Culture
The art of rowing: In conversation with Emily Craig
After a formidable finish in the Lightweight Women’s double sculls at the 2024 Paris Olympics in August, Team GB’s Emily Craig and Imogen Grant secured their places as the...
On Leadership by Tony Blair, Precipice by Robert Harris, and Oxford crime – Books of the Month
On Leadership by Tony Blair; Precipice by Robert Harris; Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order review – “An excellent account”
Dr Edward Howell, whose columns in the Spectator and the Telegraph are among the...
A Revolution Betrayed by Peter Hitchens review – In Defence of Grammar Schools
Review – A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System by Peter...
Veranilda by George Gissing review – The best historical novel never written
George Gissing remains the most underrated novelist in the English language. He wrote twenty-three...
Review: Jason Derulo – Everything is 4
Rachael Griffith is not surprised by the mediocrity of Derulo's new album
Review: DJ Antoine – I Woke Up Like This
George Dennis couldn't be happier with the new single from the Swiss DJ
In Defence of: Celebrity
Anthony Maskell finds Woody Allen's Celebrity to be a startlingly poignant satire
Letterman: The last of his kind
Ollie Johnson celebrates David Letterman's enduring talk-show legacy
The New old Greek Tragedies
Henner Petin makes a plea for the fantastic David Raeburn
Review: Elephants
Omar Hameed was enthralled by this escapist piece of original writing
Preview: Play and That Time
Patrick Oisin Mulholland is blown away by Beckett
Review: Girlhood
A powerfully intimate coming-of-age film. (And nothing to do with Boyhood)
Experimental Theatre Club
Words Words Words
Preview: Twelfth Night
An intriguing reinterpretation of a Shakespeare classic
Preview: Yesterday
Mark Barclay sees potential greatness for this piece of new writing
In Defence Of: Spring Breakers
Tom Barrie defends Selena Gomez and her murderous streak
Cinema: dead as a dodo?
Sam Joyce on why cinema is in a self-made terminal decline
Review: Mad Max
Toby Scadding enjoys vehicular carnage in this franchise revamp
