Christmas: the season where hope springs eternal, where laughter and good cheer are spread, and kindness to one’s fellow man predominates. It’d be nice if any of that were actually true, but let’s be honest, Christmas is really about the presents you get, and finding the perfect gift for someone...
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Asad Raza reviews Tall Stories' 'Wilde Creatures' at the Warwick Arts Centre, a show inspired by Oscar Wilde's collection of fairy tales.
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“We’re a disaster, all of us”. As a phrase, it perfectly encapsulates Real Madrid’s season. Casemiro’s comment on his team’s insipid performance during El Clasico could be taken as representative for the state of affairs of some of European football’s leading lights. Whether due to systemic issues, a style of...
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It was love at first sight. The first time I read Catch-22 I fell madly in love with it. It’s strange to think that a book so consumed with rage, so bound up in attacking the idiocies of man and the absurdities of war, would provide me with so much...
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Universities have seduced and enhanced writers of every generation. Perhaps the form most celebrated for representing universities in literature is the campus novel. Novels such as Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited depict university as a place where their protagonists encounter principles that challenge and define...
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