Live performances have been reimagined in the Coronavirus crisis: gigs and concerts have formed into archival footage and live streams. Whilst Laura Marling's latest performance falls under the latter, the intimate video and isolated vocals make for a show worth watching.
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Lo-fi is certainly one of the more avant-garde genres to emerge from the technological age: combining distortions and errors in music tracks, it recycles these flaws into a palatable and study-friendly stream perfect for late-night cramming sessions.
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Asad Raza discusses the recent decision to make the classic works of J.D. Salinger available as e-books despite the author's views
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A penny for Greg Popovich’s thoughts. The USA coach could be forgiven for wondering what on earth he had gotten himself into as he watched Patty Mills put up 30 points during Australia’s historic 98-94 victory over his US side. A squad he hoped would contain Anthony Davis and Damian...
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Asad Raza explores how successful the translation of Catch-22 from novel to TV series has been and what is lost by the adaptation
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We sometimes find ourselves resorting to music to explain how we feel, or relate in words we understand when things are tough. Can we do the same for the political climate? With Brexit looming, a new PM, climate change pressing and so much more, some of our writers chose their top pick of songs to relate to the disarray of the current world.
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Sadia Nowshin, Asad Raza and Sarah Staniforth share the books they all plan to read and enjoy over the summer break
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Hip Hop has always had an uneasy relationship with popular culture. Despite the genre’s prevalence and popularity within mainstream music, it is treated with a fundamental suspicion. The message the music carries is seen as inherently violent and corrosive, even leading Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera to claim that “hip-hop...
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After 52 years, Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is being adapted into a series by Netflix. The streaming giant announced a ten-part series, chronicling the trials and tribulations of the Buendía family across six generations, a move that serves as an indicator of the remarkable...
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Is the King dead? This is perhaps the fundamental question left to us in the dying embers of the NBA regular season. This hasn’t been the LeBron we’re accustomed to seeing, the relentless warrior-robot that consumes elite competition with the ease that most of us usually reserve for mundane things,...
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Adam Appich, one of the central characters in Richard Powers’s The Overstory, says: “Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment.” As a phrase, it captures the inescapability of our condition, and of our deeply problematic, almost pathological relationship with the environment. In climate...
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In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez wrote a foundation myth. He reconfigured reality, weaving a tale that encompassed the history of a continent, shaping the identity of the Columbian people. In a country riven by division, García’s melding of the fantastic with the mundane helped create a...
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For the first time in twenty years, Roald Dahl’s My Year is back in print. The combined efforts of the Roald Dahl Story Company and Penguin Random House have helped initiate a reappraisal of a largely forgotten work, one perhaps overshadowed by the success of his beloved children’s novels. It’s...
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