Tuesday 3rd June 2025

Culture

Telling stories about telling stories: Previewing ‘The Antipodes’

In a windowless room in an abstract part of Oriel, I sat in on a rehearsal for Annie Baker’s The Antipodes (2018), on at the Pilch this term. There...
Theatre Emma Scanlon -

A Pelican Crossing Somewhere on Green Dragon Lane

"The passage of time is a bloodthirsty hound."
The Source Briony Arnott -

Doctor Zhivago: The banned book the CIA smuggled across the Iron Curtain

“May it make its way around the world. You are hereby invited to watch...
Books Kavya Kapadia -

Sally Rooney, a Flaubert for today?

Like millions of other people in recent years, I have fallen victim to the...
Books Richard Kuehl -
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Review: Parquet Courts – Human Performance

Lorenzo Edwards-Jones is pleasantly surprised by Parquet Courts' latest release

Review: Victoria – the one-take film exhibits electric momentum

For Louise Howland, Victoria was less a film and more a transcendental journey through time, space, youth and love

Should music be used for political ends?

Richard Birch contextualises the Rolling Stones' recent visit to Cuba

Review: Zayn Malik – Mind of Mine

Harry Smith found more to like in the former One Directioner's debut than he bargained for

Delving into Dickens: A literary love affair

Markus Beeken considers his begrudging bromance with one of the most famous writers in history

Review: Grimsby – crude and vulgar

Sacha Baron Cohen's reliance on tired 'chav' stereotypes was so bad, Ellie Gomes was forced to cover her eyes

Words – Cherwell fiction

Fiction: 'She tosses the burning end over the edge of the cliff. We watch it fall, hit rocks softly, anti-climatic.'

Common People festival playlist

Ellen Peirson-Hagger compiles the tunes she hopes to hear at Oxford's Common People Festival

Heaney’s Aeneid: When is a Translation not a Translation?

Benn Sheridan discusses Heaney's Final work, a translation of Aeneid Book VI, and finds Virgil a little bit upstaged

Review: Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression

Daniel Curtis was more impressed than depressed by Iggy Pop's latest

Review: The Witch – stands apart from jump-scare drivel

Louise Howland regards newcomer Robert Eggers as an arthouse horror hero after an impressive directional debut

Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane – choice itself is the crisis

Sarah Lynch finds parallels between Michelle's tough decision between two monsters, and the dilemma US voters currently face

Should we share our cultural pleasures?

Ellen Peirson-Hagger reflects on the perils of associating art with friends and significant others

Why the blues won’t die

Richard Birch reviews Matt and Phred's Jazz Club, Manchester

Old is Always Better

Markus Beeken gets nostalgic about Second-Hand books

Review: High Rise – both style and substance

Jem Bartholomew reviews Ben Wheatley's stylish and meaty adaptation of the J.G. Ballard's novel High Rise

Is This Art? The conclusion

Charlie Willis wonders if this column is an art form in itself

House of Cards Season Four Review

Netflix's flagship drama is a fantasy of surveillance on the political nightmares we are living through right now

"I’m as fucked off as you are"

In the wake of the Roundhouse ticket controversy, Daniel Curtis argues that Radiohead have only themselves to blame

A Panoramic View of Morocco

The music, culture and history explored
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