Waltzing past a bookshop window, anything with ‘Shakespeare’ on the cover is guaranteed to keep you foxtrotting elsewhere. As Bill Bryson concisely put it, the wealth of written material available on Shakespeare is enormous. You […]
Classic Of The Week: The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
It wasn’t the best title. In the bleak days of World War One, the last thing the public needed was a book entitled The Saddest Story. Ford’s publisher urged a more tactful approach, to […]
Books: New Review: How To Be Danish by Patrick Kingsley
By all accounts, Patrick Kingsley is an impressive man. At the mere age of 23 he became one of the youngest journalists at The Guardian and he continues to write features and report from […]
Theatre | Interview with Ole Brekke, Co-Founder of Copenhagen's Commedia School
“Watching students discover their own ecstatic joy of playing is the key ingredient of my life” With a flux of Nordic noir drama, Ben Meagher, a third-year art-history student spending the year in Copenhagen, […]
Books: New Review: Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Many people would give their life to attain a fraction of the achievements and talent Christopher Hitchens had. With over twenty books published; reportage, essays, literary criticism and columns, ‘Hitch’ really did give his […]
Cultured Alcoholism: Withnail and I
With a salute to cult-cinema, Ben Meagher absorbs the alcohol fumes seeping from his TV set and asks: what can we learn from the greatest alcoholics known to mankind? Awakening in a cesspit of drool […]