Culture

September 5: Journalism drama doesn’t question the facts enough

Set during the 1972 Munich Olympics, Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 tracks the ABC Sports crew’s coverage of the Israeli athlete hostage crisis in the Olympic Village: the first terror...
Film Janik Peeters -

Periodisation and the Problem of Now

Periodisation is the act of dividing literature into eras like Romanticism, Modernism, or Postmodernism...
Books Ava Doherty -

Review: Death of a Salesman – ‘The Inside of His Head’

To review Tiptoe Productions’ staging of Death of a Salesman, I must first contextualise...
Theatre Sanaya Narula -

Oxford’s summer scene: The season of open-air performances

Trinity term at Oxford University is defined by wisteria, wild swimming, and warmth. Students...
Theatre Elizabeth Bourn -
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This faithful recreation of one of Pinter’s most wired, unyielding plays explores the tones and half-tones of memory, manipulation, and sexuality

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Oxford Lieder Festival: Doric Quartet

Cherwell spends a fiery evening with Schubert at the Oxford Lieder Festival
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