Entertainment·9th March 2016The Bride of Amman – Gender and Sexuality in the Arab World Lea Cohen Tanugi-Carresse In 2012, the Jordanian novelist and activist Fadi Zaghmout published his first novel, The Bride of Amman, dealing with the... Read More
Entertainment·16th February 2016Turl Street Arts Festival: ‘DECADES’ Rosie Collier Ankita Saxena is a second year English student at Jesus College, and is president of this year’s Turl Streets Arts... Read More
Entertainment·25th January 2016The Value of Art Rosie Collier Throughout school peers and some teachers never considered me as ‘intelligent’ as ‘brainy’ but I was ‘creative’, and ‘artistic’. There’s... Read More
Entertainment·25th January 2016Short Story: The Berth of Hell by Varlam Shalamov Felix White-Thompson Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982) is probably the best-known Gulag writer after Solzhenitsyn, spending twelve years in labour camps. He wrote lots... Read More
Entertainment·18th January 2016Student poetry: Sonder Beth Chaplow Please don’t think I’m crazy but There were stalwarts on street corners And grass stains on your jeans I knew... Read More
Entertainment·18th January 2016Review of Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Natasha Burton Ironic, perhaps, that Vincent van Gogh spurned fame in 1882, reflecting that: “I’ve never felt a desire (and I... Read More
Entertainment·18th January 2016Book Review: The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett Charlotte Lanning A thought-provoking read that will resonate with many and serve as a source of comfort when it feels like everything... Read More
Entertainment·18th January 2016The top 5 science fiction stories of 2015 William Shaw It is an important and oft-lamented fact that students never have time for pleasure reading. Between deadlines, social lives and... Read More
Entertainment·25th November 2015Revisiting The Bell Jar Rosalie Wells Sylvia Plath is the woman that I’m embarrassed to write about in my degree in case I’m judged as a... Read More
Entertainment·25th November 2015Review: Social Class in the 21st Century James Riding “Class distinctions in England have always been the matter for higher feeling than national honour, the matter of feverish but... Read More
Entertainment·10th November 2015Review: Slade House Daniel Haynes Released barely a year after his previous novel, Slade House is simultaneously vintage David Mitchell and unlike anything he has... Read More