Tuesday 12th May 2026

Culture

Internet Babies: Students of Subculture

There’s a certain kind of artist that I keep coming back to lately: artists who seem to know exactly what I want to hear before I do. Not algorithmically,...

May Morning

Smudged mascara and the curling of coffee steam. Small yawns and the shuffling of...

Sunday

That Sunday could arrive first-class, Wrapped in tissue and stickers with minimalist logo. Sent anonymously (from...

Hail Agnes full of grace: ‘Hamnet’ and the perfect mother figure

Buckley swept this year’s award season for her performance as Agnes in Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell book of the same name.

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

Twelve classic books every fresher should have read

Our Furious Contributors provide the definitive guide to impressing phony fresher friends at the pub

Preview: Bouncers

Fergus Morgan gets a sneak preview of John Godber's energetic comedy before its 3rd Week run at the BT Studio

Interview: Babakas

Fergus Morgan meets Mike Tweddle and Juan Ayala to discuss theatre company Babakas' Our Fathers, which arrives at the North Wall on Saturday October 25th

Review: Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were

Clare Saxby finds that the appeal of Ben Howard's enticing follow up album is very different from his first

WW1 Drama: Best We Forget?

Fergus Morgan examines the plethora of First World War drama on stage

Where Are They Now: JoJo

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

Review: Johnny Marr — Playland

Has Marr finally lost his edge?

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