Monday 16th June 2025

Culture

What the book you’re reading says about you

In an institution as prestigious as Oxford, every book you pull out in public is transformed into a portable personality test, a hard launch of your favourite academic, and...
Books Aayah Aslam -

Why romance books should be your post-exam read

With finals in full swing, and prelims just around the corner, Oxford’s libraries are...
Books Charlotte Renahan -

Review: Blood Wedding – ‘A lunar eclipse on the stage’

A trembling bride. A distrustful mother. Two murderous rivals vying for a single, wavering...
Theatre Sanaya Narula -

Review – The Wykehamist: ‘A Saltburn for the other place’

In the underbelly of Hong Kong, a Goldsmith-Sachs Vice President invites a woman back...
Books Maya Heuer-Evans -
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Movies and Shakers – Episode III

This week, Huw and Hattie enter the murky world of sex and espionage as they talk all things Bond. WARNING: Contains major Skyfall spoilers.

Review: Skyfall

Georgina Pollard investigates whether women can enjoy this famously masculine franchise

Behind the Scenes: Mountain Giants

Julia Hartley discusses the nature of being a director

Behind the Scenes: The Stream

David Todd talks about combining art forms on the Oxford drama scene

Behind the Scenes: A Country Doctor

Henry Little talks about the task of adapting short stories for the stage

Interview: Jo Brand

Lizzie Greene chats to Jo Brand about her career in comedy and the third series of Getting On

Scenes of Kathmandu

Russell Newton conjures up a Nepalese spectrum of light and colour

Review: The Overtones – Higher

Thomas Fowler is deeply unimpressed by this boy-band's vacuous offering.

Live Review: Marina and the Diamonds

Frothy pop at its finest

Blessed with the Force

Olivia Arigho Stiles considers the Oxford music scene with hometown band Fixers

Ordered Chaos: Review of Moulène at Modern Art Oxford

W.J. Humphries looks at the latest exhibition of Jean-Luc Moulène at Modern Art Oxford

Zoom in on… new talent

Sophie Baggott talks to up-and-coming videographer and photographer Henry Bird about breaking into the business

Interview: The King’s Singers

Flying High: Katy Wright talks to the King's Singers after their performance at the Union.

Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild

Joseph Newell is underwhelmed by this Sundance darling

Review: Miss Julie

Anna-Maria Ssemuyaba is disappointed by a production that fails to generate any emotion

Review: A Tender Thing

Hyunjip Kim is disappointed by this adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story

Review: Isobel

Ani Kodzhabasheva is haunted by this literary game turned deadly serious

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Review: On the Road

Carmella Crinnion is impressed by this stylish adaptation of Kerouac's classic

Series Review: The Great British Bake-Off

Anthony Collins on GBBO's innuendo-riven appeal
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