Icon of the Week: Oliver Sworder
Oliver Sworder is a third-year biologist at Keble. He’s a campaigner with Just Stop Oil. What is your role with Just Stop Oil? So, I’m the local uni coordinator. I’m sort of making sure everything actually happens behind the scenes. How did you start working with them? I met Daniel Kno
The Allure of Black-and-White Cinema: A Recent Resurgence
Can embracing technological limitations bring us closer to our objectives in making art? Is engaging with the flaws of an artist’s medium the best way for them to transcend that medium? The filmmakers of today who are still working in black-and-white think so. Since colour film debuted in 1908 wit
Icon of the Week: Zak Machachi
Could you please introduce yourself? My name is Zak, I’m 25, I’m in the 3rd year of my chemistry DPhil, and I’m a trance DJ. How did you get into electronic music? My mum was pretty involved in the dance music scene back in the day, and so from a young age I would hear […]
The Gold Drawings: Evelyn De Morgan at Leighton House
As far as is known, Evelyn De Morgan made only seventeen ‘gold drawings’. Eleven of these are arranged along Leighton House’s basement gallery, tracing a filigree thread across the four dark walls. The room is low-ceilinged, and its walls are the same matte grey as the carefully selected woven
The Tolkien Brothers and their Shire: An Interview with Chris Tolkien
Chris Tolkien is J. R. R. Tolkien’s great-nephew, one of the few remaining relatives of Tolkien’s with first-hand memories of the writer. We meet at Chris’ garden nurseries just outside the Worcestershire town of Evesham, on the same plot of land that Hilary Tolkien bought when he moved to the
Community Facebook Pages are my Kardashians
“Did anyone hear strange noises at 4.00am this morning?” During one long night spent under the UV lights of Hertford’s (soon to be demolished) windowless library basement, I decided to join my local community Facebook page. In doing so, I hoped to feel the warm, albeit virtual, embrace of my s
What I Learned from the Fringe
It’s the end of August and the crowds are filtering out of Edinburgh. And the conclusive thoughts are filtering in. Here’s what I learned at the Fringe. In: £15 (minimum) street food, high-concept clown shows, lanyards, tunnocks caramel wafers, raincoats, the looming presence of Phoebe Wa
What I Learned from the Fringe
It’s the end of August and the crowds are filtering out of Edinburgh. And the conclusive thoughts are filtering in. Here’s what I learned at the Fringe. In: £15 (minimum) street food, high-concept clown shows, lanyards, tunnocks caramel wafers, raincoats, the looming presence of Phoebe Wa
Review: ‘For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy’ At the Apollo Theatre
Bodies intertwining under blue lights, the sound of a jazz saxophone rising from glittering synths, six Black men begin to voice their desires. “Let a Black boy dance, and let him take up as much space as he needs.” In Ryan Calais Cameron’s astounding and poignant play For Black Boy