Review: The Artist’s Way
This is both a book review and a book recommendation. Julia Cameron’s book - The Artist’s Way - is the perfect book to pick...
Editors’ picks – Life and Culture in the Time of Covid-19
Our CultCher and Life section editors have pooled their wide-ranging knowledge and have produced their picks for shows, albums, movies, books and lifestyle ideas...
Pick up a Book! Rekindling a Love Affair
I will rekindle the love affair with reading that I left behind when I came to Oxford.
Comfort Reading in the Time of Covid-19
David Nicholls
If rom-coms are the most comforting type of movie, then David Nicholls writes the most comforting type of novel. He is best known...
‘and all manner of things shall be well’
Jack Glynne-Jones explores how T.S. Eliot provides solace in periods of stress
‘Find Me’ Expands Romance and Falls Flat
Find Me is the October 2019 sequel to André Aciman’s 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name, which was popularised by the success of its 2017 movie adaptation. As a much anticipated...
Ten Politically Inspired Books to Read in 2020
The last three years of politics are enough to make a person want to do some Malcolm Tucker-esque screaming into the void. You can’t...
The Skywalker ‘Saga’
The following article is Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Spoiler-free.
In the several weeks leading up to the release of the newest Star Wars...
Who’s afraid of Derrida?
This article is a complaint to my academic discipline, English literature. It is, not to overstate the matter, one of my great loves, but...
Metamorphosis, Money, and Moldovan ice cream
It’s probably unsurprising that while The Guardian hails Ian McEwan’s latest novella as a “comic triumph”, it is dismissed by The Telegraph as “an...
Whose Revolution? The winners, the losers and the left behind
Two clear streams run through Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing– a gut-wrenching tale of intersecting lives at the centre of the Troubles: that of revolution...
ATWOOD RETURNS TO GILEAD
It is difficult to sanitise Atwood’s new venture. In fact, it is difficult to put into words at all the violence of the novel....
‘The Lost Properties of Love’ by Sophie Ratcliffe
'treads a fine line between a deeply personal memoir [...] and an academic exploration'
Philosophy in the Bookshop – Nigel Warburton in Conversation with Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf talks of book blunder and her ties to Oxford.
