<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[the-crob.org]]></title><description><![CDATA[the-crob.org]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 13:21:01 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Counterexample]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1969, I was twenty-one years old and still missed England.]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/counterexample</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68889a0ee2fb1aad7072d0da</guid><category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:50:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e5258f_a35ade9cd1144616966981e61ae8acb1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Oisin Kim</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer to Hunger and Frogs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The tadpoles have stars 
in their bellies.]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/prayer-to-hunger-and-frogs</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68889882cdafbce2b19bbe65</guid><category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:20:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e5258f_88a046e5df6743a1997305eaed6f98f2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Benedetta Mancusi</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Coming of Age alongside Autism – a reflection on representation in visual media’.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Growing up in an unconventional family dynamic, I found that movies have always played an important role in my life.]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/coming-of-age-alongside-autism-a-reflection-on-representation-in-visual-media</link><guid isPermaLink="false">687c22d17a5bc82a935c69d2</guid><category><![CDATA[Essays & Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:43:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e5258f_4651062946b6421796bae248883b55cf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jasmine Eden Gray</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming of Age in the Land of the Free]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is an intricate meditation on story, witness, and the triumph of good over evil among the travails of diaspora and assimilation. ]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/coming-of-age-in-the-land-of-the-free</link><guid isPermaLink="false">687c269c7a5bc82a935c715c</guid><category><![CDATA[Essays & Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:38:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e5258f_5de1e441a530488ba01302505556ad66~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Klarica</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I saw her one last time. She didn’t see me.’ On queer gazes and gender representation in cinema]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I reflect on growing up queer, though it may sound laughable, I find that Luca Guadanigno’s Call Me By Your Name (2017) feels almost intertwined with my own coming out. ]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/i-saw-her-one-last-time-she-didn-t-see-me</link><guid isPermaLink="false">687c21497a5bc82a935c66c5</guid><category><![CDATA[Essays & Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:05:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e5258f_d7a480652ccf4b46bc90a996a72c75c9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bryony Clarke</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature of the Flip]]></title><description><![CDATA[The phrase had legs. “The Flip,” capital-F: Coined by Dolly Alderton in her 2024 bestseller Good Material, it flew across the public consciousness by way of TikTok, tabloid media, and womanly word-of-mouth.]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/literature-of-the-flip</link><guid isPermaLink="false">681dc1554d6b292c385a1cdd</guid><category><![CDATA[Essays & Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 08:55:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6dd8a3_2902123c6de54e2983d194af3e73e49f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Haley Zimmerman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Premise, Pi, Playfulness and the Polymath]]></title><description><![CDATA[In August 2024, a young boy stood in the Museo Interattivo Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Italy, his face awash with awe. ]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/premise-pi-playfulness-and-the-polymath</link><guid isPermaLink="false">681862d9f0457602a0feab78</guid><category><![CDATA[Essays & Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 07:14:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6dd8a3_d28853789fef408fa300be63dc0637e1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_892,h_621,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Oliver Johnson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sketches of Spain ]]></title><description><![CDATA[This poem was written in response to a prompt, chosen by the Cambridge University JazzSoc: 'Sketches of Spain', the Miles Davis album.]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/crob-x-jazzsoc-sketches-of-spain</link><guid isPermaLink="false">680ea8a37302aaa8bd8b0402</guid><category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:05:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6dd8a3_6d95fa50422049a7b6f8a8e61f0355dd~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jack Heath</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrested Development]]></title><description><![CDATA[‘That Bitch is dead!’ Dee Gyp Blancharde, the shared Facebook account of mother and daughter, Clauddine “Dee Dee” and Gypsy-Rose Blanchard,]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/arrested-development</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67e2a88f21a7b44b35f0fef8</guid><category><![CDATA[Essays & Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:04:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6dd8a3_33d13089796a4ce593b6e9ec443e32e6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mia Walby</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Leaving the Archive and Wading Into the Sea: Ice and jellyfish at the end of the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am eleven. 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Sean Penn’s Into the...]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/into-the-wild-notes-on-a-tragic-return-to-nature</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6601f3f26b386786f962a425</guid><category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Artist Spotlight]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:25:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6dd8a3_47b0887fc3074cdeb2b718343f05bf22~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_846,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Max Knowles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Alchemy of Translation: In Conversation with Rosie Eyre ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I caught up with Rosie Eyre. 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Wilson Poetry Fellow at the Cambridge Faculty of English and a Bye Fellow at Murray Edwards...]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/in-conversation-with-mary-jean-chan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65d8bbdae9c2dc2fc095d3f9</guid><category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:00:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6dd8a3_4506290cde5644279a18a84e1b6f51e0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_647,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Hope Nicholson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-Portrait As Othello, by Jason Allen-Paisant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jason Allen-Paisant, a poet and professor of decolonial thought and aesthetic theory at Leeds University, released his second collection...]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/self-portrait-as-othello-by-jason-allen-paisant</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b68d898c4d6beb848eb11c</guid><category><![CDATA[Essays & Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:35:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6dd8a3_9a242a5c9aeb487289ccf71aa8d03ff3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Miraya McCoy Palmer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukrainian Requiem: Olha Kobylianska’s Pioneering Modernism]]></title><description><![CDATA[The following is a translation of the dramatic conclusion to Olha Kobylianska’s 1894 novella Valse mélancolique. Kobylianska was born in...]]></description><link>https://crobpublishing.wixsite.com/mysite/post/ukrainian-requiem-olha-kobylianska-s-pioneering-modernism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">659be03acfc5308ce75b8b0a</guid><category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Artist Spotlight]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:04:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6dd8a3_22d3f5e56f95464faefae14d8cb4de96~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_455,h_599,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jasper Maughan</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>