THE BOOK CLUB

Our contributors got in touch with their favourite book, TV, film, music and podcast outputs from 2018. We hope it encourages you to...

Celebrating the Ordinary and the Forgotten French title: Visages, Villages (2017) Director: Agnes Varda Intergenerational friendships are...

Food writer Sheri Castle wrote; “you can Google a recipe, you cannot Google a good food story”. Here lies the important distinction...

From Elizabeth Day’s celebration of what hasn’t gone to plan in life in How to Fail, to the revealing tale of life inside the terror...

Persian Letters: Montesquieu for the Modern Day? “We have a problem in this country; it’s called Muslims”, said one person to Donald...

After a fantastic month of unpredictable football, the 2018 Russian World Cup sadly drew to a close on Sunday. So, as the cinematic...

It seems that for years now, people have been warning us of the decline of poetry. Dwindling book sales and the advent of social...

I recently went to see Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, and thought it was brilliant. I was charmed by the characters, captivated by the...

March 2018 was a significant month for two reasons: 1) Cambridge Analytica illegally harvested the Facebook data of more than 87 million...

In March, writer, actor and comedian Romesh Ranganathan penned an article for the Guardian in which he begged us all to “stop banging on...

Since its publication in The New Yorker in December, "Cat Person" has divided dinner tables, friendship groups and twitter feeds across...

The rise of social media and its impact on our psyche is a topic considered with increasing fascination and frequency over recent years....

If you are looking for a podcast that gives you an in-depth analysis of the Middle East today, then Jeremy Bowen’s ‘Our Man in the Middle...

At age 17 I wrote my 'personal statement', a document of (mainly false) self advertisement attempting to convince universities about why...

To celebrate International Women’s Day on the 8th March, we posted five of our favourite female authors over five different days on...