Beulah Maud Devaney

Book Reviews

Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland by Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett

The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird by Jacki Hill-Murphy

Netflix and Chow

China: Fried Rice and Flavourful Origins

Hong Kong: a mildly disastrous double feature

Afghanistan: Burani Bonjon and The Breadwinner

Lebanon: Broccoli bi Jarator and West Beirut

Catawiki

The politicised escapism of Jad El Khoury

The surprisingly gruesome mythology of meteorites

The history of Spain’s most ambitious publishing project

Superfans: the money and myths surrounding Elvis memorabilia

Catawiki

How Jules Verne co-created a new literary genre

A history of philately in three stamp forgers

A history of Star Wars in three toys

A history of heavy metal in three unusual instruments

How Pilote reclaimed European comics for the French

A history of censorship in three books

What’s next for the Modern Art market?

How Napoleon’s autopsy fuelled some wild conspiracy theories

How Spider-Man proved that teenagers can also be superheroes

How millennials are changing the classic car market

Sexism makes women’s Panini stickers a surprisingly good investment

The ways online auctions are changing Street Art

Why Italy’s conservative press tried to censor the fumetti neri comics

Why you should invest in pocket watches

The unusual and experimental history of Gucci handbags

Should you invest in the Game of Thrones whiskies?

The symbolism of early 20th century Italian propaganda

The humble roots of Bordeaux’s most expensive wine

What happened to the digital Panini albums?

Book Riot

Literary Documentaries to Stream over the Holidays

21 Incredible Books based on True Stories

10 Microhistory Books to Read this Summer

Longlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Announced

14 Delicious Vegan Cookbooks You Need Right Now

10 Hilariously Funny Poems about Life and Love

8 Black British Essayists to Add to Your Bookshelves

CityMetric

Amsterdam’s council has helpfully explained that it only wants rich tourists in future

The Independent

Listen to what Muslim women in the Netherlands say about the Dutch burqa ban and you’ll realise why it won’t stop radicalisation

CityMetric

“Sad”, “limp”, “depressing” and “cowed”: the unwanted genitalia popping up all over Brussels

What does legalising cannabis do to a city?

Amsterdam just installed the world’s first retractable urinal for women and it is a Very Good Thing

Which cities would be most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse?

It’s time the UK started naming streets after feminists

Should we remove all the traffic lights from our city centres?

VICE

Remembering Brutalism: the Myspace literary movement that everyone hated

Noisey

Now That’s What I Call Menstruation: the Noisey guide to period pop

The serious and unaddressed problem of rape at British music festivals

Broadly

The sex-positive UFO religion behind Clitoraid, a controversial anti-FGM charity

Restricting abortion access is a terrible way to fix your population crisis

In Amsterdam, men wear mini-skirts on anti-rape march

The illegal, underground ballerinas of Iran

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

Loy, Mina (1882-1966)

openDemocracy

Our obsession with Harper Lee

The battle over the Feminist Library: history and community vs profit

Men campaigning against violence against women: on whose terms?

The Guardian

Amsterdam’s sex workers: the unlikely victims of gentrification

Radio Apperances

Moncrieff on NewsTalk – Iranian ballerinas

Gadgette

Does Apple have a problem with abortion? The App Store pro-life bias

The Debrief

How to knit yourself a Christmas jumper in a month

How to handle your racist family on Facebook

5 things you don’t expect to miss about having housemates

How to make the most of being home alone

openDemocracy

Women cyclists are dying, why are we still talking about their clothes?

UK emigrants caught between right-wing isolationism and Corbyn euroscepticism

The overlooked history of women against feminism

Unlimited parental leave: progress or PR coup?

How random acts of kindness could transform support for battered women

The political legacy of shame – a brief history of women, sex and legislation in the UK

CityMetric

This is why Amsterdam, Barcelona and Venice are all trying to clamp down on tourists

Raising Diemen: Amsterdam’s never ending battle against the sea

Here’s how electronic ticketing gates perpetuate inequality

Russian activists are using a community website to fight local corruption

Turns out that having a highly-skilled population doesn’t create more low-skilled jobs

In Amsterdam revenge evictions are illegal and affordable housing quotas are enforced

Gadgette

The 5 worst people to fight with on Facebook (and how to neutralise them)

4 must-read books about sexism on the internet

The Independent

So many Brits now live abroad that they’re causing immigration debates

Can the Looncup improve women’s periods?

Every evening I spend welcoming refugees reminds me how different my experience as a migrant was

Facebook’s new ‘dislike’ button shows how little it cares about the victims of online bullying

Why are most UK graduates forced into non-graduate roles?

For Generation Rent, leaving the country is the only sensible choice

Book Riot

A reading list for Carol from The Walking Dead

Books you can read in 2 hours (and books you really can’t)

Why I’m helping to fund the indie publishing revolution

Buy, Borrow, Bypass: Novels About Immigration

Reading Pathway: The Mitford Sisters

Done with Dickens: books about life in contemporary London

Literary Tourism: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The bookstore’s going out of business sale

5 authors who will inspire you to fight the system

The New Internationalist

Environmentalists 1, Dutch Government 0: The Urgenda Case

The forgotten victims of domestic violence

Twisting Amnesty’s proposal to decriminalize sex workers

Europe’s racist policing problem

Who is Geert Wilders?

What can Mad Max tell us about water scarcity?

Eight ways to help stop human trafficking in Nepal

Bed, board and deportation in the Netherlands

Netherlands’ tax hypocrisy harms Greek economy

Ravishly

Things you can do to support your local domestic violence shelter

Helpful spring cleaning advice from gothic novelist Shirley Jackson

The Telegraph

The cappuccino is disappearing? Thank God – it’s horrible

The Toast

Signs that Agatha Christie is about to murder you

How to interview a woman writer

The Huffington Post

Reaction to Jack Monroe demonstrates how women’s political views are still dismissed

Ideas Tap

Is it time to leave London?

The Guardian

Three thousand reasons to choose your reading carefully

For Books' Sake

How to have an Amazon-free Christmas

Where have all the red-headed heroines gone?

Review: Cybersexism by Laurie Penny

Review: After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry

Review: Belated by Elizabeth Russell Taylor

World Book Night 2014 (or should we say World Bollocks Night?)

Review: Moss Witch by Sara Maitland

The Guardian

Little Women’s unfortunate brothers

Why the LRB should stop cooking up excuses over lack of women reviewers

Moving stories: what do you do with your books when you change houses?

Anne Brontë: the unsung sister, who turned the gaze on men

Young Workers Month

Why even as an expat I’m paying my union subs

Ideas Tap

Coping with imposter syndrome

CityMetric

The city of Amsterdam has come up with a new way to help its refugee population

The New Internationalist

Santa’s helper is a racist caricature

Refused refugees in Amsterdam find support through social media

Buzzfeed

A beginner’s guide to contemporary feminist language

New Statesman

Girls to the front: why we need more women-friendly gigs

The Telegraph

Personal space is a priority in crowded Amsterdam

Toking and tourists in Amsterdam: Why the British need to be less excitable about weed

Battle in the bike lanes of Amsterdam

The Huffington Post

How to be a feminist on Twitter

The Feminist Times

A 2014 resolution: Adopt a feminist

The 405

Vommercial Break: Lotioned up but alone at christmas

The Guardian

Tracing Downton Abbey’s lineage: the novel that inspired a TV hit

Women, enlist men’s help in closing the gender pay gap

The Huffington Post

Why we need to stop calling Jane Austen a feminist

Pale, stale and male: literary prizes and the battle for gender equality