Culture
The art of rowing: In conversation with Emily Craig
After a formidable finish in the Lightweight Women’s double sculls at the 2024 Paris Olympics in August, Team GB’s Emily Craig and Imogen Grant secured their places as the...
On Leadership by Tony Blair, Precipice by Robert Harris, and Oxford crime – Books of the Month
On Leadership by Tony Blair; Precipice by Robert Harris; Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order review – “An excellent account”
Dr Edward Howell, whose columns in the Spectator and the Telegraph are among the...
A Revolution Betrayed by Peter Hitchens review – In Defence of Grammar Schools
Review – A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System by Peter...
Veranilda by George Gissing review – The best historical novel never written
George Gissing remains the most underrated novelist in the English language. He wrote twenty-three...
Milestones: Apocalypse Now
Ollie Johnson looks at nature's role in the making of Apocalypse Now
"Oh Charles, what a lot you have to learn!"
Fergus Morgan talks to the acting director of the Oxford Botanic Garden
Review: Blake-inspired LiveFriday at the Ashmolean
Mark Barclay reflects upon his interactive night at the museum
Loading the Canon: W. G. Sebald
Jacob Verter calls for the addition of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn to the literary establishment
Alice Oswald: the modern epic poet to rival Homer
Rose Sykes reflects on the influences and work of the next speaker in Keble’s Meet the Poet series
Review: Plenty
Emma Irving reviews David Hare's play about post-war disenchantment
Preview: Noises Off
Bethan Roberts previews an upcoming metatheatrical comedy
Review: Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
Mark Loughridge reviews the latest incarnation of a classic
Review: The Boss of It All
Anna Zanetti reviews this Lars von Trier adaptation
Preview: Macbeth
Hannah Dewhirst checks out an upcoming production at Regent's Park
Review: Paddington
Anthony Maskell finds the Peruvian bear's first outing on the silver screen to be a huggable affair
Review: The Effect
Anna Zanetti reviews The Effect at the Keble O'Reilly
Review: Bitter Lake
Bitter Lake is a robust critique of modern geopolitics, writes Kyran Schmidt
Review: Mortdecai
Sam Joyce thinks that Mortdecai is another nail in the coffin of Johnny Depp’s career
