Mila Ottevanger
America: The Exhibition? The Resounding Banality of the 2021 Met Gala
Mila Ottevanger explores the less than triumphal return about the Oscars of fashion, and what the lackluster exhibition and red carpet say about the...
Review: Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘If We Make It Through December’ EP
Coming off the post-apocalyptic scream that concluded Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers’ 2020 album (my favourite album this year, and possibly ever), the muted buzz of...
Review: Kali Uchis’ ‘Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞’
As any even casual listener of Kali Uchis (born Karly-Marina Loaiza) will know, she has simply never dropped a bad song. And I’m not...
Tradition and transformations: reconnecting through food
What is your
Christmas smell? Mine is cinnamon. At that time of year, it seems to spill off
the table and into every bowl and dried...
Sense and Sexibility: A definitive ranking of Austen’s leading men
Welcome to my definitive ranking of Austen’s romantic heroes and, as an auxiliary ranking that I was not actually asked to add, my favourite...
A City Without Music?
Mila Ottevanger explores Oxford's place in music history...
Electronic Music: the Sound and the Sceptics
A look back over the history of - and our attitudes towards - electronic music today.
