Thursday 3rd 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 –...

Review: Eye In The Sky – a warning about the costs of war

Apart from the climax, Rickman’s final film doesn’t have much ‘thrill’ for a thriller, writes Alistair Badenoch

‘You’ve not read this article?’

Markus Beeken lashes out against literary snobbery

Review: The Weir

There is a certain type of absolute silence that only comes with good storytelling – it is the silence of held breath, of absolute...

A dichotomy as old as time

Rabindranath Tagore’s timeless novel The Home and the World is perhaps the most underrated work in Indian literature. Published in 1916 in the febrile...

Interview: We Are Scientists

Daniel Curtis got the lowdown on touring, synths and songwriting

OxFolk Review: ‘In The Air Or The Earth’

‘In The Air Or The Earth’, the latest release by the Askew Sisters, is less a simple listening experience than an immersive storytelling session-...

Radiohead – ‘Burn the Witch’: First impressions

Harri Adams examines Radiohead's surprise new track

Interview: The Amazons

Richard Birch talks guitars and garish tattoos with Matt Thompson

Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 – like microwave moussaka

Comedies based on stereotypes are ripe for criticism, but Miriam Nemmaoui managed to see beyond this, finding her own family represented in the Portokalos’

A Beginner’s Guide to… I Said Yes

Daniel Curtis talks I Said Yes

Review: Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Ewan Flintham is entertained and impressed by this rendition of Dario Fo's political satire

In defence of pop music

Emma Leech takes aim at music prejudice and indie snobbery against the mainstream

Preview: The Weir

“Tell me a ghost story.” It only takes five small words to set the scene in this rehearsal of ‘The Weir’- a story of...

Competition: Win tickets to Common People 2016

Win tickets to Common People Festival, Oxford (28th - 29th May) via Twitter

Preview: Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Callum Luckett finds Dario Fo's farce both hilarious and relevant

The Making of Bench: contribution and collaboration

The cast and crew of Bench reflect on the collaborative process of film-making, women behind and in-front of the camera, and cinema's power over how we perceive mental health disorders

Florio: a Poet’s Dream

Benn Sheridan attends an Oxford hidden gem - a society for drunken poets and lyricists

Review: Hush – a cat and mouse fight to the death

Hush negotiates the established conventions of the home-invasion horror concerning female victimhood, writes Louise Howland

Review: Miles Ahead – this is no hagiography

Miles Ahead successfully connects the deeply flawed private man with his public persona, the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century, writes Altair Brandon-Salmon

Rewind: Pravda

Alex Oscroft reflects on the significance of the 1912 publication of Pravda

Follow us