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Marc Pacitti

The Top 12 – 3rd Week

Marc Pacitti looks ahead to the top cultural events of 3rd week.

Let’s Not Get Hitched

Marc Pacitti is unimpressed by Richard Seymour's partisan attitude in 'Unhitched: The Trial Of Christopher Hitchens'

Balliol JCR confesses "major oversight"

Students not informed of masonry works until day before choosing rooms

The Top 12: 2nd Week

Marc Pacitti looks ahead to the top cultural events of the week ahead.

Authorial Immunity

Marc Pacitti asks why we feel the need to excuse our authors for their prejudices.

How Not to Write About Music

Marc Pacitti despairs at the current state of music journalism

Review: The Oxford University Orchestra

Marc Pacitti enjoys the best that Oxford has to offer.

Who’s Afraid of Frightened Rabbit?

Marc Pacitti interviews the Scottish folk-rockers

If You Liked… Album by Girls

In a new regular feature, Marc Pacitti recommends an artist on the basis of a well-loved album

Review: Uno, Dos, Tre (Green Day)

Marc Pacitti puts the knife into the ageing punks' latest offering.

Review: A.C. Newman – Shut Down The Streets

Marc Pacitti enjoys the Canadian songsmith's latest offering

Interview: Japandroids

Marc Pacitti talks tours, Pitchfork and incendiary devices with band Japandroids

Review: The Castaways of the Fol Espoir

An anarcho-socialist theatre commune who live in a disused factory turn out to be theatrical visionaries

Review: Kyla La Grange – Ashes

Marc Pacitti finds little to love in a disappointing debut album.