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Book Club Review: Improper Tales By Saki

Jack Dempsey
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A week ago, I dealt with a novel among whose characters numbered one improperly termed a ‘monster’. Now I want to look at a whole cluster of monsters that populate an improper collection; monsters, grotesques and sycophants that populate the Improper Stories of Hector Hugh Munro, or Saki.  These stories are all like fairy tales. Seemingly simple, but with subtext […]
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A Newbie’s Guide To K-Pop

Laura Kelly
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Have you listened to every song in the charts and found nothing you enjoy? Have you ever spent hours in a music store only to leave empty handed and yearning for something new? Something that you may or may not even understand the lyrics of? Then it’s about time you tried K-Pop, my friend! In […]
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A Newbie's Guide To K-Pop

Laura Kelly
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Have you listened to every song in the charts and found nothing you enjoy? Have you ever spent hours in a music store only to leave empty handed and yearning for something new? Something that you may or may not even understand the lyrics of? Then it’s about time you tried K-Pop, my friend! In […]
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Planning for Gamescom 2015

Shane-James Purcell
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It’s been nearly a year since Gamescom 2014 closed its doors and it’s only two more months until 2015 opens its doors again. I was lucky enough to attend the mayhem last year, so now I’m going to pass down how to get the best of Gamescom to any of you thinking of attending. Gamescom itself […]
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Book Club Review: Frankenstein

Jack Dempsey
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Last time, the subject of The Arcade’s weekly Book Club Review was a work that focused on a man’s life through chemistry. This week’s book is a work that speculates that the natural sciences (‘natural philosophy’ as it was known) might create life: Frankenstein. It is, of course, a book that is as well-known as it is misunderstood: many think […]
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Book Club Review: The Periodic Table

Jack Dempsey
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As Primo Levi‘s most famous work If This Is a Man (published in the US under the title Survival in Auschwitz) provided a vision of internment by the Third Reich, it is unsurprising that the text is often described by way of superlatives. Yet, it is The Periodic Table that Saul Bellow described as, “A book it is necessary to read” […]
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