Shahzia Sikander: Unbound
Zoe Turoff details the artistic profile of Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander
Anna Piper-Thompson recounts the loss of a childhood literary favourite, considering the impact of its loss on her as a reader
Arts Editor Famke Veenstra-Ashmore recounts her visit to Ely Cathedral’s stained glass museum.
Arts Editors Famke Veenstra-Ashmore and Emma Hulse detail what they’ve been reading for the last month or so.
Exhibition Review
Anna Piper-Thompson discusses human touch and its importance in our lives.
Talia Foster gives a moving account of her experiences with sleep paralysis and how she found comfort in Francis Bacon’s anthropomorphic creatures.
Anna Trowby reflects on how Michael Field changed her perspective of Victorian literature.
Book Review
Famke Veenstra-Ashmore’s insightful review of Ishiguro’s newest novel.
Emma Robinson muses on empathy, acceptance of loss, and commodification of pain.
Vicky Wang describes how the writings of Lao Zi have influenced her father and, in turn, her entire life.
Review
Isabella Todini reviews ‘My Brilliant Friend’ by Elena Ferrante, the first in a quartet of novels that trace the lifetime of a friendship between two women.
In time for Valentine’s Day, Varsity Editor Georgina Buckle hand-picks five texts which muse on love, in all its multitudinous expressions
Interview
Esmee Wright interviews Editor-in-Chief of The Mays Ceci Browning, and discusses the importance of providing a space for students to be creative together, even though we are physically apart
What Macdonald’s novel offers in the context of isolation and missing Cambridge
Natcha Ruamsanitwong reviews the first open-access issue of Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal
Interview
Vulture Editor Isabel Sebode talks with Tilda Butterworth about the role of The Cambridge Cult within the zine scene
Sienna James reviews this debut novel by Cambridge student Abdullah Khan, and finds a world many Cambridge students will recognise – with a wonderful twist
Anna Trowby pays homage to a lesser-known artist whose work she finds gripping
Saksham Sharma presents for us a poem about the transition of the definition of intelligence from strictly-human to a human-machine type
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
Review
Mj Lewis reviews Sayaka Murata’s latest book, reflecting on how language can both alienate and inform and how sometimes, otherworldly beings are the least of our worries
In her first column of the term, Angharad Williams examines how, for Louisa May Alcott, home truly is where the heart is
Orsolya Petocz looks at the ways that Reni Eddo-Lodge’s blog and book leads people to examine their privileges and not just be not-racist, but to actively be anti-racist
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
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