Entertainment·21st November 2017Would Rembrandt have approved of Pollock?: Mockery in the contemporary art industry Lucinda Kirk Contemporary, abstract art is either appreciated or mocked. Picture yourself in a reputable art gallery, surrounded by timeless, priceless High... 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
Entertainment·28th April 2017Here is why you shouldn’t read this book Madeleine Davies-Brown Since 13 Reasons Why launched as a Netflix adaptation, the story of a teenage girl’s suicide and the subsequent blame-game... Read More
Entertainment·15th January 2017Review: Juliet Heslewood’s ‘The Lover Captured’ Minjie Su Juliet Heslewood is an independent art historian who believes that pictures can be read; for her, a painting provides as... Read More
Entertainment·7th June 2016John Finnemore: Interview Hetty Mosforth Did you always want to write comedy or did you have other childhood ambitions? I was quite serious about being... Read More
Entertainment·16th May 2016Review: The Blade Artist Felix White-Thomson I was lucky enough to see Irvine Welsh speak at the Cambridge Literary Festival a few weeks ago. Now based... Read More
Entertainment·28th April 2016Happy Birthday Shakespeare Sophie Taylor On the 22nd April, up and down the country we celebrated the birth of our beloved bard, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare... Read More
Entertainment·24th April 2016Book Review: The Well by Catherine Chanter Sophie Taylor Ruth and her husband Mark leave London after he is accused of watching child porn, hoping to find peace in... Read More
Entertainment·20th November 2017Hannah Ryggen, Trump, and the role of media Nikita Aggarwal If just one image epitomizes Trump’s recently concluded tour of Asia, it will be this one: a photo that captures... Read More
Entertainment·21st August 2017Poetry review: ‘milk and honey’ by Rupi Kaur OxStu Arts ‘milk and honey’, Kaur’s debut poetry collection, is one of few commercially popular works of poetry in recent years. This... Read More
Entertainment·28th April 2017Review: Selection Day Sree Ayyar A derisive critique of one of India’s greatest pastimes – cricket – and a powerful satire that deconstructs the deep-rooted... Read More
Entertainment·15th January 2017Review: ‘City on Fire’ by Garth Risk Hallberg Ella Holden Relentless, unique and wildly engaging, City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg is an epic character study set in 1970s... Read More
Entertainment·7th June 2016Book Review: High Rise Sophie Taylor J.G.Ballard’s High Rise tells the story of the residents of a luxurious forty-storey high-rise. They begin acting out petty grievances... Read More
Entertainment·16th May 2016Poem: Runaway Prose Beth Chaplow All she left you was fragments Of broken prose, a fleeting note of Emotion, as she ran out of your... Read More
Entertainment·28th April 2016The Best of Brontë Hetty Mosforth While the 400th anniversary of Shakepeare’s death has received a lot of attention recently, Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday has been... Read More
Entertainment·24th April 2016Short Story: Freshet Alexandra Illingworth It’s winter when he goes back to Oxford – perhaps it’s been winter since he left – and they meet... Read More