Tuesday 16th June 2026

Culture

The ‘Obsession’ Obsession

'Obsession' is a taste of what the next generation of filmmakers looks like.
Culture Willow Jopp -

Slow down, you crazy child: What Oxford student theatre can learn from garden plays

Student theatre strives to be as professional as possible, but the annual garden play offers something unique: permission to have fun.
Culture Mair Andrews -

Rap as poetry: ‘The Odyssey’ and the breakdown of the medium

When interviewed on his decision to cast Travis Scott as a bard figure in...
Music Niamh Hoyland and Val Michael -

Hag, Nag, Harpy, Hen: Olivia Plender’s ‘Little Fennel’s Complaint’

It is the examination of archaic methods and attitudes surrounding women’s bodies, and the idea of the ‘nagging’ woman, which runs through Olivia Plender’s exhibition.
Art Amy Lawson -
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Drake’s ghostwriter: does it really matter?

Doubt over the authorship of Drake's lyrics are a small price to pay for more material from the artist, writes Tom Barrie

Review: Tame Impala – Currents

Catherine Kelly dives into Tame Impala's Currents.

Review: Man and Superman

Comedy and philosophy at the National Theatre

Review: Ratatat – Magnifique

Tom Waterhouse reviews Ratatat's latest album, and is left wanting.

Review: Around The World in 80 Days

Harrison Edmonds is charmed by the OUDS national tour production

The Art of the 140 Character Breakdown

Sam Joyce went down the rabbit hole of 'Existential Twitter,' and needs to give his therapist a call

Review: Still The Water

Naomi Kawase's latest meditative, mystical, edifying romance proves a bewitching proposition

Teenage flicks right through the night

Marc Barclay questions how exactly adolescent audiences are keeping cinemas open in the dark days of piracy and Netflix

Review: Years and Years – Communion

Sam Joyce is inebriated but not quite intoxicated on Years and Years' debut

Glastonbury 2015. The Verdict

I struck gold in the frantic game of ‘mash-the-refresh-button’ on October 5th last year. Seeing as 135,000 tickets sold out in just 25 minutes, I can’t help feeling Apollo was looking down kindly on me that day. My prize: a ticket to Glastonbury festival.

Why I’ve never been to a festival…

Reindeer burgers in the rain? Rachael Griffith knows where she'd rather be

Review: Jurassic World

Anthony Maskell finds Jurassic World an adrenaline-pumping thrill ride, but it doesn't quite live up to the original

Game of Thrones cares more about boners than storytelling

Sam Joyce would rather Game of Thrones dial back on the exploitative nudity, thank you very much

Review: Force Majeure

Sam Joyce gets swept up in the terrifying rhythms of this Swedish dark family comedy

Review: Oxford Revue

This is not intentionally meta

Review: His Dark Materials, Part 2

Hannah Congdon delights in the innovating staging of this fantastical production

Review: Play and That Time

Evie Ioaniddi is impressed by this accomplished rendering of difficult material

The First Lesbian Fictions

Emily Dixon discusses the works of Radclyffe Hall

Monumental Art: Francisco Goya

Phyllis Stein discusses the Spanish Romantic Painter

Professor of Poetry: Time for a Change?

Lily McIlwain on how the current election has cast light on the state of poetry in Oxford and beyond
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