The importance of chance encounters
‘So much beautiful time’: Olivia Gatwood and healing with poetry
Uncovering Cambridge’s hidden art haven
A guide to Cambridge’s coat of arms
Feature
Jen Price reflects on her first year at Cambridge, and the poet who helped get her through it
Opinion
Colette Grice shares the story of the little known gallery that might be the key to reinvigorating Cambridge art
Reading List
Books that should never be read (but unfortunately have)
Christmas
Feeling nostalgic, Felix Armstrong examines the Christmas term in books and film
Guide
Whatever your degree, your refuge from that essay deadline is just one stanza away, writes Heather Leigh
Review
Jen Price reviews the Heong Gallery’s new exhibition, ‘Rasheed Araeen: A British Story’
Review
Four shortlisted artists explore who we are, and how we are remembered, in this exhibition at the Tate Britain
Feature
Ben Birch delves into the history of Kettle’s Yard, and the man whose ‘homely exactness’ inspired it
Book Review
The Irish author makes some risky moves in a bid to move on from her previous successes, but they pay off
The Agonies
Joe Short sends Eve another letter, relating the joys and perils of being read to by Donna Tartt
Review
Evan Scott explores the Shanghai-based artist’s fusion of Buddhist philosophy with East Asian pop culture
Reading List
Our Arts team tells you what books they’ve taken with them on holiday
Off the Reading List
Laila Hussey confronts her fears, delving into the assumed averageness of Johnathan Lethem
Sydney Heintz visits famous artists’ houses, questioning what drives us to preserve these spaces
Review
Laila Hussey discovers a mosaic of striking work that sticks in the mind and will linger through its legacy
Postscripts
In the first instalment of her column, Eve Connor probes the poetry of Lucy Ansell
Loveday Cookson speaks to the curators behind the Fitzwilliam’s exciting new exhibition housing Botticelli’s ‘Venus and Mars’
Review
Saranka Maheswaran enters into an exhibition with only one rule for submissions: there aren’t any rules
Book Review
Poppy Miller delves into Laura Coffey’s Enchanted Islands, exploring what the Odyssey offers us today
Space Invaders
Loveday Cookson explores the technicolour cosiness of Poppy Jo Lee’s room
What keeps drawing us back to the fiery cultural classic?
Space Invaders
Emily’s room weaves together sketches, plants, and bits and bobs into a tapestry of potential
Ailsa McTernan examines Botticelli’s timeless depiction of love
