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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:...
Experimental Theatre Club
Words Words Words
Preview: Twelfth Night
An intriguing reinterpretation of a Shakespeare classic
Preview: Yesterday
Mark Barclay sees potential greatness for this piece of new writing
In Defence Of: Spring Breakers
Tom Barrie defends Selena Gomez and her murderous streak
Cinema: dead as a dodo?
Sam Joyce on why cinema is in a self-made terminal decline
Review: Mad Max
Toby Scadding enjoys vehicular carnage in this franchise revamp
Top 5 Songs to piss off a finalist
Rachael Griffith presents you with some truly inflammatory songs
Review: Gang Albanii – Królowie życia
Kieran Vaghela delves into the Polish Top 40
The last of the Beat poets
Catherine Kelly reviews Gary Snyder's latest collection
Review: A$AP Rocky – AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
Tom Barrie isn't surprised by the high quality of A$AP Rocky's latest album
Gogol Bordello: the gypsy-punk band
Eliana Rosenfelder offers up something a little different
Monumental Art: The Chess Game
Anna Zanetti discusses Sofonisba Anguissola’s groundbreaking work
‘Pretty Girls’ and Pop’s Postmodern Moment
Sam Joyce explains how Britney’s ‘Pretty Girls’ is the end of pop postmodernism
Oxford’s part in the rise of the Grrrl Zine
Sam Joyce speaks to the organisers of next week's GRRL zine fair at Freud's about the future of the format
