Culture
Review: ‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States, and the Middle East 1979-2003’ by Steve Coll
Tyrants should only be brought down by their own people; they become martyrs when brought down by foreigners.
Self-Portrait of a Stranger: A Review of Frank Auerbach’s Charcoal Portraits
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition, The Charcoal Heads, shows the early career of Frank Auerbach...
‘The Godfather: Part II’ at 50
The Godfather: Part II is a film about gangsters. It is also a film...
“Tragic but thought provoking”, ‘An Enemy of the People’: Review
Ibsen has re-entered the drama scene with the current production of his classic play...
“A Gripping Memoir”: ‘Stay True’ by Hua Hsu Review
Recently I picked up a book that had been on my to-read list for a while. Stay True by Hua Hsu came out last...
Can our individual habits solve the fast fashion problem?
It is no mystery that fast fashion is a Bad Thing. I’ve spent a lot of time in recent years thinking about fast fashion,...
“Emotionally and physically draining”: ‘A Little Life’ on West End
Ivo Van Hove’s dramatization of Hanya Yanagihara’s divisive novel A Little Life took to the West End this summer, with a brief stint at...
Manele: the controversy around Romani music in Romania
Manele is a modern form of Romani (or Roma) music in Romania. Using traditional Romani instruments and sounds, it also fuses other genres from...
“Five Lost Dads’ Descent into Nihilism”: Strike Force Five Review
With the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike now officially over, it’s time to say goodbye to the brief, joyful and surprisingly nihilistic podcast...
A walk down Magpie Lane on one winter night
Wandering nightly through the cobbled pavements of the city of dreaming spires,I could not help but notice the darkening shade of sandstone under the...
Warhol Island: Large-scale exhibition on a German island
At the meeting point of the Austrian, Swiss, and German borders lies the historic old German town of Lindau. The entirety of the old...
A24’s Rise Through the Ranks
Celine Song’s moving debut ‘Past Lives’, the most recent release for distributor and producer A24, is being showered with critical acclaim, but this sort...
Book Recommendations from the Editors’ Desk
Read our book section editors' Michaelmas book recommendations: Rufus Jones on Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon, Ananya Parakh on Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer,...
Is Shakespeare’s Globe still Relevant?
The Globe is certainly still one of the biggest and most recognisable names when it comes to theatres despite now being over 25 years...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Guts’: A Lament on Girlhood
In light of the immense success of her debut album Sour, Rodrigo's latest project, Guts, emerges as a compelling narrative continuation. This sophomore release...
A Very Short Guide to Art Gallery Dates
There are a million better ways to spend an afternoon than moping around a largely windowless building with a complete stranger and an inability...
Lost In Hugh’s: The Oxford Open Doors Festival
Over the 9th and 10th of September, dozens of colleges across Oxford opened up to the public for the Oxford Open Doors Festival. Alongside...
Fringe: “Quite absurd”, Review of Blue Dragon
“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”, says a harried wife to her brooding husband as she looks out onto a small and scattered audience in an...
