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  - What Good Are The Arts?, by Kyra Smith
    Kyra Smith wrestles with the unanswerables of John Carey's What Good Are the Arts.
  - The Worst Romance I Have Ever Read, by Kyra Smith
    Kyra Smith's love of genre fiction turns sour.
  - Great Minds Five-A-Side Football, by Kyra Smith
    This is the game that got a dear friend and I through our final exams, by which I mean the game that made us waste an inordinate amount of time that could have been spent getting hysterical or doing some work (or both). It's a sick menage a trois between Mornington Crescent, Fantasy Football and a Balloon Debate.
  - Literary Top Trumps, by Kyra Smith
    Maybe it's the glimmer of Xmas on the horizon but top trumps are everywhere these days. I'm just waiting for top trumps top trumps. But, hey, as long as there's a bandwagon I'll jump on it. Therefore, it is with no ceremony whatsoever that I unveil Literary Top Trumps. I'll endeavour to create additional cards for the deck every issue. Who knows, there may even be a playable game at the end of it, although it seems unlikely.
  - Clairevoyant Review, by Claire E Fitzgerald
    Claire Fitzgerald offers us the (surprisingly familiar) cultural highlights of the month of October, 2011. Remember, you read it here first!
  - Neverwinter Nights 2: First Impressions, by Daniel Hemmens
    Daniel Hemmens tears himself away from his laptop for just long enough to share his first impressions of the most talked-about CRPG since Oblivion.
  - Rage Rage Against the Dying of the Lite, by Cassie
    A response to this opinion piece, published in the Guardian on Friday 3 November.
  - The Devil's in "The Devil Wears Prada", by Natalie B
    A review of a film about a wannabe writer with style issues, by a wannabe writer with style issues.
  - NWN 2: Under the Influence, by Daniel Hemmens
    Daniel Hemmens continues to do nothing but play Neverwinter Nights and shares his thoughts on the Influence Mechanics and choice in RPGs.
  - Sex and the City - A Response, by Kyra Smith
    Kyra Smith ventures into the realm of chicklit and wishes she hadn't.
  - NaNoWriMo Virgin Chronicles: Week 0 - The Anticipation, by Natalie B
    A chance for a NaNoWriMo virgin to procrastinate from both working and writing to let you all know a bit about the experience.
  - Another Language, by Guy
    Guy Hungerford looks at the world of interactive fiction using Inform 7.
  - A Cultural History of Historic Internet Culture, by Claire E Fitzgerald
    Claire E. Fitzgerald is teh rox0r.
  - The History Boys - Review, by Kyra Smith
    In the most uninspired blurb she has written yet, Kyra Smith reviews the recently released film of The History Boys.
  - A Guide To Bangladesh, Part 1: Getting Here, by Rami Chowdhury
    Rami Chowdhury takes a deeply ironic look at his home country
  - Never Let Me Go, by Guy
    Guy reviews Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. The editor really must work on her blurbs.
  - The Prestige - review, by Kyra Smith
    Kyra Smith watches closely.
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