January 2021 issue

In the theme of our prior Maximalism issue, Mateusz Gerszberg claims the maximalist mantra of embracing excess continues to be seen in...

Her brown opal eyes gazing into mine, haldi stains on her hands Amla oil coating every thick hair strand, perfumes of her ancestors...

Who would I be without the choices I’ve made? What if there was another person that I may have been, had I chosen the road untaken, the...

by Eira Engedal, Head of Design, Clare Market Review.

An exploration of representations of the past in Shia LaBeouf & Alma Har’el’s ‘Honey Boy’ and Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Pain and Glory’. What is...

When writing about photography, Susan Sontag (1977) writes that “a photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a...

Emma is a lover of pocket-size books and confusing art. She is currently sipping coffee and looking at a tree.

And here it is! Our cover for Clare's Spring/Summer 2020 issue, Nostalgia. This piece by Alanah Sarginson carefully captures the notions...

Jo Euteneier is a creative person completing an MSc at the LSE in political theory. They still endorse writing and doodling on a...

A soundtrack to nostalgia. Find the playlist on Spotify here. "I wanted to create a playlist that would not only be reminiscent of...

"When I first think about nostalgia, it comes to me, all the different moments ... bad and good ones. Sometimes, when I look back, I...

Photography by Emma Zemlickova Emma is a second-year student at the LSE who finds simple joy in taking pictures of the friends,...

‘Mureng’ is the only word I remember from the first language I learned as a child. It means ‘dirty laundry’. My mother taught it to me as...

And from the thunderous gale that has erupted inside this new reality comes an overbearing silence that weighs down on my tired...

Jack Bissett, Contributing Editor

"By the time our submissions closed, the term nostalgia itself was thrown into turmoil"