Culture
Books you can’t sink your teeth into: A brief look into unsolvable manuscripts
If there’s one thing that most people appreciate, it’s a good mystery with a clever solution. It is no accident that Agatha Christie is listed as the Guinness World...
Review: Will Heaven Fall on Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective
Will Heaven Fall on Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective, which aired in cinemas this...
Has the romantic comedy lost its charm?
The romantic comedy genre is often criticised for its overreliance on tropes. The romcom...
Palimpsest
This is a secular city, built on holy bones.
We’re on the edge of another...
2024 was for the girls: The rapid success of female artists
The last nine months of pop can perhaps be summed up in one word:...
Oxford Lieder Festival: Singing Words
Frankie Perry shines a spotlight on this year’s edition of the renowned classical music celebration.
Preview: Playhouse Creatures
Oliver Williams is equally intrigued by the play and the director at the BT
Milestones: Sympathy for the Devil
This week, Samuel Dunnett worships at the altar
of the Rolling Stone’s ‘Sympathy for The Devil’ and its lasting legacy for satanism in music
Between the devil and the (Johnny) Depp
Fintan Calpin on the perils of looking too deep into Polanski’s occult thriller The Ninth Gate
Interview: Jamie Phillips
James Chater chats to the up-and-coming conductor about his visit to Oxford
Review: The Prophetess
A very frank view of Student Opera
Sci-fi classic? Not by a giant leap
Patrick Oisin Mulholland reviews Ridley Scott's The Martian
Satanic Panic: Pentagrams and Pent-up Angst
Sam Joyce goes on an occult odyssey back to the 1980s to revisit a ludicrous moment in popular culture
Review: If Alice
Mark Barclay reviews his favourite show of the term this far
Hecuba as never seen before
Lucy Clark is stunned by the RSC’s radical reinvention
Review : Turn Of The Screw
Henner Petin finds himself scared by an atmospheric show
The fatal beauty of the cliché
Olivia Sung reviews Crimson Peak, Del Toro's cult classic to-be
Songs From The Screen
Tom Waterhouse on the remarkable power of cinematic music.
The Mercury Prize: "Enigmatically Diverse"
Ellen Peirson-Hagger assesses the pros and cons of the revered award
