Thursday, May 29, 2025

Culture

Gregory Crewdson: How to remain relevant in the world of fine art photography

For anyone embarking on their photography journey now, the world of image creation can seem very daunting. The market is oversaturated with photographers, all creating broadly similar and anonymous...

Film photography: How I went from believer to skeptic

I’m far from the first person to point out the recent revival of analogue...

The afterlife of stories: The art and ambiguity of literary retellings

Love, betrayal, justice, jealousy: these are timeless themes, woven into the human experience for...

What books do professors of different subjects read?

In discussion of ‘the great man theory’, Professor Dominic Scott discussed his recent reading...

Preview: Rent

Matt Roberts is wowed by the scale and passion of this production

Mozart’s Figaro and soft-boiled eggs

Sophie Jordan attends the Viennese New Year concert

Review: Shinedown – Threat to Survival

Ahead of their UK Carnival of Madness tour, Sophie Jordan finds Shinedown's latest album disappointing

Raw, daring, sultry: ‘Twisted R&B’

Bryony Harris heralds the re-issue of Kelela’s 2013 “Twisted R&B” Cut 4 Me

The kids are more than alright

Morgan Harries asks what the focus for young overachievers means for us

Lamenting fashion’s familiar face

Sarah Lynch misses the craftsmanship of fashion in the age of mass-production

Culture Corner: The English country house

Ben Ray looks at the English country house in literature, and asks why we’re all so obsessed with it

Rewind: Radiohead’s ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’

Bex Watson rewinds to the release of Radiohead’s ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)'

Huey Morgan: it’s all for the fans

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to the Fun Lovin' Criminal

Jobs for the boys? (Pt. II)

Olivia Sung considers the gender politics of being affected by cinema in today's popular film criticism

Creed: what’s in a name?

Laurence Warner is pleasantly surprised by the Rocky spin-off Creed

Jobs for the boys? (Pt. 1)

Olivia Sung considers the gender politics of being affected by cinema in today's popular film criticism

An escape into lostness

Surya Bowyer is impressed by awards contender 'Room'

Oxford, the cabaret of plants- and us

Ben Ray talks to Richard Mabey about nature, our relation to it, and why Oxford is the ‘City of Greening Spires’

I Saw A Man: adventures in literature

Ben Ray talks to poet, playwright and author Owen Sheers about his varied literary career, from rugby to CERN

Review: The Revenant

Leonardo DiCaprio goes on a bear hunt and isn't scared

My first time: Star Wars

Miriam Nemmaoui laments on her recent conversion to Star Wars fandom

Style, duty and nostalgia

Daniel Minister anticipates great things from this new German drama

Spotlight: Child Actors

Richard Birch on child actors and child cruelty

Cuppers in Retrospect

Richard Birch and Matt Roberts cut their editorial teeth on cuppers

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