Friday 12th September 2025

Culture

Animal History: Reviewed

If an older adult has ever raised their eyebrow at your vegetarianism, then I might just have the book for you. They might be interested in knowing that even...
Books Lara Machado -

Hertford Archaeology Open Day: Medieval Oxford laid bare

You may have spent the last year wondering what has been going on amongst...
Art Antonia Rogers -

The Blue Trail: review

★★★★☆ The Blue Trail (O Último Azul), this year’s winner of the Berlin International Film...
Culture Lara Machado -

Review: Sketches from a Curious Mind

In 1962, Edward Anthony wrote: “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a...
Books Hannah Becker -
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Sharing Poetry Pie with Roger McGough

Ben Ray talks to Roger McGough about children’s poetry and the importance of the everyday in life

Review: Bob Dylan at the Royal Albert Hall

Benedict George on how the King of Folk is still current

Next-gen Darwin not evolving

Morgan Harries talks boredom with a “soul-sick” Darwin Deez

Oxford Lieder Festival: Singing Words

Frankie Perry shines a spotlight on this year’s edition of the renowned classical music celebration.

Preview: Playhouse Creatures

Oliver Williams is equally intrigued by the play and the director at the BT

Milestones: Sympathy for the Devil

This week, Samuel Dunnett worships at the altar of the Rolling Stone’s ‘Sympathy for The Devil’ and its lasting legacy for satanism in music

Between the devil and the (Johnny) Depp

Fintan Calpin on the perils of looking too deep into Polanski’s occult thriller The Ninth Gate

Interview: Jamie Phillips

James Chater chats to the up-and-coming conductor about his visit to Oxford

Review: The Prophetess

A very frank view of Student Opera

Sci-fi classic? Not by a giant leap

Patrick Oisin Mulholland reviews Ridley Scott's The Martian

Satanic Panic: Pentagrams and Pent-up Angst

Sam Joyce goes on an occult odyssey back to the 1980s to revisit a ludicrous moment in popular culture

Review: If Alice

Mark Barclay reviews his favourite show of the term this far

Hecuba as never seen before

Lucy Clark is stunned by the RSC’s radical reinvention

Review : Turn Of The Screw

Henner Petin finds himself scared by an atmospheric show

The fatal beauty of the cliché

Olivia Sung reviews Crimson Peak, Del Toro's cult classic to-be

Songs From The Screen

Tom Waterhouse on the remarkable power of cinematic music.

The Mercury Prize: "Enigmatically Diverse"

Ellen Peirson-Hagger assesses the pros and cons of the revered award

Review: City and Colour – If I Should Go Before You

Flora Henderson tells you why listening to City and Colour's latest album isn't just Killing Time.

Review: Real Lies – Real Life

Jackson Whitton lays eyes on Real Lies' Real Life

Why so serious?

The overriding trend of modern television is the decline of seriously funny US drama
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