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Studying Study of a Sicilian Peasant
The rise and fall of the Lit-girl 
Opinion
Sophia Jaffer learns the art of portraiture from John Singer Sargent

Opinion
Isabel Adair corresponds with her friend about the lost art of letter writing

Review
Isabel Adair discusses the issue of originality in Ali Smith’s latest novel Glyph

Opinion
Katy Wong explores reading for her degree versus for pleasure

Interview
Rachel Jones gets involved with zine-making in Newnham

Opinion
James Bickley wonders if over-analysing art is detrimental

Ben Bailey examines the development of Cambridge buildings

Column
In the harsh January winter, Emma Gower and Eimear McElduff seek warmth from poetry

Interview
Ryan Vowles meets the author to explore Xu’s culture-bridging legacy

Feature
Rachel Jones guides us through Cambridge’s world of cheap print

Review
Greg Quinn considers Blake’s poetry alongside Benita Kevill-Davies’ paintings

Review
Greg Quinn and Sophie Smout attend Harold Offeh’s exhibition preview

Feature
Otto Bajwa-Greenwood muses on the difficulty of writing museum labels

Ryan Vowles comes to know the artist Gwen Raverat through her perfect childhood memoirs

Feature
Ben Birch explains why commercial galleries are all white cubes

Interview
Talking with the curator of ‘Made in Ancient Egypt’ Sophie Smout argues that the fee shouldn’t put you off

With his new camera Fabian Chan returns to Singapore after a year away

Opinion
Sydney Heintz explores Mervyn Peake’s methodical madness

Feature
Jasper Finlay Burnside thinks of home, Cambridge, and the gulf between the two

Opinion
Amid relentless routine, Abril Duarte González implores you to craft

Review
Otto Bajwa-Greenwood reviews the Fitz’s Discovering Dürer