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: Hop Along – Painted Shut
Rachael Griffith is enthralled by this innovative album
Review: Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home
Matt Myers is impressed by this new introspective album
The most contentious exhibition in Britain?
Emmanuelle Soffe visits Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art
Review: Passion
Patrick Oisin Mulholland is impressed by this slick production
Review: Snoop Dog – Bush
Sam Joyce is delighted to see Snoop and Pharrell reunited
Review: I Nominate
A promising premise missing direction
Review: Killing Hitler
Paul Ostwald is impressed but exhausted by Oxford's German play
Preview: Medea
Patrick Oisin Mulholland is transported by this ancient tragedy
Don’t Mind The Gap
Henner Petin encounters poetry and its translational trap
Review: Beachcombing
Mark Barclay is entranced by this reflective studio play
In Defence Of: Jennifer’s Body
Sam Joyce defends Megan Fox's quasi-feminist horror-comedy
Review: A Little Chaos
Emmanuelle Soffe finds A Little Chaos a predictable period drama
Where cannes we go from here?
Sam Joyce explains why the currently ongoing Cannes Film Festival is suffering from an identity crisis
Review: Living Together
Mark Barclay and Paul Ostwald experience this complex family saga
