Generally, Orwell’s essays are like the English food he adored so much: dry and bland if nourishing. Their greatest delights, like the food, are never the main course but rather the extras – the Yorkshire pudding rather than the roast chicken. ‘Marrakech’, to take one example, says little especially profound...
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John Maynard Keynes was perhaps the dominant figure of 20th century economics, serenely ensconced in the eye of a raging storm of upheaval in the field which he almost single-handedly stirred up and which remains active to this day. Moreover, Keynes embodied the ideal of the refined English intellectual, marrying...
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As part of preparations for the Spring 2024 Students’ Union (SU) Elections, The Boar recently attended a Q&A session involving the candidates vying for Warwick’s National Union of Students (NUS) Conference Delegate positions. The NUS is a collective of over 600 students’ unions across the UK and aims to act...
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Breath follows a paramedic, Bruce ‘Pikelet’ Pike who reflects on his adolescence spent in small-town Australia. Along with his daredevil friend, Loonie, he comes under the sway of a bearded master surfer-hippie named Bill ‘Sando’ Sanderson. However, Sando has also has a wife, Eva. Initially she exists solely as a...
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Retelling a story as well-known as that of Moses leading the Israelites to freedom is always a path fraught with danger. But, if done right, it also allows for new dimensions of these stories to be unraveled before our very eyes. This is one of The Prince of Egypt’s unique...
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There is no doubt that part of the reason Churchill holds such immense appeal for biographers even to this day is that his life before the premiership, indeed even before entering politics, was such a compelling story – a daring youth seeking adventure (and to a large extent finding it)...
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Spotlight, based on a true story, follows the endeavours of a group of journalists seeking to expose a systemic pattern of sexual abuse and concealment perpetrated by the Catholic Church, all the while contending with forces that seek to prevent them from doing so. Even the journalistic profession’s most mundane...
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A Man in Full follows a variety of characters as they traipse across Atlanta, their paths eventually seeming to converge despite having wildly different aims. However, the book focuses on four main protagonists. Charlie Croker is attempting to save his business from bankruptcy. Roger White is roped into attempting to...
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Alexander Hamilton remains a towering figure in American history. Supposedly endowed with superhuman intellect, courage, and stamina, he left behind a staggering number of written works, fighting as valiantly with a quill as with a musket for the causes he believed in and (largely) single-handedly building the apparatus of American...
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