Sunday 15th June 2025

Culture

Review – The Wykehamist: ‘A Saltburn for the other place’

In the underbelly of Hong Kong, a Goldsmith-Sachs Vice President invites a woman back to his penthouse apartment for sex. Once there, he tortures her hideously for days, filming...

Form, function, and art in the cultural weight of architecture

With roughly 55% of the world’s population living in cities, the urban world –...

The cantatas of Bach with New Chamber Opera

Recently, students from the University of Oxford have blessed the city with several performances...

Review: Crocodile Tears – ‘Techno-futuristic, but why?’

There is a lot to like about Natascha Norton’s Crocodile Tears. Female lead Elektra...

"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

Bestival 2016 set to be a winner

Huge names announced for September's festival of 'mind-expanding music'

Preview: Orphans

The Experimental Theatre Club promises a tense exploration of societal divide

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 8

This week to end our series Cathy Go writes about mornings, a cruel time all of us must eventually face — even in the vac

Review: Horseplay

Matt Roberts has a bizarre evening with the Revue at the Pilch

Review: Sketchy History

Matt Roberts really wanted to like this new sketch show from 'Three Men in a Boot'

Review: Rape of Lucretia

Caitlin Law is struck by an eery night at St Peter's Chapel

Spotlight: Five faint at Kane’s ‘Cleansed’

Matt Roberts reflects on dramatic violence and the hype of a cause célèbre

Review: Maud

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is touched by this one man performance

Preview: Attempts On Her Life

Christian Bell previews BT Studio's latest production Attempts On Her Life

An art lover’s FIELD day

Miriam Gordis finds poetry in art at Anne Hardy’s exhibition

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 7

This week Alex Shaw writes about shaky foundations

Embracing the Wilderness

Ben Ray discusses nature with journalist Rob Cowen

Fairytales for a new age

Miriam Gordis interviews Desmond Elliott Prize winner, Ali Shaw

Review: Marriage of Kim K

Rose Taylor reflects on a remarkable new show at the O'Reilly

Rewind: William Carlos Williams

Tom Barrie reflects on the rebellious brevity of William Carlos Williams’ poetry

Culture Corner: David Mitchell & Cloud Atlas

Samantha Phey muses on Cloud Atlas’ exploration of human interconnectedness

Postcards: the last vestige of sincerity

Simran Uppal would quite like someone to pidge him a Valentine, but only if it’s physical

Looking through the window

Natasha Burton argues that postcards are more than just cultural snapshots

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