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How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be out of reach tomorrow. You might believe book banning to be a thing of the...
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The burden of the face: Why are so many singers wearing masks?

We can all name at least one musician who has performed behind a balaclava, helmet, or hood. Whether to preserve anonymity, cultivate mystery, or construct an entirely new artistic identity, masking the face is common among those under the limelight.
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New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the...
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“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...
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Album review: California – blink-182

Daniel Curtis analyses blink-182's hit comeback album.

Books and Lit: What to read this summer

Missing those reading lists? Katie Mennis has five great reads to keep you entertained this summer

Film and TV: A summer preview

Ellie Siora looks to offset the post-term blues through film and TV

The revolution will be live-streamed

Daniel Curtis explores the narrative merits of video games

Touring the Ruskin Show’s newly-defined spaces

Anietie Ekanem is taken by the interactive experience of the Ruskin Show

Review: Colin and Katya – Innovative and Marvelous

FIVE STARS Jack Clover is the talk of the town and upon the evidence of his latest play, Colin and Katya, rightly so. Staged among the...

‘Tough times’ in doom pop

Joshua Mascord gets the latest from Lonely the Brave’s Ross Smithwick

A discussion with Buzz Aldrin

Ben Ray is over the moon about Blackwell's event with the legendary astronaut

Poetry: Tpyomaniac [sic]

Fronk Davey's sonnet examines the perils of typos.

Playlists and procrastination: soundtracking exam season

Sophie Jordan explores the link between revision, creativity and music

‘What’s wrong with being hopeful?’

Charlie Willis explores friendship alongside the flow of the seasons in prose

Hollywood: Beyond the Pale?

David Lawton feels it’s time to reject Hollywood’s regime of systematic oppression once and for all

Cinema’s Resurrection?

Ellie Siora on how innovative screenings must challenge ‘passive’ binge-watch culture, after attending an all-night Wes Anderson marathon

Review: Mustang – confronts the sexualisation of innocence

Alice Townson finds Mustang daringly political and playfully provocative

Review: Love and Friendship – both modernised and faithful

Stillman’s adaptation successfully captures Austin and puts others to shame, writes Zach Leather

I, Daniel Blake: a working class triumph

Jem Bartholomew hopes Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or win can revolutionise our national welfare debate

Live review: Father John Misty

Ellen Peirson-Hagger witnesses a show packed to the brim with energy, sexuality and romance

Oxford’s burning destruction

Daniel Curtis considers the boiling point of Oxford’s stress levels as we near the end of Trinity

Rewind: Bhutan’s tobacco ban

Simran Uppal reflects on 2010 and Bhutan’s total ban on tobacco

“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”

Harriet Dagnall explains how derivative and good music are not mutually exclusive
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