Venturing into the world of Arabian jazz: In conversation with Shirley Smart

by Maria Cherfaoui | November 24, 2023

On a Mad Hatter jazz night like no other, I was immersed into the eclectic sound world of cellist Shirley Smart. One of the UK’s most innovative cellists, in her reverberant embrace of strings, she weaves a symphony that transcends genres, seamlessly fusing the elegant precision of classical techniques with the soulful improvisation of jazz […]

The best lectures I have been to: An Interview with Amia Srinivasan

by Anandita Abraham | November 20, 2023

Pin-drop silence is not an easy feat in an Exam School room filled to over twice its capacity, but it is  achieved weekly at Amia Srinivasan’s ‘Feminist Theory’ lectures. Necks crane, coughing is held back in throats, and an hour of cross-legged devotion promises to test hip strength. It is not that the Special Subject […]

Is Caroline Calloway a Scammer?

by Marianne Doherty | November 14, 2023

Our relationship ended the way it was always going to end: influencer/memoirist Caroline Calloway ignored my follow-up texts asking for an interview. But before the dream died, she sent The Isis her book. This slim memoir, Scammer, is composed of 67 chapters, most not longer than two pages. She describes it as a “daybook”—a book […]

The Lunch

by Olivia Dunn | April 10, 2023

Based on Monet’s ‘The Lunch’, set in his garden at Argenteuil Jean’s cheeks flushed red. The tower he had been building had come tumbling down, felled by the swift gale of his pudgy hand batting a bee away. The pollen in the air made his nose run, dripping onto the smart new sailor-suit Maman had […]