The crowd is buzzing with anticipation, it is a sea of shiny silver and black dresses. The crowd hushes into silence as Hohnen Ford, the opening act for the tour, takes the stage. Entering alone and ...

Is the pain of being an artist worth it? This question hangs over the beautifully fleeting 57-minute film adaption of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back, an enchanting story about hard work, failure, ...

Fashion icons, as previously discussed in my column, are defined by their individuality, authenticity, and creativity. These characteristics are the necessary principles of drag – a form of art, ...

North Korea, also known as DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) has shielded itself in secrecy, through a closed-off economy and the fact that a tourist can only visit if they are partaking in ...

University vice-chancellors have pressed for further annual tuition fee increases in line with inflation after the Office for Students (OfS) warned that 75% of institutions would be running deficits ...

I always consider an outfit incomplete without matching jewellery. A pair of earrings, a necklace, or a bracelet can add the perfect finishing touch and do so much to elevate the look. However, most ...

American poet, Mary Oliver, was famous for her writing centred around the quiet and mundane occurrences in life, particularly within the natural world. Born and raised in Cleveland, in the early ...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. A day when the sun cast its indifferent light over Beijing, yet the flag outside the Japanese Embassy stood mournfully at half-mast, draped in the ...

Classical retellings and literature based off ancient mythology has been a theme in literature for a long time: it is also a theme that transcends genre. There are many works of fiction, non-fiction, ...

Assessment systems at Oxford and Cambridge may disadvantage female students who are more risk averse and can suffer from premenstrual syndrome (PMS), a report has suggested. The research, published by ...

Over the centuries, women’s true selves have been trivialised and suppressed. Only when female bodies fulfil the male gaze of film and literature, can it be discussed or presented to us, which is ...

Understandably, you might wonder what relevance a Japanese poet from the 1600s still has today, or why we should read centuries-old haiku when Anglophone writers like Chaucer or Shakespeare are often ...