The Pleasures and Perils of Smoking in Calverley’s “Ode to Tobacco”
Politicians now promise a “smoke-free” UK, but one Cambridge plaque suggests an alternative plan: doctors be damned, “take a fresh cigar!”
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Reflection on ‘WAKCHAKUNA / We Who Share Everything and Nothing’ at Nottingham Contemporary
Claudia Martínez Garay’s latest exhibition, inspired by Peru’s Inca and Moche cultures, has much to teach about art, sexuality, and language.
Tolkien and the refugees of Middle Earth
‘The Lord of the Rings’ is cited as an inspirational text by both friends and foes of asylum seekers, but what does it really say?
Issam Kourbaj’s “Urgent Archive”: Exhibition Review
The latest Kettle’s Yard exhibition is a real-time battle to preserve Syrian history from oblivion, but does it stick in the viewer’s memory?
From Gill Sans, to Sans Gill: The Controversy over the Work of Eric Gill
Content warning: Rape, sexual abuse On January 12, 2022, an activist used a ladder to …
The Haida Totem Pole: A First Nations Treasure in Oxford
The second article in our short series delving into the background of items in the …
Breaking the Prime Directive: The Pitt Rivers Phantoms
Introduction Within the Star Trek universe, humans are bound by the “Prime Directive” which forbids …
Marmalade and the Revolution: The Gently Subversive History of Oxford’s Most Famous Foodstuff
Oxford is known for many things, but neither culinary delicacies nor revolutionary politics generally feature …
Review: ‘Between making and knowing something’ by Mariana Castillo Deball
This is a review of Mariana Castillo Deball’s 2020 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. The …
An Interview with Isabella Hammad: Part Two
This is the second part of an interview with Isabella Hammad, the author of The Parisian: an epic tale of a Palestinian man’s journey beginning at the outbreak of the First World War.
An Interview with Isabella Hammad: Part One
We had a chance to chat with The Parisian’s author, Isabella Hammad, about the broader …
Literature after the British Empire: V.S. Naipaul’s story
V.S. Naipaul’s writings provide a unique insight into his attempt at constructing authentic identity. When …
