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Adolescence: Can TV spark radical change in young men?

Adolescence is just another example of art acting as a conversation piece. The recent series has inspired much conversation after it has highlighted how harmful online misogynistic and ‘incel...
Film Tom Cockburn -

Hand over Heart

"So bite the heel that walked you home in the rain"
The Source Briony Arnott -

Oxide Radio is a breath of fresh, musical air

"This free station is worth a listen"
Music Milo Man -

Exhibition 004: Oxford artistry across all mediums

When I first walked into Exhibition 004, my gaze was immediately met with Magda...
Art Dara Mohd -
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Freakshow Television

Eve Beere argues that our fascination with voyeuristic TV about others' bodies stems from our sense of superiority to them

Review: American Sniper

Clint Eastwood's latest film is little more than an exercise in wartime propaganda, and it grates

Forget Magna Carta: discover the oldest English law codes

Elliot Langley explores the recently digitised manuscript of the Textus Roffensis

Loading the Canon: Darkness at Noon

Ben Cooke calls for the addition of Arthur Koestler's chilling novel to the literary establishment

“Who are you?” Grayson Perry wants to find out

Alex Peplow reviews Perry’s latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

Preview: The Effect

Mark Barclay previews an upcoming production of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect

Review: The Woman in Black

Fergus Morgan relishes the theatrical subtelty of this classic ghost story

Review: Bj̦rk РVulnicura

Sara Semic is drawn in by the Scandinavian singer-songwriter's avant-garde breakup album

Review: Viet Cong – Viet Cong

Freddy Rendall is pleasantly surprised by the self-titled debut album from the Canadian band

Wot Do u Call It: talking grime with the Originators

Sara Semic chats grime with P Money, Logan Sama and Darq E Freaker at Deep Cover's 'Originators Tour'

Review: Mark Ronson – Uptown Special

Lauren Rofe sings the praises of Ronson's genre-spanning new album

Review: Richard Parker

Emily Holman reviews Poor Players Productions' dark and hilarious new show

Review: What We Did On Our Holiday

Inspired by the BBC's Outnumbered, What We Did On Our Holiday manages to keep to just the right side of soppy, writes Anthony Maskell

Voices from the Past: J. R. R. Tolkien

Hear the 'Lord of the Rings' author speak the lines from his famous poem 'One Ring to Rule Them All'

Walking the Old Ways with Robert MacFarlane

Max Long discusses landscape, people and place with Robert MacFarlane, author of The Old Ways

Review: Whiplash

Jennie Han is impressed with the unrelenting, staccato rhythm of Whiplash

Review: Enemy

Anthony Maskell thinks that Enemy is a film of Orwellian paranoia and bleak isolation

Preview: Richard Parker

Christian Amos gets an inside look at this exciting new play

Review: Into the Woods

Aimee Kwan is spellbound by Into the Woods’ big-screen adaptation

Review: Testament of Youth

Naomi Morris Omori appreciates Testament of Youth’s searing poignancy
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