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Between beer gardens and picnics: Climate Culture Care at the Ashmolean

When I returned to Oxford this term, just as England teased us with the sixth heat-wave of the year, I found myself at a loose end. With the deadline for two vacation essays still far in the distance, the sun lit up the sign for Soma Surovi Jannat’s Ashmolean Now exhibition, Climate Culture Care.
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“What is a good life?”: The Standard of Living in review 

“What is a good life?” This axiological question, asked earnestly in the opening lines of James Graham’s The Standard of Living – playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket until December 12 – is often overlooked by the fractured and hyper-specialised discipline of economics.
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Diverse voices: ‘Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah’ by Miljenko Jergović 

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into...
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Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...
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Faye Heron reviews this term's Playhouse show which she finds serves to bring up important social issues whilst simultaneously being vigorously entertaining

The Oxford Revue: Best of the Fringe Review – ‘these are emerging talents’

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The Threepenny Opera Preview – ‘promises to be exhilarating’

This term's Playhouse show paints a heightened portrait of the inner-city's criminal underworld.

Lessons From Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino

A retrospective look at this controversial project reminds us of the danger and importance of risk-taking in music.

‘A Star Is Born’ as Bradley Cooper makes an impressive directorial debut

"It's the same story told over and over; all an artist can do is say how they see it"

Bringing Doctor Who out of the past

Regeneration, one of Doctor Who’s most iconic plot ideas, bakes the theme of rebirth in the show’s very DNA, yet it is important to...

Interview: OUDS President Francesca Amewudah-Rivers

Cesca Echlin meets this year's OUDS President to discuss post-Medea hype, the need for increased representation in theatre, and what she wants to change about Oxford student drama.

Phenomenally Intricate: Iglooghost

With his recent releases, Iglooghost takes experimental electronic music to the next level

Krypton: Reinventing the Superhero genre

By virtue of being a prequel, Krypton already had critics poised to question whether we really needed a TV show exploring Superman’s homeworld. Surely...

Brockhampton: The Internet’s First Boyband

‘Met all my friends through Kanye West and I ain’t met him yet’.

The Bodyguard: Recovering from the TV event of the year

It’s not hard to figure out why the nation has been so gripped by The Bodyguard this September. The show is a political thriller...

The appeal of dystopian drama

Why have we produced so many stories about the end of the world as we know it?

Taking Oxford by storm: the Magic Gang sells out the O2

The Magic Gang aren't just another band - they're something much more unique

‘The Fishermen’ Review – a ‘mesmerising’ and ‘almost biblical’ tale

A story of Nigerian brotherhood frames personal and national tragedy

Coming to Oxford: Shy FX

“I got fired because they wanted me to clean the toilets and I weren’t really on that.”

Crazy Rich Asians review — a rom-com deserving of the big-screen

Whether it's a landmark in Asian representation on film, a slap in the face to Netflix, or a great romantic-comedy, Crazy Rich Asians can be enjoyed by pretty much anyone

Neglected discontents: what did Oxford’s most famous students really experience?

The University has a longstanding tradition of exalting its most famous alumni, but the truth of their time here may not be as pleasant as history remembers.

‘No Offence’ and ‘Antinuous: Boy Made God’ at the Ashmolean

A review of the museum's latest exhibitions which are dedicated to telling LGBTQ+ stories

Fandom: democracy or tyranny?

Hollywood's decisions have become increasingly determined by internet fandoms
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