As a figure skating fan, there’s nothing that could have prepared me for the moment when I opened TikTok on the day after the Olympic Women’s Free Skate Event. The entire feed was flooded with photos, videos, and edits of the new Olympic champion – Alysa Liu. Her funky hair, gold costume, and radiant smile… Continue reading The Post-Olympic Figure Skating Boom
The MMC Team
The Apartments We Visit
How do we measure time? How do we measure moments and memories and a life lived? I keep a counter, a visual one. It is a mental list of all the apartments I have visited in my life. From my grandma’s house with the dark green oven tiles and the hidden sweets in the pantry,… Continue reading The Apartments We Visit
2026 is the new 2016
Written by Maria Francesca Ficarra In a world that increasingly feels (or rather is) one breath away from disaster, we are instinctively driven towards the idea of certainty, searching for means of escapism, and what better comfort there is than the rose-tinted memories of 2016? At the beginning of the year we witnessed a surge… Continue reading 2026 is the new 2016
The Beauty of Gore
Why Are We So Attracted to Murder Mysteries? Written by Nastassia Tsialpuk Why are we as humans so fascinated with blood-curdling stories of serial killers, and why do we derive a sort of guilty pleasure from indulging in consuming them? What kind of masochistic tendencies make us want to flip through the gruelling details of… Continue reading The Beauty of Gore
“I Hate This Album”
Written by Nia Georgieva This is surely a sentence you’ve heard flying around social media the day of the release of a new body of work by almost every renowned pop star. It is nothing new; people on the internet have been dismissive of popular artists for quite some time now. However, it feels like… Continue reading “I Hate This Album”
On Gen Z, Crises, and Politics in Art
Written by Filipp Beldushkin I am not really well-versed in the pop culture that is popular among Gen Z, even though I am part of it, so please take my analysis with a grain of salt. I believe the Western civilization is undergoing a major institutional and value crisis. The values of Gen Z and… Continue reading On Gen Z, Crises, and Politics in Art
The Quiet Resistance to Acceleration
Written by Ceylin Dogan I wake most mornings with the sense that time has already escaped me, as though the day has moved several steps ahead before I even open my eyes. The restless drum of my mind, still soft with sleep, begins listing the lectures to attend, deadlines to complete, messages to reply to,… Continue reading The Quiet Resistance to Acceleration
Nina or The Visit
Written by Larissa Straßer Out of the darkness, out of the cold, a smell of sweet wine and raisins flows towards me. Not because she’s been drinking or baking, that’s just her smell. In other texts, I’ve tried to capture her scent better, because she smells beautiful, but I’ve always just reached similar descriptions. Her… Continue reading Nina or The Visit
Why are Korean women such good writers?
Written by Livy Li After the phenomenal success of the film Kim Ji-young: Born 1982, I went to read the novel. On Japanese Goodreads, many people gave it four stars. One highly upvoted review said: “A thin book, just over a hundred pages, sparsely printed and written like a diary without any literary flair. Hardly… Continue reading Why are Korean women such good writers?
Gatekeeping, or the art of being tasteful
Written by Maria Francesca Ficarra “We need gatekeepers again – new, more diverse ones. Editors, experts. Taste isn’t a democracy, nor should it be populist. It comes from experience and exposure… Just because you eat doesn’t make you a restaurant critic.” This extract from a Substack post written by Emily Sandberg sparked a lot of… Continue reading Gatekeeping, or the art of being tasteful