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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...

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Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by...

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‘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.

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‘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.

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Review: Miles Ahead – this is no hagiography

Miles Ahead successfully connects the deeply flawed private man with his public persona, the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century, writes Altair Brandon-Salmon

Rewind: Pravda

Alex Oscroft reflects on the significance of the 1912 publication of Pravda

Stop to record the moment

Ellie Duncan considers the reasons why it is such a human act to record our lives

The Exhibitionists

Mother Teresa is set to be canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church in September this year, as announced by Pope Francis...

Sculpture To Die For

On a gloomy and macabre rainy day over the vacation, I found myself being led down into the basement studio and workspace of Polly...

A Beginner’s Guide to… The Mechanisms

The Mechanisms are utterly unique. Each of their albums feature sci-fi reimaginings of classic folklore, from Grimm’s fairy tales to Arthurian myth, perfectly capturing...

Ana and the Other: a split of the self

In his latest piece, David J. Hills imagines the presence of two versions of oneself

Preview: Orphans

Oscar Haines is moved by this bold production

Review: The Good Delusion

Antonio Gottardello finds this moral play fun but disappointingly shallow

“The music of our generation”

“I think the proudest moment of my music career was when my first royalties cheque came,” says Ozzy. “It was the same time that these bailiffs were knocking on my mum’s door..."

Review: We Are Scientists – Helter Seltzer

We Are Scientists know how to write a chorus. However, what makes Helter Seltzer, their fifth studio LP, quite so exciting is that their pop sensibilities have now been coupled with a synthy sheen.

Review – Animal Collective at the O2 Ritz

Song after song from the latest album was interspersed with judicious spatterings from the back catalogue – and when they actually brought these tracks out (such as the more Pop-like ‘Daily Routine’ from Merriweather Post Pavilion), the mood finally picked up; with people going from a semicatatonic sway to actual dancing.

Culture

Does ‘Euphoria’ no longer speak to our generation?

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

‘People are so hungry to create together’: Lisa Ko on going analogue, crafting, and writing the future

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