The Twilight Zone episode "The Masks," directed by Ida Lupino, explores what would happen if a person's inner ugliness were ...

Impostor syndrome was first described in 1978 by the psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes. It is now such a common phenomenon that organisations all across the world run seminars and ...

In the 150 years since he created them, the joyful botanical prints of the Victorian artist, poet and socialist activist ...

Single-shaming customs were especially prevalent in Munster with the 'Skellig Lists' mocking, teasing and insulting unmarried people ...

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Special glee was taken in teasing policemen: Miss Seward, a ‘maid of swinish race’, rides on a pig to the Skelligs alongside ‘a peeler big,/Mounted on a brother ass.’ There could be a ...

Few readers of Literary Review, I fear, will have benefited from the remarkable education in life provided by the hit 1980s cartoon series ThunderCats. Those who did will instantly recall the central ...