The City Within a City: Notes on the Square Mile
There is something uniquely disconcerting about the void where a demolished building once stood. You try and pick out the spots in the air where people walked through doors, along corridors, or up and down flights of stairs. It is as unsettling as ancient hills are strangely comforting in their age,
ISIS Mix 002: Lu Williams
Ruskin student and Supermarket resident DJ Lu Williams steps up for this week’s ISIS Mix, with a weird and wonked out selection of glitchy pop. “This mix and most mixes released under Bitchcraft are witch house, influenced by contemporary hip hop or 90s garage, kinda like &
ISIS Mix 001: David King
David King steps up for the inaugural ISIS Mix, the first of a new series in which Oxford's best student DJs put together a selection of the tracks that have influenced them.
Baring My Bones
‘Things just feel… so bleak, somehow. So overwhelmingly, inescapably bleak,’ I mumbled, voice monotone, eyes dead. I was eighteen, but my brain and bones, ravaged by seven years of cruel anorexia and vicious bulimia, felt at least eighty. Curled like a melancholic tadpole opposite my psycholog
What We’re Into: Staff Picks
I’m a big fan of Readux Books, a Berlin-based publisher which produces beautifully designed pocket-sized works of translated fiction, so I was pleased to find this essay by its founder in the LA Review of Books. It’s a clever meditation on the paradoxes of translation, which expresses it
What We’re Into: Staff Picks
Having enjoyed her free renderings of Sappho, I picked up Anne Carson’s Antigonick (Sophokles), which is ostensibly a translation of the classical tragedy. True to form, Carson has taken a loose approach to her source material: I hadn’t got a page into the book before Antigone started an argumen