Wednesday 27th August 2025

Culture

‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’

★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful run in New York City by Emilee Lord and Karen...
Culture Nicole Palka -

Architectural and religious fusions in Andalusia and Oxford

Oxford is a city deeply entwined with religion. With the first of its colleges...
Art Sofia O'Casey -

‘HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL’ at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only...
Culture Rebecca Harper -

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine,...
Art Ava Doherty -
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Live Review: Wolf Alice – O2 Academy

A short gig with little variety, but there's still time for the new band to develop their onstage style

Loading the Canon: John Lennon

Cherwell's weekly call for new additions to the literary establishment highlights Lennon's short stories and poems

Review: Last Enchantments

Hugh McHale-Maughan discovers the modern Brideshead

Interview: Vladimir Sharov

Miriam Gordis talks to Vladimir Sharov, the man who captured the zeitgeist of a falling regime

Review: Bad Neighbours

Seth Rogan's latest attempt at comedy is caught between being unfunny and unwatchable

Preview: She Stoops To Conquer

Naomi Polonsky looks forward to this traditional garden show

Preview: Timon of Athens

Nadia Bovy looks ahead to this immersive production at Magdalen

Review: Collaborators

Fergus Morgan is impressed by this production about the politics of terror

Review: Frank

Michael Fassbender's masterful performance ultimately saves this self-indulgent and incoherent movie

The Magnificence of Miyazaki

Ollie Johnson praises the genius of the master of Japanese animation

Top 3… Theories of the Soul

Luke Barratt outlines three intriguing historical perspectives

Milestones: Deals with the Devil

Luke Barratt explores the cultural motif of selling one's soul - don't try this at home!

Identity: A question of mind, body or soul?

Emma Simpson considers what our obsession with the physical has to do with our inner lives

Preview: Surprise

Naomi Polonsky is completely absorbed by this new piece of writing

Review: Matisse the Cut-Outs

Enyuan Khong takes a tour of the Tate Modern’s new exhibition of the modernist master’s cut-outs

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

Luke Barratt considers the overwhelmingly visual nature of our cultural consumption

Top 3… Visuals

Emma Simpson examines three unusual visual perspectives

Milestones: Bill Viola

Naomi Polonsky considers the influence of visual artist Bill Viola

Where are they now: The Cheeky Girls

They’re the 00s favourite Romanian red-heads that left Louis Walsh speechless.

Review: Dolly Parton – Blue Smoke

It's the 42nd release by the country icon, but Dolly has failed to deliver.
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