Books
Bust?: Saving the Economy, Democracy and our Sanity by Robert Peston and Kishan Koria- Review
"So long as we have an economic system geared towards the accumulation of wealth rather than the acquisition of it, inequalities will continue to widen"
Book recommendations from the editors’ desk
"It’s rare that I find non-fiction to be such a page-turner, but Tara Westover’s autobiography was just that."
Greg Heffley: A Hero of Our Time
Few modern comic heroes align with our distinctive age – an age which Dickens’s...
The man of the moment: Review of Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin
"Baldwin does his best to humanise Starmer and to deflate the view of him as “Mr Boring”."
Review: Chaucer Here and Now, Weston Library
"Mansplaining scribes, scandalised censors, and unfinished endings. Even from day one, there is no stable and single Chaucer."
Resisting bodily urges: extreme asceticism in medieval female saints’ lives
The modern-day 'anorexia memoir' has its origin in the genre of medieval saints' lives
Why do we write?
We write for ourselves, for the reader, and for wider society. And I think that’s probably a good enough reason to write an article for Cherwell.
The anxiety of envy
"Big names dominate the industry, and yet their fiction feels incredibly same-y."
Knight Of: read the one percent
Juliet Garcia covers the launch of Knight Of's crowdfunding campaign, centred around BAME children's literature.
The Bookshelf: Vita Sackville-West’s ‘Solitude’
As part of our new blog series ‘The Bookshelf’, Jenny Scoones finds solace in Vita Sackville-West’s ‘Solitude’.
2019 Booklist: The Best is Yet to Come
With the new year comes a fresh calendar of book releases to look out for. Chung Kiu Kwok shares a few of her most anticipated titles hitting shelves in the coming twelve months.
Books to buy in the first few months of 2019
A quick guide to the highly anticipated books coming out in 2019
Sequels and Spinoffs: serving commercial or creative interests?
What are the impacts of adding to a fictional universe?
‘A bit of Bah Humbug’: Christmas in Great Expectations
Dickens is the perfect post-Christmas antidote to anyone exhausted by the festive season
Beyond Juvenal: “who will guard the guardians?”
One line in Juvenal’s Satire VI finds itself reincarnated in countless modern pop culture references.
The Bookshelf: Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Villette’
In the first of our blog series on your favourite books and poems, Jenny Scoones finds the passionate love and faith in Bronte’s later, lesser-known novel to rival the author's more canonical works
Milkman by Anna Burns: a pertinent portrait of life during the Troubles
An exploration of Anna Burns' The Milkman and its chilling relationship to the violence of the Troubles.
Poetry in motion: the nature of lyrics
Should lyrics be given the same respect as poetry?
Armitage’s Gawain: translating in wylde wayeȝ
"Translation is not without flaws – it cannot help but alter authorial voice, although the degree to which this takes place is certainly not consistent."
