No longer are gigs an escape from technology or even our own homes. Online gigs can be witnessed and heard right next to a pile of unfinished work, from the same laptops […]
Mediocre Computer: Virtual Gigs in the `New Normal`
What are we to make of Louise Glück’s Nobel Prize?
The world’s most prestigious prize for literature has gone to Louise Glück, an American poet and adjunct professor at Yale, where she is also Rosenkranz Writer in Residence. Attempting to read the […]
Quantity, Quality, and Queerbaiting: Where we are on LGBTQ+ representation
Television is a significant part of all our lives. Especially during the endlessness of lockdown, but also after any long day of work, many of us choose the TV to relax in […]
Review: The Living Nightmare that is I’m Thinking of Ending Things
“People like to think of themselves as points moving through time. But I think it’s probably the opposite. We’re stationary, and time passes through us.” Every time I’ve recommended Charlie Kaufman’s new […]
Which Clubs will be Open this Michaelmas?
I won’t beat around the bush: Oxford’s nightlife is looking pretty bleak this term. Coronavirus has kneecapped this city’s “once thriving” club scene. In some cases, lockdown may have proved to be […]
‘Ratched’ and the Aesthetics of Adaptation
Those of you that have seen Netflix’s Ratched, Ryan Murphy’s latest overblown American Gothic festival of special effects and set design, might very well have clicked on that ‘back to browse’ button […]
Alison Hall: I don’t miss clubbing.
In her second column, Alison Hall comes to terms with the changes to nightlife wrought by the pandemic. I don’t think it would be a huge exaggeration to say that most people’s […]
Trinity Lounge by Lxury: From Croydon with Love
Adam Hewitt speaks to Lxury about growing up in Croydon, COVID, and producing his new EP, Trinity Lounge. Back in 2013, the UK charts saw an explosion of house, garage, and drum […]
Delirium and Dystopia: Looking at the Work of China’s Most Important Artist
Cao Fei (b. 1976) is a multimedia artist born in Guangzhou. Characterised by Fine Art Multiple as an enfant terrible due to the eccentricity of her work, she is at the forefront […]
Exhibition Review – Tullio Crali: Master of Motion
Tullio Crali’s (1910-2000) first showing in Britain is at a small, beautifully set gallery in North London. The Estorick Collection, a tastefully converted Georgian residence, displays two rooms of his works. A […]