Madeleine Ridout’s detailed review of “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata: how does a single woman respond to Japanese social pressures?
Books
Eating French to be French
Ben O’Brien on the importance of cookbooks for his journey of integration with French society and culture.
Peonies: consuming otherness
Wei Kai takes us through the beauty and clarity of Zadie Smith’s newest essay collection ‘Intimations’.
Kae Tempest’s ‘On Connection’: A Review
Max Spokes’ personal perspective on Kae Tempest’s newest work ‘On Connection’.
The world in your head: A review of Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Lily Down reviews Flights by Olga Tokarczuk. Fluidity, immateriality and constant travelling are the main characteristics of a novel we all need to read in Covid 19 times.
Up for audition – can audiobooks compete with the written word?
Tom Martland on the many perks of audiobooks, access to complicated literature being the most central one.
The Lockdown Diet: Fictional Worlds Ready-Made
What are the repercussions of an increase in television consumption and how do our connections with books and television differ?
Too Much Reality?!: Why technology is absent from literature
We have had mobile phones for almost fifty years, social media in some capacity for the last twenty, and the iPhone for thirteen. For most, day-to-day life is so bound together by technology that it is hard to discern the difference between the world we live in online and the one we physically inhabit. We Read More…
“I sconce anyone who only got into Oxford because they are black”, an Interview with Barrister Alexandra Wilson.
My interview style seems, in hindsight, to be somewhere between babbling and obsequious. I was anxious to meet Alexandra, she is a celebrity on legal Twitter alongside the likes of the Secret Barrister and Joanna Hardy. I flicked through my notebook which had long winding questions about her time at Oxford, her journey to the Read More…
Love, death and Quorn: vegetarianism in literature
Tolstoy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Franz Kafka. Some of literature’s greatest, whose meat-free diets all beg the same question: how deep can getting Greggs’ vegan sausage roll really be? As it turns out, pretty deep. Hipsters and certain brands of vegan activism may have changed their image, but plant-based diets have roots as a subversive, anti-capitalist, Read More…