Sam Sykes
On the 11th March 2011 at 14:46 JST, an earthquake struck Japan off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, in...
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William Aslet
The English National Opera, London’s second opera company, is in crisis. Earlier this year, its Music Director, Mark Wigglesworth, quit...
James Riding
Splendour is a play which delights in being enigmatic. Written by Abi Morgan, screenwriter of Suffragette and The Iron Lady,...
Rob Pepper
There’s a party in my mouth and only one genre of music is playing. Also no-one else is invited, that...
David Parton
So I’m a vegetarian. Great! But that’s about it really: I don’t eat meat. I’m not particularly excited by the...
Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe
When I look back at my Hilary term last year, it was nothing short of dull. The excitement of freshers’...
Rob Pepper
My kitchen in college measures two metres by one metre, barely enough room to swing a decent sized rodent, let...
Daniel Haynes
Jayne Wilton has spent the last decade exploring the act of breathing, collaborating variously with particle physicists to capture the...
Sam Sykes
As I stand in the queue for the Tate’s multisensory experiment, I feel a mixture of exhilaration and apprehension. I...
Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill
Although I was asked to write on a fictional character I secretly wish was real, I unashamedly confess that not...
William Shaw
A few months ago I was browsing the Sunday Times bestseller lists, and was shocked to discover that The Communist...
William Shaw
Even with his last book now six years in the past, David Nicholls has been keeping busy. Since the publication...
Marcus Li
A funny German writer? What on earth do you mean? Yes, but that is why I fell in love with...
Alexander Hartley
Sonia Delaunay’s work crackles with the electric charge of modernity. Hers is a world of garish streetlights, Paris ballrooms, high-speed...
Francesca Rogers
Tracey Emin’s art has brought her notoriety in the form of violently divided opinion: she is regarded as provocative, attention-seeking,...
William Shaw
Kitchen, the English-language debut of Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto, like the most of the books I buy these days (perpetually...
Claudia Zwar
Linda Nochlin, in her 1988 book Women, Art and Power and Other Essays, asks, “Why are there no great female...
Samantha Spooner
A cappella is a genre that has been much in vogue recently, most notably with the success of the American musical...
Samantha Spooner
As I stumble out of the urban swirl, through the usual madding crowds of tourists, into the British Museum’s new...
