Saturday 5th 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 –...

The full blankness of space

Emmanuelle Soffe discusses the misconceptions of modern art galleries and the White Cube effect

“It’s as though I’m being watched”

Cressida Peever’s mystery explores the eery blankness of receiving anonymous postcards

“Smash the shit out of it”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to The Big Moon about their manic tour

Preview: Splendour

Georgia Reddington looks forward to what promises to be a fast-paced and tension-filled production

Review: House of Bernarda Alba

Nina Sandelson is struck by this eerie adaptation of Lorca’s classic in Cellar

Review: Common People Oxford

Oxford’s May Bank Holiday festival offering is sun-drenched and musically eclectic

Review: Everybody Wants Some!! – antiquated male stereotypes

Zach Leather considers Linklater’s latest nostalgia-soaked '80s escapade, finding it dominated by one-dimensional men in fear of emasculations

Preview: A Streetcar Named Desire

David Hills looks forward to this meticulously thought-out production

Is there hope for pop music?

William Shaw shows the value of Public Service Broadcasting

A Beginner’s Guide to… Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Sophie Jordan introduces us to Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

10 songs you probably didn’t know were covers

Daniel Curtis and Richard Birch discuss the songs more famous than their predecessors

Preview: No Exit

Alex Barasch is impressed by this engaging approach to Sartre's most famous work

Preview: Colin & Katya

Mischa Andreski is blown away by a rehearsal of Jack Clover's latest play

Review: Doctor Faustus

At times disjointed but otherwise an altogether commendable production

London, books and bears: an interview with Michael Bond

“The first time I nearly died was on a Wednesday.” Michael Bond, a smiling and well-dressed 90 year old, leaned forward as he talked....

Rewind: Nigeria’s 2013 Same Sex Marriage Act

Sam Purnell assesses the political sway which surrounded the 2013 Nigerian same sex marriage ban

Review: Woyzeck

Richard Birch is impressed by a production that goes where few dare to go

“I’m not gonna be crying anymore”

Richard Birch investigates the sway of alcohol dependence, and the power it can hold over you

What is an elephant, to you?

Simran Uppal argues for the universality of religious experiences – including in Oxford nightlife

Review: Rhinoceros

There aren’t many plays that leave you speechless as the actors take their final bow: still less that fully deserve a standing ovation. Rhinoceros...

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