Culture
Men used to go to war – now they DJ
Why are so many people becoming DJs? This recent obsession has taken the world – and now Oxford – by storm. Love it or hate it, everyone is doing...
Matchstick Cats
Mark and Trev were surrounded on the bed of the truck by old wooden...
The rise of genre fluidity: Is this the death of genre as we know it?
My favourite genre of music: a question I’ve found becoming increasingly difficult to answer...
Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu
"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."
Review: ‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States, and the Middle East 1979-2003’ by Steve Coll
Tyrants should only be brought down by their own people; they become martyrs when brought down by foreigners.
Viva Glasvegas!
Joseph Weir heads to the O2 Academy to talk to Glasvegas at this year's NME Tour
See no evil, hear no evil
Three Monkeys, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's most recent cinematic venture, is imbued with a mesmeric brilliance from start to finish.
American prospects?
Mark Greif, co-editor of cutting-edge literary journal n+1, talks about diverging intellectual spheres and the role of the intellectual in today's society
Anyone for T?
William Kelleher talks to Toddla T at Fuse Night
4.48 Psychosis
An Expressionist take on Sarah Kane's last play misses the point
Serving It Up
Sarah Nerger was impressed by a performance of a student-written play
Taking Control
Cherwell examines the role of the director
Don Carlos
We weigh in on the upcoming adaptation of the Friedrich von Schiller classic
Liberal Facism
Jonah Goldberg's new book Liberal Facism sounds like it ought to be an interesting, though not entirely revolutionary, proposition
Odds and Sods and Death and Dogs
Paul Freestone's tender and humorous photographs find beauty in the mundane and subtly blur the boundaries between the human and the natural
Doubt
John Patrick Shanley's film adaptation of Doubt arguably equals, and quite possibly surpasses, the play upon which it is based
Black Comedy
This production of Black Comedy illuminates Shaffer's script
The Entertainer
John Osborne's historic follow-up to ‘Look Back In Anger' charts the life of Archie Rice, son of smash-hit music hall comedian Billy Rice
Stryding to success
Joseph Weir discovers the story of a DIY label and Tinchy Stryder's rise to stardom
