The difficulties of staging an opera about rape
The Rape of Lucretia is being performed at St Peter’s College in seventh week of Hilary Term. Yet many voices have emerged to challenge the production. The controversy and struggle endured by the production team even to get the opera staged is far beyond what most experience when putting together
All The Words In The World
Since it is user-generated, forvo.com doesn’t really feature all the words in the world, which makes its catchphrase something like Activia claiming to “Feed your Inner Smile”.
Lost in the Library of Babel
Recently, before bed, I’ve developed a new habit, one that I’m not sure I can explain.
Honour and the law in Jordan
In the case of honour killings leniency is frequently requested, as the perpetrator is often part of the very same family.
Kin calling out the past like a foreigner
‘Citizen’ is a charged and genre-defying artwork about institutionalised racism.
Iqbal Khan lets his guard down
“These words, ‘sacred’ and ‘reverent’, they ossify the imagination.”
Two Tributes to David Bowie
David Bowie bound together everyone who didn’t fit in, every unique and rebellious misfit or exile, and gave us hope.
The Aubervilliers teacher
His assailant, he said, was armed with a box-cutter and invoked the Islamic State as he carried out his attack. When he was taken in for questioning, he confessed that he had invented the attack.
Trump, Muslims, and human decency
What his fans care about—and what Trump gloriously brings—is the hyper-masculine “total knowledge of a passion which rises erect and alone”, the atmosphere and essence of an anti-establishment rebellion.