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!”
Politicians now promise a “smoke-free” UK, but one Cambridge plaque suggests an alternative plan: doctors be damned, “take a fresh cigar!”
Claudia Martínez Garay’s latest exhibition, inspired by Peru’s Inca and Moche cultures, has much to teach about art, sexuality, and language.
‘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?
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?
Content warning: Rape, sexual abuse On January 12, 2022, an activist used a ladder to …
The second article in our short series delving into the background of items in the …
Introduction Within the Star Trek universe, humans are bound by the “Prime Directive” which forbids …
Oxford is known for many things, but neither culinary delicacies nor revolutionary politics generally feature …
This is a review of Mariana Castillo Deball’s 2020 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. The …
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.
We had a chance to chat with The Parisian’s author, Isabella Hammad, about the broader …
V.S. Naipaul’s writings provide a unique insight into his attempt at constructing authentic identity. When …