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,...
Review: ‘Magda’ by Meike Ziervogel
Sadie Levy Gale is impressed by Ziervogel's harrowing depiction of corrosive mother-daughter relationships in Nazi Germany
Man Ray Packs Sting
Kezia St. Clare Smithe enjoys the 'meticulous and subtle' portraits in the Man Ray exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
On Hilary’s Own Terms
Sadie Levy Gale talks about university life and writing with the two time Booker winner
Review: V.A. – Spring Breakers OST
William Dickson reviews the music used in this recent hit
Review: Phoenix – Bankrupt!
Jack Chown finds Phoenix's long-awaited new album to be a good listen
Pompeii and Circumstance
Alexander Reut-Hobbs takes a look at the British Museum's latest exhibition.
Interview: Dog Is Dead
Luke Barratt talks pop and partying with Trev from Dog Is Dead
A Touch of Frost and a little Nixon
Ksenia Harwood and Katie Ebner-Landy look forward to Frost/Nixon by looking back to Nixon at the Union
Review: The Ice Cream Girls
Despite some strong performances, Veronica Heney finds this adaptation doesn't do justice to the drama of the novel
Review: Scott and Bailey
Georgina Pollard welcomes the return of Manchester's finest crime-fighting duo
Hacked Off?
The latest cinema event from Hacked Off Films promises 'an evening of immersive psycho-sexual horror'
Media use detrimental to grades
New research shows that texting and browsing the internet have been linked to lower grades at university
Review: Endeavour
Spire-porn at its best? Oxford is the real star of this Morse prequel, writes Tess Colley
Sounds of Summer!
With trinity term rapidly approaching Cherwell music look at tracks with a particularly summery flavour....
