With Halloween coming up soon, this week I browsed the comics and graphic novels section on my App and checked out an e-book called Notes on a Case of Melancholia, or: A Little Death. This humorous ...

When I sat down to read Kat Chow's debut memoir Seeing Ghosts, I expected a meditation on what it means to live a life shot through with grief. After all, the central ghost the title refers to is Chow ...

With eight words, Danish director Lars von Trier earned himself a place in film history: "How can I get out of this sentence?" The statement came last May in the middle of his debacle of a Cannes ...

Melancholia of Class, the new book by Cynthia Cruz, is manifestly about class and class conflict. Even the title puts the aftermaths of class war, a term so powerfully passé, at the centre stage.