Thursday 23rd April 2026

Culture

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...

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

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

‘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.

‘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.

On the winner of the Mercury Prize: Benjamin Clementine

Ellen Peirson-Hagger shares her thoughts on Clementine's victory

Buzzcocks’ Steve Diggle: punk legend and closet philosopher

Bryony Harris and the punk star talk being the last gang in town, ageing, philosophy and boredom

Tackling Brecht’s masterpiece ‘The Decision’

Imran Hashmi celebrates Brecht's seminal and controversial play

Trying to write the feminist form

Morgan Harries on why you should be immersing yourself in the works of female essayists

That series is really more-ish

Jackson Whitton explores Peep Show's enduring hilarity

Then they said: Refugee

Ben Cooke reviews and Oxford student's film about Palestine

Televisionaries: Walter Cronkite

Patrick Oisin Mulholland remembers the man who gave voice to a nation

Legends of the Screen: River Phoenix

Patrick Oisin Mulholland casts an eye back over the teen icon's tragically short career

Preview: Rendezvous

Laura Gledhill takes a look at the upcoming Rendezvous

Review: Breathing Corpses

Mark Barclay admires the ambition of this innovative production

An Orgy Won’t Keep You Warm At Night

Olivia Sung explores the secondariness of sex itself in romantic movies

Once Upon A Time In America

Olivia Sung investigates cinema's forgotten great

Legends of the Screen: James Woods

Olivia Sung opines about a character actor whose fame never found him

More than just Oscar fodder?

Michaela Brady is impressed by acclaimed biopic Suffragette

Live Review: The Fratellis at the O2 Academy

Rachael Griffith comes back to the Fratellis, eight years on

Review: One Direction – Made in the A.M.

Laura Hamilton discusses One Direction's new direction

Interview: Lucy Rose at the O2 Academy

Molly Moore talks female artists, media image, and soul-soothing music

Review: Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden of Delete

Tom Waterhouse reviews the uncomfortably good G.o.D

Why we need to talk about your vagina

Ell Potter goes on a journey of self discovery and urges that we find new modes of yonic expression

Milestones: Rokudenashiko’s ‘Pussy Boat’

This week, Sam Joyce expresses his admiration for Rokudenashiko’s headline-making vessel

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