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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Q&A with Joanna Hogg

Tom Barrie was impressed with filmmaker Joanna Hogg's eloquence in OBA's Q&A at Oriel College

Preview: Hacked Off Films presents: Sin City

Tom Barrie talks to Hacked Off Films co-founder Edd Elliott about Hacked Off's upcoming immersive screening of Robert Rodriguez's Sin City.

Review: Fury

Cody Gifford finds Brad Pitt's latest outing entertaining, if contrived and devoid of a deeper significance

Where Are They Now: The Sugarhill Gang

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to

Review: Kele Okereke — Trick

Kele is up to his old trick(s)

Review: Afternoons — Say Yes

Clare Saxby is unimpressed by this nostalgic Americana

Review: Dope Body — Lifer

Nile Collins reviews Dope Body's new album

Interview: Southern

Clare Saxby chats to rising stars Southern about their upcoming album

Oxford Lieder Festival: Ciara Hendrick and Maciek O’Shea

Joseph Fell reviews a programme of Schubert songs at Oxford's annual Lieder festival

Interview: Esarhaddon

Isaac Goodwin talks to director Lucy Wood about the new Assyrian play, on at the Simpkins Lee theatre on Wednesday 29th October

Review: Our Fathers

Lily McIlwain is moved by theatre group Babakas' thoughtful exploration of fatherhood

Review: Pride

Kristin Grogan finds solidarity without sentimentality in Pride, as miners and LGBT activists are thrown together in Thatcher's Britain.

Milestones: George Harrison after the Beatles

Joel Nelson tells us about George Harrison's post-Beatles escape

Mortality: what will survive of us is art

Clare Saxby discusses how the death of an artist has an inevitable effect on the reception of their work

Review: Fat Pig

Fergus Morgan is less than impressed by Neil Labute's attempted exploration of society's prejudice towards unusual relationships

Preview: Our Country’s Good

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull gives us a sneak preview of Timberlake Wertenbaker's modern classic, which arrives at Keble's O'Reilly Theatre in 3rd Week

Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Damien Shannon trawls through the sewage and finds Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wanting

Review: The Tate Modern Displays

Andrew McLean finds the curation of these exhibits confusing

The sweet sounds of cinema

Ollie Johnson takes a look at what makes a brilliant soundtrack

Loading the Canon: John Major: The Autobiography

Cherwell calls for new kids on the literary block
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