You Should Be Reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
With the New Year having ushered in 2021, Noah Gassas promotes Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations as the perfect book to begin the year and better yourself.
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Takashi Murakami is Taking Contemporary Art to New Heights
With works that revel in their colour, complexity, and contradictions, Takashi Murakami uses every medium and inspiration available to constantly redefine his own style. Furthermore, the cultural significance of his works and ideas are unrivaled in the current art sphere. In this introduction to the artist, learn about the what, why, and how of his unique creative output.
“Spring” back into reading: The post-winter reading list
Now that spring is beginning to show its face, Joel discusses what books you can read to complement the move into the new season.
2017: Editor’s year in review
Jack Collard, Editor, summarises the past exciting year in Berkeley Squares.
Review: The Death of Stalin
A tragicomedy of epic proportions, featuring “puddles of indignity”, Mozart concertos, and mass murder.
Review: The Hate U Give
Joel Sodzi opines on Angie Thomas’ New York bestseller, The Hate U Give: exploring the all-too-common story of a black life taken unjustly, and one girl’s mission to gain the justice that was so cruelly denied.
The Everyman experience
The Everyman cinema on Bristol’s Whiteladies Road is the antithesis of the soulless modern cineplexes many of us are used to. However, is the “Everyman experience” worth the additional cost?
Goodbye Dynasty: Eulogy to a restaurant
Berkeley Squares’ food critic reminisces about his favourite restaurant, soon to be closed due to Bristol’s ambitious Redcliffe Quarter development.
Bristol Christmas Market 2016
Undoubtedly one of Bristol’s most wonderful events, the German Christmas Market returns to Bristol for 2016.
The Occupy Movement: A Protest with Legacy
New York City played host to the first ever Occupy event in 2011. Five years later, what did it achieve and is the movement still relevant?
