Here they come now. Edie, Jane, Nico: how pretty their names look in the headlines. See them run now. See their time run out. Never mind fifteen minutes of materiality when the myth of Warhol’s Superstar lives on.
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Jayna Rohslau is the Arts and Culture Editor and is currently in her Senior Fresh year studying English in the Dual BA
Final girls soundtrack
Seasoned finals veterans Ciara, Ciana and Jayna provide words of wisdom and listening recommendations
Days like these, we agonise over our exams all day and all night. Or at least we do in theory, but your editors will be the first to admit that it can be difficult to focus when the daylight hours …
The Butterfly Garden of Icarus
Jayna Rohslau navigates her way through the poetics of the Icarus launch party
Romance is dead and we couldn’t care less. After all, his funeral is the party of the year. Icarus, the social butterfly among Trinity College’s publications, officiated this celebration. We may have encountered heartbreak, grief, and unpleasant commutes in the …
How to build a Hanok
Jayna Rohslau interprets the second issue release for Korean literary journal The Hanok Review assembled in collaboration with Korean Soc, Lit Soc and DU Languages
How to unlock the poetics of space: first, commence the battle between upstairs and downstairs. Upon entering the GMB, I was confronted with a host of nerds anxiously clutching wine glasses. Realising I had made an error, I naturally ran …
Translucent feelings
Jayna Rohslau speaks to author Yan Ge on writing her first short story collection in English, online stalking David Foster Wallace and the realities of being a foreigner in Dublin
While at Trinity, I have enjoyed my English classes while simultaneously being frustrated by a lack of nuance in racial discourse. Reading Langston Hughes, it turns out it is hard to be black. Reading Aphra Behn, it turns out it …
The new vampires of Trinity College Dublin
Jayna Rohslau proposes equivalents to Trinity alum Bram Stoker’s Dracula encapsulating our current student anxieties
“I’m in da trees/watchin’ you sleep” the picture of Edward from Twilight declared causing the entire English lecture theatre to burst into laughter. Yet lingering in the back, I was not quite so joyous but full of a heavy sense …
Stages along life’s way
Jayna Rohslau interviews Booker shortlisted alum Paul Murray on social performativity, Kierkegaard and finding your authentic self through literature
Although our culture claims to celebrate individuality, this sentiment is about as genuine as the latest Players production. While the narrative of acceptance may appear true to life – if you squint – the arts block uniform and drinking culture …
Killing Mr Rochester
Jayna Rohslau interviews NYT-bestselling author Betsy Cornwell on the necessity of the act and why we’re living in a gothic world
When we are young, we believe in the powerful import of fairy tales. Good triumphs over evil, knights are paragons of virtue, and powerful women are, more often than not, hideous witches emblazoned with warts. At the age of six, …
New National Women’s Museum to be considered by Government as committee on gender imbalances within the arts is announced
Potential measures undertaken by the committee include the establishment of a women’s museum and revising the National Collection
Last week, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Catherine Martin today announced her plans to establish a new committee advising on gender imbalances within the arts.
Speaking at the National Gallery of Ireland, Minister Martin explained how …
When Icarus soars
Jayna Rohslau chats with editors Charlotte Moore and Eloise Rodger on their plans for Trinity’s premier literary & arts magazine
When the poet William Carlos Williams said: “When Icarus fell / it was spring”, he was dead wrong. In fact, Ireland’s oldest literary magazine drops their first issue in the autumn. Meeting the editors of Icarus for our conversation, we …