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: Andy Eastwood, Holywell
Huw Fullerton reviews 'musical variety entertainer' Andy Eastwood's 'Return of the Uke' gig
Review: Gotye – Making Mirrors
Patrick Scott examines Gotye's incoherent Making Mirrors
Interview: Hopsin
Steffan Blayney talks to internet rap sensation Hopsin about going it alone and being true to yourself
Review: Antarctica
Natasha Frost is impressed by OUDS' New Writing Festival 'Antarctica', despite identifying some structural problems with the script
Who write the word? Girls.
Cherwell reconsiders 'women's writing'
Mosse-t Interesting
Jack Powell and Chloë Wicks speak to award-winning author Kate Mosse
The long and the short of it
Christy Edwall speaks with the new master of the short short story
The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Producer’s Blog
Sarah Leonard on the trials and tribulations of the audition process
Blockbusters and Bueller: the 80s in film
Anna Leszkiewicz seeks out the infectious enthusiasm and big displays of 1980s cinema
A ring of writers
Rebecca Loxton introduces Oxford brand new writer's circle
Skins at Season Six
Goh Li Sian bemoans the decline of the hit teen drama
Review: The Muppets
Joseph Newall finds The Muppets well worth the ticket price
A Bluffers’ Guide to: Ambient Female Vocals
In his final Bluffers', Harry Scholes explores beautiful ambient music with female vocals
Review: Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror
Ceri Fowler tackles Sleigh Bell's second album, Reign of Terror
