South-eastern Europeans today know they are truly part of the old continent. These are the nations that had to keep fighting to protect their European identity from when the Ottoman Empire took over i...

You’re in Oxford, and you’re reading about European literature. It’s a fairly safe bet that, as a child, you had one or two embarrassingly precocious moments. Don’t worry; they’ll make charming anecdo...

Decadence knows no tomorrow…it is childish to believe in the writer’s immortality, deceitful to lack the courage to sustain one’s intellectual pleasure. Let us take pleasure, therefore…”

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It's been forty years since Martin Luther King's ideals of peaceful protest dissolved with his assassination, forty years since rioters tore across Paris and Washington while war raged in Vietnam and,...

Yesterday I walked into Waterstones and flicked through the Satanic Verses. Nobody batted an eyelid, and I could have bought it, no questions asked. However, this book is the reason that a fatwa remai...

Theatre has been used as an outlet for radicalism and controversy as much as any other literature in the UK, be it due to a naked Harry Potter in Equus or political dramas such as those by David Hare ...

We think of art as a finished product: the painting, the book, the movie. But what if you could think of the artist as a work of art too? Michel Foucault certainly thought you could. He proclaimed tha...

With this issue's visual theme in mind, I hereby demand that you treat your eager optic nerves to some stimulation, perhaps by taking them on a trip to Modern Art Oxford, where, until the 2nd of March...

'The Inklings' are hardly a new group on the proverbial block. As a legendary circle of Oxford academics of the 1930s and '40s, the name has all the fusty air of elbow-patch and pipe-smoke-infused Oxo...

Can pictures make books a more enriching experience? Michael Docherty thinks so…

In my youth or, more accurately, when I was a bored 15-year-old dozing my way through GCSE Art, I decide...