A recent intern at Vogue House reveals the world of fashion is not as glamorous as one might imagine…
Category: Features
THE SPIN DOCTOR
Rachel O’Brien has the dubious pleasure of meeting BNP press officer, Phil Edwards.
THE INFLUENTIAL TYPE
Blogger and author, Tim Worstall on the revolution in Blogistan.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Anthony Loyd is a war correspondent for the The Times. He talks to Alice Fordham of his experiences in Bosnia, his concurrent problem with heroin addiction and his struggle to cope with normal life after the war ended.
SNAKE’S PROGRESS
In its twenty year history, Serpent’s Tail has consistently published writers from outside the literary mainstream. With Elfreid Jelinek picking up the Nobel Prize in 2004 and Lionel Shriver scooping the Orange prize last year for We Need to Talk About Kevin, founder Pete Ayrton can be confident that the risks he has taken have paid off.
PRESSED FOR CHOICE
Tom Wipperman considers how multiculturalism should be reflected on the newsstands.
HAZLITT THE HACK
Laura Keynes reflects on the life of a nineteenth century hack…
THE NAKED TRUTH
Truth and identity are inseparable for Benjamin Zephaniah, and as the title ‘Naked’ would suggest, it is a sense of truth that he is trying to uncover and unclothe. ‘I’m trying to strip myself down and just be as open and honest as I can’, he explains.
IMMORTAL NON-KOMBAT: IN CONVERSATION WITH THE DALAI LAMA
“A sense of compassion and the oneness of the entire humanity are values that you can reach without religion as such, and I think these are the basis of values that will bring about a happier humanity” says the Dalai Lama.
What Price Paradise?
Set against the background of the violence in occupied Palestine, Paradise Now sketches the lives of two young men who find themselves on the front line of the Palestinian resistance movement, for very different reasons, and with very different consequences.