Wednesday 13th August 2025

Culture

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine, Melbourne, rocks up to London in 1980, writes 'wear makeup everyday' on his New Year's...

St Anne’s goes All-Steinway: A purposeful and bold commitment to music

In a move that lives up to its motto of ‘Consulto et Audacter’ (purposefully...

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much...

Reading Oxford books in Oxford

For those who have not even set foot in Oxford, the city still lives...

Review: Summer and Smoke

James Lamming is delighted by the best show he has seen in Oxford

OxFolk Reviews: Faustus – Death and other Animals

Ben Ray looks at the UK folk three-piece's latest release

Review: Class

Priya Khaira-Hanks says Class is like the old glory days of Doctor Who, but with a twist

Review: Henry V

Sam Luker Brown has some qualms about this ambitious production at Corpus Christi

The end of the film reel

Daniel Curtis refuses to feel any sense of nostalgia for the state of the remake-filled film industry

The enduring value of Diamond Dogs

Matt Roberts crawls through the outpourings of Bowie praise to look at a long-forgotten album

Emotional electronica

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is touched by the humanity in James Blake’s live show, as, for once, the musician/producer emerges from behind his laptop

Review: The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Benjamin Davies approves of the Booker winner with reservations

Review: Queer Cabaret

Nina Crisp enjoys a night which showcases a variety of queer talent—and all in support of a good cause

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

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