A DIFFERENT LOOK AT THE CITY Novelist Patrick McGuinness explores the many different sides of Oxford 23 Jul 2021
A FUNNY BREXIT NOVEL, AT LAST For sheer absurdity and slapstick, no one serves it up quite like Mark Hanlon in The Pong of Power 22 May 2019
A HELL OF A SHOCK Danny Dorling considers the real meaning of Brexit and how it relates to the end of Empire 19 Sep 2018
ALUMNI STORIES: 'I NEEDED TO LEARN THE BASICS FIRST' Evie Dunmore (St Antony’s, 2008) talks about becoming a published novelist 21 Mar 2019
ALUMNI STORIES: 'I WANT TO HELP MAKE CHILDREN'S BOOKS MORE REPRESENTATIVE' We spoke to Jasmine Richards (LMH, 1999) about getting BAME representation into children's books. To celebrate Black History Month 2019, Jasmine spoke to us again about inclusivity at Oxford and what BHM means to her. 22 Jan 2019
BOOKS FOR MARCH From Cuban economics to Albanian folk music, alumni books for the month... 3 Mar 2020
BOOKS FOR NOVEMBER Whether locked down or not, the written word may well be your friend in November 5 Nov 2020
CAN THE WEST SAVE ITSELF? A Mansfield alum argues the case for more quiet time and a spiritual approach to the climate crisis 16 Jul 2021
COLLEGE GARDENS IN 2018 QUAD talks to the two alumni behind the defining book on Oxford college gardens 25 Sep 2018
CORPUS AND THE GREAT WAR Harriet Patrick, Assistant Archivist at Corpus, has published An Oxford College at War, Corpus Christi College, 1914-18 (Profile Editions, 2018) 19 Dec 2018
DEFENDER OF THE RIGHT TO DISAGREE Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC recounts a remarkable legal career and discusses his collection of radical literature 22 Oct 2019
FESTIVE BOOKS QUAD’s Off the Shelf series for December 2021 turns towards seasonal matters, with something for everyone 30 Nov 2021
GALILEO IN OXFORD The re-discovery of a neglected painting sheds light on the scientific revolution and the delicate politics of Oxford during the English Civil War 13 Jan 2021
HISTORIAN YASMIN KHAN TALKS ABOUT HER DEBUT NOVEL EDGWARE ROAD Oxford historian Yasmin Khan discusses her debut novel, Edgware Road 28 Mar 2022
HOMINIDS BEFORE HUMANS Archaeology is solving huge mysteries about the evolution of humans, says a remarkable new book 19 Apr 2021
INTERVIEW: AMIT CHAUDHURI Richard Lofthouse interviews the Indian novelist, critic and composer Amit Chaudhuri 15 Oct 2018
JOHN GRAY ON CATS AND THE MEANING OF LIFE The philosopher John Gray takes a feline stance on life and death 4 Jan 2021
JOHN GRAY RETURNS TO OXFORD Celebrated philosopher and former Oxford politics professor John Gray (Exeter, 1968), visited to discuss and publicise his latest book Seven Types of Atheism 19 Jun 2018
LEARNING FROM THE END OF THE COLD WAR Oxford Cold War specialist Archie Brown reflects on the human actors who ended the Cold War 26 Nov 2020
LIGHTED WINDOWS FOR DARKENED NIGHTS Peter Davidson discusses his new book about the literary and artistic theme of the lighted window 2 Nov 2021
MATCHING HER STRIDE TO 'HOMER'S NIMBLE GALLOP' Emily Wilson’s widely acclaimed new translation of Homer’s The Odyssey is the first in English by a woman 7 Dec 2017
MERIAN THE PIONEER NATURALIST Restoring the German scientific pioneer to her rightful standing 21 Aug 2018
NOT FAR FROM BRIDESHEAD A remarkable new book brings Oxford between the two world wars back to life again 17 May 2022
OFF THE SHELF: MARCH 2022 Books that shed light on the Ukraine war, slavery, people trafficking and urban geography 3 Mar 2022
OFF THE SHELF: MAY 2022 This month, a novel about female identity, a brilliant architectural history of Oxford and the re- translation of the original Bambi novel from 1923 4 May 2022
OXFORD IS A MECCA FOR CRIME FICTION…DISCUSS! Crime author Andy Griffee ponders the enormous quantity of Oxford-situated crime fiction, asking why the city seems so perfect a back drop for skulduggery and misdemeanour 13 Jan 2022
OXFORD UNRAVELS SALVATOR MUNDI Scholarship is chasing the controversial work of art attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi 27 Aug 2019
OXFORD'S EXOTIC ANIMALS Some animal anecdotes relating to Oxford from ‘Menagerie’ by Caroline Grigson 8 May 2018
OXFORD, SPARKLING CIDER AND THE MÉTHODE CHAMPENOISE Cider was years ahead of champagne for its bubbles, argues James Crowden (Magdalen, 1977) 9 Aug 2021
REDISCOVERING NEWTON'S FAITH Rob Iliffe’s new book argues that religion is just as crucial as scientific discovery to understanding Isaac Newton 20 Dec 2017
RUNNING FOR MENTAL HEALTH Phil Hewitt (Hertford, 1982) was stabbed and left for dead...here's his story 7 Mar 2019
THE COMING WAR OVER SOCIAL MEDIA Ahead of publication, Richard Lofthouse speaks to the author of an explosive new book about Facebook 7 Jun 2018
THE SUDDEN IMPORTANCE OF PLACE QUAD editor Richard Lofthouse discusses recent books arguing for a stronger sense of place 8 Feb 2021
WHAT DOES BREXIT REALLY MEAN? It's the final convulsion of empire, say two Oxford academics 24 Jan 2019
WHEN OSCAR WILDE CAME TO OXFORD Michèle Mendelssohn’s new book concerns Oscar Wilde in America, but his time at Oxford was a sort of dress rehearsal 17 Jul 2018
