Talia Foster gives a moving account of her experiences with sleep paralysis and how she found comfort in Francis Bacon’s anthropomorphic creatures.
Fiction
Delilah Dennett muses over the difficulty of making choices.
Book Review
Famke Veenstra-Ashmore’s insightful review of Ishiguro’s newest novel.
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A fool-proof list of history books you will actually find interesting
Vicky Wang describes how the writings of Lao Zi have influenced her father and, in turn, her entire life.
Lily Isaacs recommends short story collections to help rediscover the enjoyment of reading.
In time for Valentine’s Day, Varsity Editor Georgina Buckle hand-picks five texts which muse on love, in all its multitudinous expressions
Phil Tarrant muses on the work of Gertrude Stein in the context of lockdown.
What Macdonald’s novel offers in the context of isolation and missing Cambridge
Caitlin Farrell describes how running a poetry group helped to rediscover the enjoyment of writing poetry.
Interview
Vulture Editor Isabel Sebode talks with Tilda Butterworth about the role of The Cambridge Cult within the zine scene
Review
Anna Piper-Thompson reviews the curiosity of the ‘Alfred Wallis Rediscovered’ exhibition
Anna Trowby pays homage to a lesser-known artist whose work she finds gripping
Elliot Aitken debunks the online image of the ‘theme park adult’, and looks instead at the immense artistry required to create and run these giants of immersive entertainment
In the wake of a tumultuous election, Luke Hallam examines how the violence evoked in the political worlds of the Great American Novels has captured and unnerved British audiences and their own, more staid, image
Ella Campbell examines the latest work by experimental artist Marina Abramovic, mixing technology and reality, and asks whether Abramovic has found a new artistic medium, or a pricey gimmick
In her first column of the term, Angharad Williams examines how, for Louisa May Alcott, home truly is where the heart is
Inspired by the scandal over Jeff Mermelstein’s latest project, Sofia Johanson debates what privacy means in the modern art world
Maisie Pedder reads her way around the globe, and explores how literature can be a gateway to more from the safety of your own room
The final of three stories inspired by people from all over the world that we have lost due to COVID, this piece by Olivia Jacklin is inspired by the work and life of Michael Sorkin.
Isabel Sebode looks at how Berlin clubs are rethinking the relationship between culture and clubbing
‘A Lady’ interrogates the corporate feminism behind the latest publicity campaign by the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Long Read
Alex Haydn-Williams on the pleasures, problems and ambiguities of reading the previous generation’s Great American Novels.
“A culture is always poorer if it defines itself within thin parameters” writes Alex Haydn-Williams, in the second part of a Long Read about the pleasures, problems and ambiguities of reading the previous generation’s Great American Novels.
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