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Review: Lil Peep’s ‘Hellboy’

TW: mental health and suicide In 2016, Lil Peep’s Hellboy mixtape dropped on Soundcloud. In 2017, Lil Peep died of a drug overdose. The...

Review: Bladee’s ‘333’

Bladee’s music is either airy transcendence...or the worst thing you’ve ever heard.

Comfort Films – Stand By Me

"Immature boyishness and naivety are never glamorised..."

The fourth wall: Looking beyond the lens

Beautiful, sprightly music plays as the two protagonists of Pierrot Le Fou (1965), Ferdinand and Marianne, cruise around in the countryside in a stolen...

Friday Favourite: The works of Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich’s works are not an easy read. On the face of it, they are oral histories of the Second World War, the Soviet...

In praise of formal hall

The joys of Oxford's numerous halls are worth exploring.