‘So many lives’: a Nobel laureate’s year in Cambridge
Bridging the distance
Plays and playing truant: Stephen Fry’s Cambridge
Ways to cure your revision board-dom
Obituary
Angello Alcázar remembers the year that the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa spent in Cambridge
Opinion
Heather Leigh muses on the benefits of playing board games in your study breaks
Review
Bryony Clarke reviews the Royal Academy’s spring exhibition
Feature
Emily Cushion tells the story of the poet John Berryman’s turbulent time in Cambridge
Off the Bookshelf
The Varsity Arts editors pick Rupert Brooke’s poem off the bookshelf, and think about what it means to Cambridge students of today
Opinion
Heather Leigh asks if imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery
Review
The Jameel Prize exhibition explores the interdependency of community, landscape and labour
Feature
Stefan Tuchel reflects on his first encounter with the enigmatic group, drawn together by one singer’s music
Feature
Niall Quinn traces the cracks in the history of Cambridge’s stained glass, asking how these windows might colour our identities
Feature
Ryan Vowles explains the meaning behind Cambridge’s coat of arms
Opinion
Edie Castell surveys our desire to purchase taste, exploring the rise of ‘BookTok’ and Sally Rooney
Opinion
Ben Birch thinks about the University’s legacy and asks what kind of culture we are cultivating today
Opinion
The Japanese artist has far more to offer than the femme fatale role that has been thrust upon her, argues Daisy Freeman
Opinion
Jen Price questions why Cambridge lacks an iconic novel of its own, and how it suffers without one
Opinion
Emily Cushion explores portrayals of Cambridge life and asks why everyone wants to write about our university
Opinion
Following the shattering of an Ai Weiwei sculpture, Beth Scott looks back at the artist’s own act of destruction
Postscripts
Eve Connor speaks to Syna Majumder, who imagines a c-list perfume advert, in all its moth-bitten glamour
Feature
What’s the story behind the grey, brutalist buildings ?
Feature
Drawn to these spaces while in Cambridge, Niall Quinn takes to church tourism during the summer break
Opinion
Having visited France’s cave paintings, Heather Leigh argues graffiti can reveal the unrecorded aspects of ourselves and our society
Interview
Alumnus and author of Tiepolo Blue discusses identity, elitism, and sexuality in nineties Peterhouse
Comment
On the Mediterranean sea and Cambridge free, Aoife McGrath wonders whether our creative inspiration is also taking a holiday
Review
Ben Birch explores how the new exhibition encourages chatter among the silent worship of the gallery space
Postscripts
Eve Connor speaks to student and poet Ahana Banerji about, prose, envelopes and keeping things tidy
