Saturday 25th April 2026

Culture

Does ‘Euphoria’ no longer speak to our generation?

Should I have been watching Euphoria’s first season as an innocent, bright-eyed 14-year-old? Probably not. At the time, I thought that the chaotic lives of the characters were what...

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by...

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.

‘People are so hungry to create together’: Lisa Ko on going analogue, crafting, and writing the future

It’s 11:02am in New York when Lisa Ko appears on the video call. In Oxford, the sun is almost down.

Rediscovering Halloween

Emma Leech looks back on Halloween’s transience through her adolescence

OxFolk review: ‘The Ties that Bind’

Ben Ray looks at Mawkin's latest album, The Ties that Bind

Preview: Guys and Dolls

Teddy Briggs is swept off her feat by an all singing all dancing production of the iconic musical

Oxford Film Network: Open Screen

Una O’Sullivan is drawn to Oxford’s filmmaking community at a Cowley short film ‘open mic’ night

Review: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Benjamin Davies takes pleasure in the wait but is disappointed by the overwraught ending

In defence of non-fiction literature

Daniel Villar thinks the Nobel Prize committee has neglected non-fiction

Cherwell Film School: Writing a Screenplay

Cherwell Film School elucidates the art of screenplay writing.

Cherwell Film School: Eight Key Film-making Roles

Cherwell Film School tells you about the core team required to start your film-making dreams.

Live review: Ward Thomas at the O2 Academy

Coming onto the stage with an undeniably acoustic sound, Ward Thomas feel strangely out of place with the Bullingdon’s notorious grimy vibe. Somewhere behind...

Brideshead, revisited: Oxford then and now

Altair Brandon-Salmon compares Charles Ryder’s day with our own

Backstage with Claudia Graham

Sapphire Shoferpoor talks to Claudia Graham about production, funding, and reining in directors

A treasure trove of unrequited love

Unrequited love has become something of a hobby. I say ‘love’ for ease and aesthetics— ‘infatuations borne out of lust, boredom and having read...

Review: The River

Nina Sandelson is entranced by new writing examining obsession and trout fishing

America’s poet laureate: Bob Dylan

Phylis Stein on the sublime lyrics that make Dylan a Nobel Prize winner

Backstage dialogue with Sarah Wright

Sapphire Shoferpoor talks directing, writing, and time management with third year linguist Sarah Wright

Fiction: “Alone it is far harder to imagine”

Alexandra Illingworth explores the poignancy of growing up with a fraught sibling relationship

Oh, Albarn, stop playing with me!

Daniel Curtis just can’t wait for the new Gorillaz album

OxFolk Reviews: ‘Cycle’

If I’m being honest, Lady Maisery’s new album ‘Cycle’ came as a surprise to me not because of it’s accomplishment and beauty, but because...

All wound up by a Clockwork Orange

It is always a challenge to adapt a novel’s narrative to the stage. Even more so, when the novel is a dystopia like A...

Review: Anything Goes

This latest production of Anything Goes offers audiences a highly polished sail on the SS American, replete with camp-as-can-be sailors brandishing mops and tap...

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