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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.