Culture
Cherwell Introducing: Phoebe Blue
Joining me this week is the radiant Phoebe Blue, a 2nd year classicist at Balliol, singer-songwriter, and bassist. Meeting me on a blustery Saturday afternoon outside the Ashmolean, Phoebe...
Artificial insights: Decoding diversity and redefining art history with AI
In the age of AI-enhanced art, the possibilities for creativity and cultural exchange are limitless—and inclusive.
War, Peace and Writing
Throughout history, art has left an indelible cultural impact on humanity’s collective understanding of...
Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
I walked into the Wyndham Theatre’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night by...
Film around the world – Turkey’s Atıf Yılmaz
Atıf Yılmaz was a Turkish film director. Until his death in 2006, he was...
The Silent Boom of Killers of the Flower Moon: A Review
Minor spoiler alert for the beginning of the film!
Martin Scorsese’s latest film Killers of the Flower Moon has reached UK cinemas and despite the...
“Highly enjoyable”: An Enemy of the People Review
Henrik Ibsen wrote to the publisher of his 1882 play ‘An Enemy of the People’ that ‘I am still uncertain whether I should call...
Unveiling the Suburban Secrets of Desperate Housewives
If I were to select only one show on repeat for the rest of my life, there’s no doubt it would be Desperate Housewives....
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me: The kiss in art
I think I have always wondered how the first kiss came about. A quick Google search produces a very provisional 2500BC as an answer...
A window to the soul
“A window to the soul”I would fix my gaze upon its shuttersPale, dusty blue-greenTarnished edgesAn irritating creakThey’re faulty,Letting unwanted light stream inBlinding me,Or they...
“Rich and original”: ‘Parables, Fables, Nightmares’ Review
Parables, Fables, Nightmares is the first short story collection published by Malachi McIntosh. A short traditional story collection can be likened to a gallery...
Genetics
What beauty is thereIn the anger that spills from your lips?After every kissA fightUneven groundI've become so good at telling liesThe droplets fall; I...
Why Don’t We Have Any ‘Mega Popstars’ Anymore?
This August, Billboard released an article asking the question: where have all our mega popstars from the 2000s and early 2010s gone? It was...
How to judge a book by its cover
Let’s be real. You’re in Blackwells looking for a book to read if you’re cool, and buying a mug with a world map on...
‘Oh no, the sky is falling’: This is How We Walk on the Moon Review
A full-moon shaped circle of chairs awaits the audience. We’re directed to stand in the middle of the circle and one by one, characters...
‘The Furnace of Art’ : A Review of Amadeus at the Keble O’Reilly
‘Nowadays all cats appreciate are coloratura,’ Salieri says gravely ‘like the rest of the Public’. This sums up Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus (which is currently...
“The poetry of motion!”: Toad of Toad Hall Review
Toad of Toad Hall A.A Milne’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 beloved classic The Wind in the Willows, is a testament to throwing responsibilities...
“Immersive and interesting”, King Lear at the Wyndham Theatre
Kenneth Branagh has taken on a new project: directing and starring in the Shakespearean classic ‘King Lear’ this winter at the Wyndham Theatre in...
“Slightly out of joint”: Hamlet Review
That Isaac Asimov’s retelling of a bemused reader’s response to Hamlet – ‘I don’t see why people admire that play so. It is nothing...
