Entertainment·21st November 2017125 years of Sherlock Holmes: remembering Conan Doyle’s legend Rosemary Smart Conan Doyle did not want to be remembered as the man who created Sherlock Holmes: this seems unfortunate, perhaps, when... Read More
Entertainment·21st November 2017Poetry review: the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur Juliet Garcia Rupi Kaur’s debut collection ‘milk and honey’ liberated poetry from the archaism of regulated metre and stuffy subject matter. Her... Read More
Entertainment·21st November 2017Oil paintings and iPhone photos: is Instagram the new still life? Tony Wilkes It’s mid-June. I’ve just sat my A-levels, and have been whisked away on a family holiday to the world’s cultural... Read More
Entertainment·4th November 20178 fast facts about the 2017 Venice Biennale Ace the numbers This is already the 57th Venice Biennale. This year, the exhibition has 120 invited artists (85% first-time... Read More
Entertainment·4th November 2017Book review: Stay With Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò Abigail Eardley Without even knowing the plot of Stay With Me, the Baileys-longlisted novel, the first scene acts as a precursor for... Read More
Entertainment·4th November 201720 years of Harry Potter: the series for everyone Rosie Good In late June this year, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter turned 20 years old. Just as some of the books’ earliest... Read More
Entertainment·22nd October 2017Non-fiction: where the truth really is stranger and more daring Abbigail Colwyn Non-fiction often gets a bad reputation: Lacking in adventure and escapism. Educating rather than entertaining. Being outright dull. Many denounce... Read More
Entertainment·9th October 2017Radio Adaptations Ramani Chandramohan At the start of the summer, radio dramas were an unknown phenomenon to me, as they most likely still are... Read More
Entertainment·9th October 2017Review: ‘History of Wolves’ by Emily Fridlund Abigail Eardley Wolves, even since the Anglo-Saxon period, have always been symbolic of humanity’s deepest anxieties. Representing the unexplained, lurking on... Read More
Entertainment·23rd September 2017Post-Documenta 14, what happens now? Jessie Palmer Since Documenta 14 departed from Athens in mid-July, there has been little done to support the foundations laid by this... Read More