Culture
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...
Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – “The prime minister we never had”
This is a marvellous book, a memoir of Rory Stewart’s nine years in Parliament,...
Interview: Marvellous Medicine
Luke Barratt gets a quick dose of Oxford’s most exciting live act at Isis’s Cellar night
Review: Autobiography by Morrissey
Please, Please, Please, Let... him stop writing
Review: Actors’ Anonymous by James Franco
Will Pimlott on James Franco's 'trite and embarrassing' new novel
Interview: Albert Alla
Adam Whiley speaks to Albert Alla about his Oxford-set debut novel
Interview: Jim Crace
Emma Hewitt talks politics, journalism and Booker nominations with Jim Crace
More Funny
Claire Watt has a laff with the jokers behind last term's 'Some Funny'
Cuppers 2013
Highlights form OUDS' annual introduction to thespdom
Preview: Shells
From the writer of Bluebeard and Lead Feathers comes a new play, set in a post-apocalyptic Britain
Review: The Hypochondriac
Witty, farcical and mad: this week's play at the Keble O'Reilly was a sheer delight
Introduction to: Grime Instrumentals
George King introduces the sub-low enfant terrible of the British underground
Protest in Art
Delia Lockey discusses how protests are portrayed in culture
My Week: Jen Brennan
Jen Brennan is at University College, reading PPE. She plays percussion for the Oxford University Ceilidh Band.
Letter from Amman
Ollie Radway writes from the capital of Jordan
Review M.I.A. – Matangii
Adam Piascik is impressed by the singer's return to form
