The best lectures I have been to: An Interview with Amia Srinivasan
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 n
Is Caroline Calloway a Scammer?
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 desc
Icon of the Week: Carl Smithson
Flora Bigham speaks to the manager of Truck Records in Cowley, Carl Smithson, about the local music scene, the vinyl revival, and the store’s role in building a community around music in Oxford. How did you get to this position of running the store? Our parent company, Rapture opened up a shop
Review: Priscilla
Imee Marriott reviews Priscilla from the 67th BFI London Film Festival. It has been a big couple of years for Elvis Presley fans. June 2022 saw Baz Luhrmann’s dazzling epic, Elvis, meet box office and critical success: now, Sofia Coppola has adapted Priscilla Presley’s memoir, Elvis and Me, for
‘A World Away’ – Two Generations: Gabriella and Julian Bailey
Julian Bailey’s painting ‘Four Youths on a Wall, Santa Maria del Mar’ is paradigmatic of his concise, colourful style, combining a figurative, observational method with abstraction. Donated to the Pembroke JCR Art Collection in 2007, ‘Four Youths’ will be displayed at the Pembroke J
Henry McGuinness: an interview with an Oxford busker
Walk down Cornmarket or Westgate and at any given moment your journey will be set to the soundtrack of experimental synthesiser tracks (a recent highlight last week), a hand-wound organ, or Lana Del Rey covers. Henry McGuiness is a guitarist who devises such soundtracks to many Oxford-resident’s d
Icon of the Week: Eddie Whittingham
Eddie Whittingham is the owner of Common Ground, a community-focussed social enterprise that, in exchange for purchasing a coffee, provides work and leisure space for Oxford’s residents. It is a sunny Michaelmas morning as I lock my bike outside Common Ground on Little Clarendon Street. Admitte
Chloe Chidume’s ‘Homage’: In conversation with Britain’s Best Young Artist
Chloe Chidume, 14 from Newcastle, won BBC’s Britain’s Best Young Artist 2023, making her the youngest artist to have had their work hung in the Tate. Her painting ‘Homage’ was selected by judges, Ricky Martin, Sadie Clayton, and Tate’s Director of Learning, Mark Miller. The piece l
Only Just: An Interview with No Love in the House of Gold
No Love in the House of Gold started as the liminal music project of Sam Cowell and Edward Spence, both from Sheffield, UK. What begun as a joke, the project has amassed millions of streams on Spotify, produced five albums, and currently boasts 200,000 monthly listeners. Sam, Edward, and I spoke via