Tag: review

A review of Lavinia Greenlaw's 'The Built Moment' (Faber and Faber, 2019)

A review of David Sedaris' 'Calypso' (Little, Brown, 2018)

Reviewing Pat Barker’s ‘The Silence of the Girls’ (Penguin, 2018).

“Audiences deserted his lectures, Harvard students mocked his outfits, and his failures left him drunk and dejected." Reviewing Michele Mendelssohn's 'Making Oscar Wilde'.

A review of Theresa Lola’s debut poetry collection (Nine Arches Press, 2019).

'This third instalment in Smith’s quartet is perhaps the best yet; a novel for our times that asks all the right questions of the current climate, but also of itself. '

Exploring the themes of illict love, friendship and bereavement in Tessa Hadley’s 'Late in the Day'.

A review of Lidia Yuknavitch's new memoir, The Chronology of Water.

A review of Sinéad Gleeson's new memoir.

From the mid-2000s to now, video games have slowly revolutionised the ways in which we communicate within society. Our lives are enmeshed by them....

Peter Stark conducts a moving performance of Shostakovich 7 with the Oxford University Orchestra

The People's Opera's production of Eugene Onegin is a great achievement against the odds

The problem of portion sizing facing our national nutrition

The reinvention of her ‘reputation’ is not a change of character nor a sudden shift in her attitude to the spotlight. The Reputation era was simply a rebranding of sound, lyricism, production and image which worked to provoke her audience and, ironically, sustain her reputation.