Arts & Culture
Arts and Culture Co-Editor Isaac Little explores the resurgence of brutalism, its controversial history and what it all means for Coventry.
Emma Worrall discusses the various controversies that dogged this year’s Academy Awards, and dissects the contenders nominated for Best Picture.
Alpana Sajip reviews Ursula Le Guin’s science fiction masterpiece, ‘The Dispossessed’, telling us what lessons it has to offer in today’s times of political uncertainty
4th year Ceridwen Mitchell discusses an issue close to her heart and her home, that being the regeneration of social housing in Cressingham Gardens and the admirable stand residents are taking against this act of gentrification in Lambeth.
Lewis McClenaghan talks about his experience at the Tate Modern film installation “The Clock” and what it tells us all about cinema, society and the lives of each and every one of us
Through exploring Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, Andrew Kersley discusses how Agatha Christie subverts reader expectations and rejuvenates the murder mystery genre.
Hidden beneath the extravagance of an Athenian background, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) captures the capitalistic criticism and misanthropic isolation of one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays: Timon of Athens.
Politics and Economics Coeditor Andrew Kersley uses Spanish Sci-Fi programme El Ministerio Del Tiempo to show the formative role television can play in culture.
Matthew Dale discusses the root of the problem surrounding Studio Ghibli’s crisis of succession by delving into the political and personal reasons for the acclaimed studio’s impending downfall.
Holly Winter reviews the Tate Britain’s recent exhibition Artist and Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past, arguing that it fails to address the most troubling aspects of our history
Alpana Sajip explores the wider implications of the Mead Gallery’s 2016 exhibition ‘The Human Document’, considering how truthfully photography can reflect the human condition, and how it has continued to evolve from post-Depression America to today’s digital universe
Molly Russell argues Bob Dylan’s recent Nobel Prize win is wholly deserved: his lyrics of protest and emancipation speak louder now than ever before.
Arts and Culture co-editor Kat Burdon reviews Justin Kurzel’s widely acclaimed reinterpretation of the Scottish Play, examining the tale’s treatment of man, madness, and morality to suggest that its enduring appeal can be found in the lessons it would teach us, lessons long learned and yet never fully acted upon.
Jordan Hindson explores the relationship between mental illness and the creative temperament, with the help of Kay Redfield Jamison’s seminal book Touched with Fire.
A 21st century re-imagining of Caryl Churchill’s 1981 play, Top Girls, from Arts & Culture Co-Editor Kat Burdon.
Perspective’s Editor Thames discusses the film ‘The Lobster’ in the context of online dating and suggests that looking for love and searching for a job have more in common than you think.
Jordan Hindson examines the use of the death penalty in the US, and argues that Albert Camus still has a lot to teach us.
Jamie Taylor analyses the viral videos that rapidly flood our newsfeeds alongside the political soundbites that emanate from our television screens.
Jordan Hindson explains why the Spanish Civil War was such attractive subject matter for twentieth-century artists and intellectuals, and explores the immortal works that they produced in response to the conflict.
In his essay ‘Who Owns Auschwitz?’, Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész wrote: “More and more often, the Holocaust is stolen from its guardians and made into cheap consumer goods. Or else it is institutionalized, and around it is built a moral political ritual, complete with a new and often phony language.” Nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in American culture, writes Helena Skinner.
Jordan Hindson examines Dr. Strangelove and the Cuban Missile Crisis to reflect on the twisted logic that frames the nuclear debate.
Arts and Culture co-editor Kat Burdon discusses the importance of clothing in contemporary society, and how the way we dress can impact upon and inform collective and individual identities.
Arts & Culture co-Editor Clare Hymer discusses how our predilection for ‘multiple identities’ is reinforcing hyper-consumption.
Arts and Culture co-Editor Kat Burdon considers how the VW scandal could affect attitudes towards the car as our primary medium of transport.
Arts & Culture co-Editor Kat Burdon discusses the concept of ‘eating clean’, a recent phenomenon driven in part by food bloggers encouraging readers to follow a healthier diet. The article exposes the way in which eating ‘cleaner’ has been falsely equated with a greener, more ethically sound lifestyle through the faddish promotion of ‘superfoods’ – many of which are expensive and fundamentally damaging to the environment.