Issue No. 6 (Spring 2009)

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES

Life-Cycles of Men and Trees in Sonatorrek
By Michael D.J. Bintley {Ph.D, Arts & Humanities}
The meaning of trees in Old Icelandic Poetry.

Writing the Unthinkable: Narrative, the Bomb and Nuclear Holocaust
By Adam Gyngell {M.A, Arts & Humanities}
Deconstructing the atomic bomb in Riddley Walker and other narratives.

Dream Isle
By Prof. CJ Lim {Professor of Architecture & Cultural Design, The Bartlett}
A new vision of London.

'Grease and slide back into the Union': Patriotic Essentialism, the Civil War and Postbellum Reunification
By Adam Thomas {M.A, Social & Historical Sciences}
Re-examining the American Civil War.

'I killed him for money': The American Dream in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity
By Adam Thomas {M.A, Social & Historical Sciences}
Exploring the dark side of the American Dream.

Stereotyping and Societal-Reinforcement: A Barrier to Achieving Social Equality
By Shona Melissa Tritt {M.Sc, Life Sciences}
The psychology behind prejudice.

CREATIVE WORK

I Wanted to See All of the News From Today
By Martin John Callanan {Artist in Residence, UCL Environmental Institute}

With commentary by Greg J. Smith

COMMENTARIES & RESEARCH NOTES

The Bloomsbury Project
By Prof. Rosemary Ashton {Quain Professor of English Literature, Arts & Humanities}
Understanding Bloomsbury.

Translational Research at UCL
By Stephen M. Fleming {Ph.D, Life Sciences}
Summarizing life-changing medical science.

Home or Away
By Emma Kelly {BA, Arts & Humanities}
Recounting life in Barcelona.

The Triumph of Tutu
By Emma Kelly {BA, Arts & Humanities}
Inspirational ideas from Desmond Tutu.

Bloomsbury People
By Dr Carole Reeves {Outreach Historian, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine}
Blogging about the people of Bloomsbury.

Obama and the American Project
By Dr Adam I. P. Smith {Senior Lecturer in U.S. History, Social & Historical Sciences}
Addressing Obama's Inaugural and the future of America.