Tuesday 5th August 2025

Culture

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much so that when I told my peers I’d be studying abroad, they had me promise...

Reading Oxford books in Oxford

For those who have not even set foot in Oxford, the city still lives...

Netflix’s city of dreaming Americans: My Oxford Year, reviewed

If not taken too seriously, Netflix’s new movie My Oxford Year is a surprisingly...

Lacking Latin: Ceremonial mistakes in My Oxford Year

My Oxford Year, a new Netflix rom-com, has received considerable attention. Yet as a...

Taking a Leith out of her Book

Patrick Scott finds a lot to admire when talking to Prue Leith about her career as a businesswoman and author.

Review: ‘This Christmas Night’: Worcester College Choir

Katy Wright finds Worcester College Choir to more than live up to Oxford's tough choral scene.

Preview: Titus Andronicus

Finola Austin sees an active, unusual and promising production of the gory classic

Review: Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy

Ellie Halls has misgivings about Deborah Levy's much lauded, but unsettling novel

Review: Crystal Castles – (III)

A dizzying assault on the senses from the Canadian experimental duo.

Riding An Awesome Wave

Olivia Arigho Stiles talks drugs and debauchery with 2012 Mercury Prize winners Alt-J

Bonfire Bonanza

Sophie Baggott and Freddie Bowerman remember remember the fifth of November

Behind the Scenes: Volpone XXX

Volpone goes for the gutter in a unique analysis of marketing strategies

Preview: Jane Eyre

Evy Cavalla expects great things from Polly Teale's reworking of a classic

Zoom in on…OU Photo

Oxford University Photography Society president Carl Turpie talks to Sophie Baggott about honing your photography skills in Oxford

Review: Beats

Heather Young urges you to see this experimental piece of new writing

Review: A Little Night Music

Evy Cavalla finds this play strong in performance, but lacking in its content

Review: A Country Doctor

Francesca Cioni recommends this unique and vivid experience

Review: Life Sentence

Despite its many flaws, Life Sentence offers an audacious and dynamic production

A decade under the influence

Patrick Scott talks to The Cribs about being ten years old.

Review: Rust and Bone

Georgina Pollard is put through the wringer by this powerful French drama

Preview: O Human Child

Max Dalton urges readers to be lured into this Bacchanal ritual.

Preview: Life Sentence

Alexander Woolley looks forward to this original comedy about a hypochondriac

Preview: A Little Night Music

Anna Ssemuyaba looks forward to what promises to be an enchanting night of music

Preview: Oxford University Laptop Orchestra

An OxLork member tells us what to expect from this most novel of ensembles.

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