Tag: reading

'Ramadan is a highlight of the Islamic calendar and involves a month of self-reflection and improvement as well as abstinence from food and water. Gaining knowledge is hugely celebrated within Islam, and with more time on my hands not eating or drinking, this spiritual month is the perfect opportunity to learn something new.'

Okay, I thought, when I found myself two weeks into lockdown: NOW is the time to finally read that copy of Brideshead Revisited I...

I will rekindle the love affair with reading that I left behind when I came to Oxford.

Besides the classic value of literature in allowing us to understand perspectives and experiences beyond our own, reading in some ways reminds us of the bigger picture.

It’s easy to be intimidated by poetry. Often it withholds as much as it gives, leaves obscure as much as it reveals. So why read poetry?

Pullman and Rundell make for an oddly cohesive pair at their talk in Blackwells.

Sally Christmas reflects on the importance of diverse literature in the current political climate

Caitlin Rigler reports on an unfortunate end to a brilliant season for the men's hockey Blues