Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

The Source Cici Zhang -

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

Art Dara Mohd -

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

Art Josie Stern -

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

Music Tom Cockburn -

A day in the life of… a lighting director

I came to Oxford with very little backstage experience. It’s really easy to get into the scene—TAFF (the University network of backstage crew) is...

“If you’d told me a year ago I would never have believed it”

Katie Sayer chats to Callum Cameron, the writer and star of They Built It, No One Came – coming to Oxford following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe and a sell-out week in London

An odd mix of Sophocles, Stoppard and Wilde

Katie Sayer gives four stars to Simon Callow's revival of a 1970s classic

Dispatches: ‘Marooned between past and present, not here’

A short story of everyday escapism, by Izzy Smith

Fresh ideas abound in new Netflix original ‘The OA’

Priya Khaira-Hanks is intrigued by this enigmatic new sci-fi series

A day in the life of… an assistant director

Rebekah King describes her role assistant directing Brontë, Polly Teale’s successful 2005 period drama

Rewind: “Our greatest work may be found in our escape”

Carmen Martinez explores the dawdles and doodles of Dr Seuss' Oxford days

Tolkien and ‘the problems of another place’

Sandy Elliot makes the case for art in all its uselessness

Becoming a metropolitan through life in slow motion

Maddison Sumner discusses her experience of moving from the town to the city

“An aspirational first performance”

Jacob Greenhouse is impressed by 'Blatavsky's Tower', the first production from newly founded company

“A little-known gem”

Thomas Player gives four stars to 'Dear Brutus', an underrated classic

Dispatches: faces and encounters in a letter from New York

Altair Brandon-Salmon reflects on finding the familiar and unexpected in a new city

In the age of franchises, are originals dead?

Calum Bradshaw questions the decline of film innovation in recent years

Interview: A.C. Grayling

John Maier in conversation with A.C. Grayling about New Atheism, analytic philosophy, and the EU

Same theme, new style in ‘Better Call Saul’

Sandy Elliot lauds 'Better Call Saul,' the brilliant 'Breaking Bad' prequel

“Sharp humour with profound philosophical underpinnings”

Giovanni Musella looks ahead at a new production of Blavatsky's Tower

The twin trends of remake-mania and sequelitis

Matthew Vautrey tackles Hollywood’s recent spate of franchise films and finds that not all nightmares are created equal

OxFilm: your script

Úna O'Sullivan gives some tips about how to get the perfect script for your student film

Irresponsible escapists and the architecture of power

Thomas Thorne considers how escapism may be a powerful force for transgression

Is travel the only way we can set ourselves free?

Alex Yeandle reflects on his experiences of travel and escapism in Slovakia

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