Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’
Midnight releases, broken sales records, cosplaying wizards: the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was a flashback to the summer of 2007, when Harry Potter and the Deathly … Continue reading
Review: ‘George and the Blue Moon’ — The Oxford Culture Review
In 2007, Lucy Hawking teamed up with her superstar physicist father Stephen to write a popular science trilogy for children. The George series, aimed at readers aged 8+, turned out … Continue reading
Review: Tom Stoppard on text and performance — The Oxford Culture Review
How much “Shakespeare” is there in a Shakespeare play? A facetious question, perhaps. But it’s a question that is peculiarly specific to the theatre — how much of the author … Continue reading
Review: ‘The Marriage of Kim K’ — The Oxford Culture Review
The Marriage of Figaro, and Kim Kardashian. If this combination sounds incongruous, it is perhaps because of the cultural value attached to opera in the twenty-first century, fitting into a … Continue reading
Review: ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ — The Oxford Culture Review
Twenty seconds was all it took for the Sunday matinee of The Phantom of the Opera to sell out, after Milk & Two Sugars Productions announced this last-minute addition to … Continue reading
Fan-fiction: fictie van een grote fan
Armada Ernest Cline In 2011 kwam, volledig uit het niets, een boek over games als nooit tevoren: Ernest Clines debuut Ready Player One. Het dystopische verhaal, dat zich afspeelt in … Continue reading
Exhausting Star Trek parody
It is a surprising move, to say the least. Steven Erikson, author of the world-famous high fantasy series The Malazan Book of the Fallen, has written a science fiction parody. … Continue reading
Review: ‘The Buried Giant’
Originally posted on The Oxford Culture Review:
Kazuo Ishiguro’s last work, Never Let Me Go (2005), forayed successfully into science fiction, projecting a grim future in which human beings are…
Intense pre-university course that should’ve been properly updated
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide to Science’s Most Puzzling Discovery J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate One wonders why popular physics books do not come with illustrations more often. In … Continue reading
