Monday 20th October 2025

Culture

“NOR GLOM OF NIT?”: ‘Going Postal’ reviewed

“NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY.” It is this (somewhat incomplete) motto of the Post Office setting that captures in...

On Gravel and Quads: Woolf’s Oxbridge in ‘A Room of One’s Own’

Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own is probably the most important...

Dear Reader,

It has been so long since last I felt  your fingertips tracing my pages, cascading shivers...

Cillian Murphy does it again

Since his generation-defining performance in Oppenheimer (2023) two years ago, Cillian Murphy has shown...

Review: More Funny

A couple of technical glitches didn't stop this show from being roundly hilarious

Lou Reed’s Final Gig

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull remembers the rockstar's final performance

Palma Violets competition

Enter now to win tickets to see Palma Violets at the O2!

Introduction To… Peruvian Folk

Olivia Arigho Stiles switches the focus from stanky Western bass to ethereal Andean harmonies

Art: does authenticity matter?

Luke Barratt wonders whether authenticity matters in culture

My Week: Susannah Moody

Susannah Moody discusses her recent cultural favourites

Letter from Rosice

Lazlo writes to us from his year abroad in a Czech small town near Brno

Review: Lady Gaga- ARTPOP

Gaga's latest offering pushes things to the extreme- and not in a good way

Interview: Marvellous Medicine

Luke Barratt gets a quick dose of Oxford’s most exciting live act at Isis’s Cellar night

Review: Autobiography by Morrissey

Please, Please, Please, Let... him stop writing

Review: Actors’ Anonymous by James Franco

Will Pimlott on James Franco's 'trite and embarrassing' new novel

Interview: Albert Alla

Adam Whiley speaks to Albert Alla about his Oxford-set debut novel

Interview: Jim Crace

Emma Hewitt talks politics, journalism and Booker nominations with Jim Crace

More Funny

Claire Watt has a laff with the jokers behind last term's 'Some Funny'

Cuppers 2013

Highlights form OUDS' annual introduction to thespdom

Preview: Shells

From the writer of Bluebeard and Lead Feathers comes a new play, set in a post-apocalyptic Britain

Review: The Hypochondriac

Witty, farcical and mad: this week's play at the Keble O'Reilly was a sheer delight

Introduction to: Grime Instrumentals

George King introduces the sub-low enfant terrible of the British underground

Protest in Art

Delia Lockey discusses how protests are portrayed in culture

My Week: Jen Brennan

Jen Brennan is at University College, reading PPE. She plays percussion for the Oxford University Ceilidh Band.

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