Arts and Lit

The hilarious and surprisingly talented cast of Shakesoc succeeded in bringing to life all the celebrated aspects of Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’, adding humorous details to make it pertinent to uni …

  W henever Banksy paints another wall or holds another exhibition, his work soon finds its way to the foreground of current events. From depicting Queen Victoria as a lesbian …

It’s been so long, my love, but I haven’t yet found a perfume that reminds me of you.   I’ve felt you on my fingertips, inhaled you after midnight welcomed …

“The arts are merely a decoration imposed on the top of human life, they do not express it.” Art is the vessel of permanence and ephemerality. In ‘To the Lighthouse’, …

“If Shakespeare had never existed,” he asked, “would the world have differed so much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilisation depend upon great men?” Virginia Woolf …

If there’s one thing that’s on everybody’s mind these days – it’s politics. Who said what, who did what, who trumped who (ha), who’s bad and who’s good. This is …

We’re all too familiar with the touching postcards sent between soldiers and their loved ones, nourished with love and fear. As their only form of communication, postcards held as much …

Best described as a ghost story set in Victorian Exeter, ‘One for Sorrow’ depicts Thomas Flay, a textile merchant at a time when textiles made Exeter one of the most …

Why do John Le Carré’s novels translate so well to TV and Film media? John Le Carré has been a pioneer of the literary espionage genre for more than 50 …

In the midst of a party, drunken bohemians decide to put on a spontaneous production of ‘Twelfth Night’. From there, we get the twisted plot of confused identities, unrequited love, …