“Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people’s.”  – (Hermione – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.) I’m sure it’s not just me who’s noticed the huge amount of phallic imagery in the Harry Potter series. It’s [...]

Set in Roman London, the story’s protagonist is Zuleika, the rebellious only-daughter of immigrants from the Sudan. At a young age, she is married off to a wealthy merchant old enough to be her father, and then left to her own devices in her ‘gilded cage’ when he goes away on business. Life seems hollow [...]

Have you ever been confused when buying a book online thanks to all of the peculiar abbreviations and terminology? I know that I certainly have, and it’s a source of irritation when I have to go traipsing around the Internet in order to find out what each thing actually means. Because of this, I have [...]

I wanted to wrap this all up by putting together some thoughts and ideas. Personal experiences are peppered throughout the article but some final musings are called for. I never thought in a million years that I would become a review writer. It was a need for some kind of “process” for a small portion [...]

Have you ever been confused when buying a book online thanks to all of the peculiar abbreviations and terminology? I know that I certainly have, and it’s a source of irritation when I have to go traipsing around the Internet in order to find out what each thing actually means. Because of this, I have [...]

Well, as of yesterday, I.Q. is officially going to be around for the next two years. Yes dear readers, it was that time of year when I had to renew the domain name. I think it should be seen as a token of continuing enthusiasm and optimism that I opted to claim the domain name [...]

After being a member of the technical crew for a performance of this piece of drama, I was intrigued enough by what I saw to buy a copy of the script so that I could peruse the writing in a more leisurely manner. Having only read one of the Sherlock Holmes stories all the way [...]

After just watching the BAFTA’s, and now looking ahead to this summer’s blockbuster films, you might notice there’s something quite literary about the movies this year. From The Lovely Bones to A Single Man, from the next Harry Potter to the next Twilight film (cringes) – (I feel your pain – Editor), if you thought [...]

Genre: Science Fiction (3rd in a series) Basic Plot: It’s been quite a while since the first drop landed on the planet of Bontany. The humans, Deski, Rugarians and the sole Catteni alike were managing to live in relative peace, especially with the protective ‘bubble’ around the planet, placed there by the mysterious ‘farmers’. Then [...]

I don’t usually make a point of reviewing ‘academic’ books for a set of very good reasons. I guess the main of which is the fact that I doubt any of my readers would particularly want to read about some obscure critical theory that was written up decades ago. But upon reading a critical theory [...]