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27 Oct

Why the cool girl great thing about Dazed and

Why the cool girl great thing about Dazed and
30 years on from the coming-of-age film’s release, the senior girls look as effortlessly cool as ever. To have fun the landmark anniversary, we unpack the enduring appeal of the 70s styles Has any film so perfectly captured the unreachable yet relatable coolness of the older girls in school quite like Dazed and Confused did? Of their tube socks and ‘senior’ sweatshirts, yelling “air raid” and covering the freshman girls in flour and ketchup. Discussing the male pornographic fantasy at the guts of Gilligan’s Island while touching up their make-up and smoking in the toilet. Cruising around after dark with their friends, on the lookout for beer, boys and parties. The senior girls of...
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29 Mar

The Virgin Suicides at 30: why the novel resonates

The Virgin Suicides at 30: why the novel resonates
Jeffrey Eugenides’ debut novel stays probably the most astute and sensitive portrayals of sweet sixteen suicide ever written – how did he get it so right? Jeffrey Eugenides’ debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published 30 years ago this week, on 1 April 1993. The story, now revered as a contemporary classic, follows the five Lisbon sisters living in a leafy Michigan suburb in the course of the Nineteen Seventies. Because the title suggests, the ladies grow increasingly isolated by the actions of their draconian mother, and eventually all commit suicide. It’s narrated by a chorus of the neighbourhood’s boys – now men – who remain fascinated by the tragedy, a long time...
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