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:...
A view from the Cheap Seat
2076. Two Brits at the Gates of Heaven.
Review: Hippolytus
Ben Thorne discusses the Oriel Greek Play: incest, mortality and everything in between
The Devil’s in the Details
Olivia Sung examines the gothic impulses of Marvel's recent TV venture
A View from the cheap seats
List of potential plays for MT15, notes
Magic Flute 2.0
Henner Petin indulges in a new production of an all-time classic
Michaelmas Highlights
All the latest gossip on what's hot on the Oxford stage this term
Review: The Ordinary Boys – The Ordinary Boys
Rachael Griffith finds something out of the ordinary with the group's latest album.
Live Review: The Japanese House
Sam Joyce shares his thoughts on the group's first ever show.
New frontiers: cashing in your microchips
Sam Joyce wonders how technological advances are changing the ways we consume media
How Newsnight lost its teeth
Faye Kneyham finds Evan Davis to be a poor Paxo-substitute
Milestones: silicon implants and modern beauty
This week, Sam Joyce discusses Esmeralda the Dog’s pioneering silicon implants and the implications for modern conceptions of beauty
Mean girls and scream queens
Toby Scadding is spellbound by Fox's irreverent slasher send-up
The Smyths fall hard on this humdrum town
The greatest Smiths tribute band of them all returns once more to Oxford. Bryony Harris interviews Graham (aka Morrissey) about their 'Meat is Murder' tour
Top Four Hidden 80s Gems
Andrew Dickinson tells you what you've been missing.
