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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They took me, the women of the house, wrapped my wart ravaged hands in beads and bandages, drove me to Clonmore, placed me on my knees, hands in a pool of slime-green water, down granite steps at the ...

Bugsy aged 22, in a police mugshot. As was usually the case when he was arrested, the charges didn’t stick. Bugsy Siegel, as he hated being called, was born Benjamin Siegel in New York in 1906. His ...