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Tuesday 1st July 2025
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Running on treadmills: Milan Kundera’s meditations on Slowness
Sometimes it takes a new word to express an old feeling. Until the age of around fourteen I spent many of my evenings brokering complex agreements with a God...
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Lloyd Doré-Green
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What the book you’re reading says about you
In an institution as prestigious as Oxford, every book you pull out in public...
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Aayah Aslam
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Why romance books should be your post-exam read
With finals in full swing, and prelims just around the corner, Oxford’s libraries are...
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Charlotte Renahan
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Review – The Wykehamist: ‘A Saltburn for the other place’
In the underbelly of Hong Kong, a Goldsmith-Sachs Vice President invites a woman back...
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Maya Heuer-Evans
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Fairytales can show us the horrors of Hitler’s Germany
The stories of Günter Grass bring Germany’s repressed trauma into the light
The late Mr Salinger deserves his enduring reputation
The Catcher in the Rye encapsulates central tenets of our modern world, writes Barney Pite
A beastly tale of life and death
Josephine Southon reflects on the animals and beasts in Grimms' fairy tales
Science fiction that shaped the Revolution
Daniel Antonio Villar looks at the impact of Red Star, by Alexander Bognadov
Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage: His Darkest One Yet
Raffaella Sero reviews Philip Pullman's latest novel
Rock’s best storyteller
"Darnielle's new novel confirms the status that Rolling Stone granted him; Rock's best storyteller", writes Barney Pite.
House of Fear and the reinvention of fairytale
Libby Cherry writes about the feminist undertones to Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet
Nancy Drew – feminist icon or tired corporate creation?
Ellie Duncan explores whether the children's detective series Nancy Drew is progressive or not
Not Forgetting William Hazlitt
Despite critical acclaim, William Hazlitt is now scarcely read.
Turtles All The Way Down review: messy, clichéd, and pretentious
John Green’s latest novel is a messy, sprawling cliché, writes Barney Pite
Angel Hill review – ‘It may be simple, but it isn’t empty’
Michael Longley’s Forward Prize short-listed collection is elegant and timeless, writes Barney Pite
An improbable journey to the East
Sam Dalrymple reflects on mundanity and self-discovery in Bouvier’s The Way of the World
Reconsidering the Lobster: Wallace’s Dostoyevsky
David Foster Wallace cuts to the core of what makes Dostoyevsky invaluable, writes Barney Pite.
Project 1917: The revolution will be tweeted
The historical Project 1917 is bringing new life to the Russian Revolution, writes Lucy Enderby
Assassination attempts amid the violence that tore Kingston apart
The first book written by a Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize is an epic in the truest sense of the word, writes Jacob Cheli
Exploring the poetry of the everyday world
Quiet, mysterious Haruki Murakami fuses local culture with global emotions, writes Lucy Enderby
Alain de Botton: “The university system is failing people”
Author Alain de Botton, founder of the School of Life, talks philosophy, mental health and the education system
Meet Woolf’s doll house inspiration
A miniaturised book which inspired Woolf's Orlando is to be published
In this fractured world, does empathy really hold us all together?
Against Empathy is a compelling and relevant reevaluation of compassion
There’s more to prehistory than cave drawings and diplodocuses
Katie Sayer revisits Yuval Noah Harari's tale of a revolutionary world
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