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.

Rewind: Winnie-the-Pooh’s 90th birthday

On its 90th anniversary, Ellie Duncan ponders the publication of Winnie-the-Pooh

Barbie: Mind over Mattel?

Olivia Retter writes of the bold female aspirations behind her childhood Barbie

Spotlight: the Edinburgh Fringe

The first thing that strikes you when you get off the train is Edinburgh as a city; this bizarrely layered and ancient city of...

The Cursed Child: ultimate fan fiction?

To get this out of the way: yes, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is not only like a piece of fanfiction, but aims...

OxFolk Reviews: ‘Bird’s Nest’

It isn’t often that you come across instrumental music that is so beautiful that each track feels like brushstrokes in a piece of artwork....

OxFolk Reviews: ‘Old Adam’

“How do stories make us who we are?” This is the surprisingly philosophical question posed to us by Fa Hield in the introduction to...

Interview: Nish Kumar – “A snapshot of what I’m interested in”

Emma Leech talks politics, publicity and publishing with comic Nish Kumar

Review: After the Poet, the Bar

Benn Sheridan delights in the life and language intertwined in Ben Ray’s first poetry collection

Poetry as a necessity and a joy

Katie Mennis celebrates new verse at the Forward Prize for Poetry 2016

Preview: A Clockwork Orange

Olivia Cormack is delightfully disturbed by a preview that leaves her wanting more

Cherwell Film School: Telling a story

Stories are the referential point of film, a good story says something in a coherent and human way in order to relate to real experiences

Troublingly telegenic: Oxford in film

Priya Khaira-Hanks takes issue with the extent of Oxford’s fictional presence.

Interview: John Robins – “There are no real shortcuts”

Emma Leech speaks with comedian John Robins about Oxford, originality, and "lonely Sundays of the soul"

Fiction: “You don’t seem to know anything”

Oliver Baldwin’s monologue explores the day to day terror of making ‘a fresh start’

Willie Healey: star in the making

A true Oxford homeboy, most of Willie J Healey’s music videos comprise, as someone at Zappi’s once told me, of him “pissing around on...

A world in one sentence

Priya Khaira-Hanks rediscovers the startling impact of opening lines in children’s fiction

Rewind: The English Bible

Amy Booth examines the seminal 1535 release of the English bible

A fresher’s guide to Oxford Drama

Matt Roberts demystifies the daunting prospect that is the uni theatre scene

OxFolk Review: ‘II’

Ben Ray discusses 'II', the latest album from Moore Moss Rutter

OxFolk Reviews: ‘The Fade In Time’

Ben Ray listens to 'The Fade In Time', the latest album from Sam Lee & Friends

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