Monday 7th July 2025

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,...

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.

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

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

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 –...

Home Front: voices left behind

Katie Mennis interviews Isabel Palmer about her collaborative collection

Steven Moffat: A talk at the Oxford Union

"I am rubbish." This was the opening statement of Steven Moffat's talk at the Oxford Union on Monday, and it's an assessment most of...

Planet Earth: Ten Years On

 Paris Jaggers “Today, much has changed.” So says David Attenborough in the opening scene of the BBC’s new sequel to Planet Earth, which first aired...

Review: Doctor Strange

Jonnie Barrow thinks Marvel finally add power to its punch with their latest release

Preview: The Roaring Girl

Alice Robinson is looking forward to an evening of good old-fashioned girl power

W.H. Auden’s return to Christ Church

In the sixth instalment of Through the Looking Glass, Daniel Curtis follows in the footsteps of W.H. Auden

Review: Albert Herring

Bessie Yuill is dazzled by this quintessential Britten in St Peter's chapel

Art review: Unreported Worlds

Ellie Siora is confronted by the familiar in the foreign while questioning what it means to be ‘exotic’ at John’s exhibition

Rewind: Disney’s Fantasia

Bessie Yuill reminds us of the fantastical history of Fantasia

Grappling with graffiti

Jorge López Llorente loses himself in the visual trickery of art and graffiti

Richard Burton’s well trodden boards

In the latest installment of Through the Looking Glass, Daniel Curtis investigates the past of the Burton Taylor Studio

Conjuring some museum magic

Altair Brandon-Salmon is astounded by the Ashmolean’s Islam exhibition, Power and Protection

Review: It Felt Empty

Amaris Proctor is impressed by this immersive and thought-provoking explanation of the human effects of sex trafficking—a four star production

Preview: It Felt Empty

Miriam Nemmaoui looks forward to a hard-hitting and sensitive production

Live review: The Lovely Eggs, Cellar

Ellen Peirson-Hagger looks under the shell of The Lovely Eggs

Getting it right: political commentary and rap

David Lawton highlights the political potential of rap, and consigns folk and punk to the dustbin of history

A dark trend in music documentaries

David Lawton argues that the rebirth of the tortured artist’s image in music documentaries exploits pain

Rewind: The Gunpowder Plot

Thomas Athey seeks to learn the lessons of the Gunpowder Plot

Memes, Trump and MLG

William Shaw analyses the past, present and future of YouTube memes

Preview: Frankenstein

Nina Sandelson comments on this week's bold reimagining of the classic Gothic horror at the O'Reilly

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