Brian Bowe rounds up the the best hidden gems to come out of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, taking place from May 13 to 24, 2025 ...

Thomas Caffrey recently finished his PhD at the School of English, Dublin City University. His doctoral research examined the reception of Haruki Murakami’s fictions in the anglophone world. Thomas ...

Laskarina Bouboulina was born in chains, both figuratively and (in a way) literally. She was conceived during one of her mother’s conjugal visits to her father in a prison in Istanbul and was born ...

Change is the only constant, and the only thing we can be sure of that will happen. We all face many changes daily – whether it’s a change in schedule or a change in weather, we all deal with changes ...

In the Winter 2015 issue of the The Stinging Fly Billy Ramsell invited poets to write what Ramsell called souterrains- a kind of layer below, an archaeology of the poems that would feature in the ...

A friend of mine recently said that The Marvels felt like it had been written by an AI Although I personally liked the movie, it was obvious that my friend wasn’t being complimentary. The implication ...

The best Weezer songs aren’t just the hits you already know—they’re also hiding in weird albums, awkward comebacks, and chaotic experiments. With a Blue Album movie on the way, now’s the perfect time ...

2021, like any year in recorded history, was a weird one. But it’s certainly one of the weirdest in recent memory. A pandemic that was supposed to end didn’t. Billionaires that could cure world hunger ...

Another year, another list. Here at HeadStuff we’ve taken a simple approach to the selection process—just picking our own personal favourites. There were some close calls and a few artists can count ...

As a working neuroscience researcher, I know that we still understand very little about how the brain works as a whole. Modern neuroscience, as we know it today, sprouted from psychology, with big ...

Drummers are often the underdogs in a band, and they don’t get the spotlight as often as they deserve, even though their playing is the backbone of every song, every performance. Even when you look at ...

James Croal Jackson (he/him) has a chapbook, The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017), and poems in Pacifica, Good Works Review, and indefinite space. He edits The Mantle Poetry ...