Review: The Secret History – The Oxford Student
WEBDec 23, 2014 — Review: The Secret History. More than twenty years after its release, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History continues to bewitch readers with the tale of a group of decadent Classics students at an elite Vermont college in the 1980s – and for good reason. The novel’s first scene is that of a group of friends, including nineteen-year-old ...
Should song lyrics be considered poetry? - The Oxford Student
WEBJan 27, 2014 — Should song lyrics be considered poetry? Alex Cowan / Harry Chancellor / Dominic Pollard. Alex Cowan: It’s hard to deny that ‘lyrics-as-poetry’ is an appealing concept. The very idea of ‘poetry’ comes with a whole raft of associations—artistic, literary, profound—that, (among other things) can go along way to justifying one’s ...
Book Review: ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ by Ernest Hemingway
WEBNov 10, 2019 — Hemingway published ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ in 1952, and it was to be his last major work. It is easy to see the parallels between the old man in the novel, called Santiago, and Hemingway. Santiago suffers from bad luck in his old age despite being a great fisher in his youth. Hemingway had been trying to reclaim the literary success of his older books, such as “The Sun Also Rises ...
“Not like other girls” – gender identity, neurodivergence and ...
WEBJul 14, 2021 — Image description: girl holding flag silhouetted against sunset Disclaimer: What I describe in this article is inspired by my personal and my neurodivergent friends’ experiences with gender identity. Many neurodivergent people are very comfortable with and secure in their gender identity and the fact that their brain works differently does not invalidate who they are. Growing up in a hetero ...
And they were… roommates?: The erasure of queer love
WEBJan 18, 2022 — Jessica DeMarco-Jacobson writes about the historical erasure of queer romance, as exemplified by Emily Dickinson and Susan Gilbert.
A chronology of Adele‘s career – The Oxford Student
WEBNov 2, 2021 — A chronology of Adele‘s career. Andrew Wang. After a 5-year hiatus from music and, largely, from the public eye, Adele has finally returned with new music. She released a new single, Easy on Me, and announced a new album, titled 30 in the Adele tradition, to be released on 19 November. While Adele …
The History of Iconoclasm – The Oxford Student
WEBMay 7, 2019 — The History of Iconoclasm. Image description: 1566 Calvinist Iconoclastic Riot, Frans Hogenberg. Iconoclasm represents the viscerality of the human response to art. Reflective of more than just our subjective taste, this sort of destruction is charged with a raw sense of rage. Iconoclasm has the potential to throw crowds into a frenzy; tearing ...
The problem with feminism – The Oxford Student
WEBOct 24, 2020 — The narrative surrounding feminism is dripping with horror stories of so-called ‘feminazis’ wishing for a world free of men and mockeries of a line of women waiting to jump on the opportunity to wrongly accuse unsuspecting men. As ridiculous as these stereotypes are, tabloids are all too eager to push feminism into the forefront for all the ...
The Case For and Against Abolishing the Monarchy
WEBMay 13, 2023 — The Case For the Abolition of the Monarchy – Leon Wheeler. When Charles I was beheaded in 1649, a fundamental tenet in his belief, and in the belief of his supporters, as to why he should be King was the view that the English monarch was divinely appointed by God. Ultimately, when the monarchy was restored in 1688, the exposition of the ...
5 years of strikes for climate: where is Greta Thunberg now?
WEBNov 20, 2023 — At the end of last month, Greta posted a slideshow of images from a climate protest to her Instagram, with the caption: “For five years now we have been striking from school every Friday to protest and demand climate justice. We were born into a crisis that we did not create. It is shameful that the responsibility to act falls so ...