Saturday 6th September 2025

Culture

Night School: Oxford’s after-hours curriculum

The first time I saw Nahom and Ethan, it wasn’t on a night out – it was an early morning. I was shuffling through the half-awake crowd when my...
Culture Maya Rybin -

‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ If there is one word to describe Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur, it is...
Culture Peter Hardisty -

The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ Returning for their 62nd annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe, the Oxford Revue rolled...
Culture Leon Moorhouse -

Academia is hell, literally: R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’

R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis touches on a range of near-universal academic experiences: impostor syndrome; frantic,...
Books Charlie Stevens -
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The Quiet Volume

Vickie Morrish experiments with a very unusual piece of theatre within the library

Where are they now: Al Murray

Cherwell Stage continues its look at Oxonian thesps of the past with the famous pub landlord

Press Preview: Isobel

Angus Hawkins is pleasantly surprised by this impressive piece of new writing

Zadie Smith ‘NW’ Review

Viccy Ibbett reviews Zadie Smith's evocative novel about a north-west London council estate.

Pre-Raphaelites Victorian Avant-Garde Review

An amateur art enthusiast reviews this slightly reserved, yet still surprisingly illuminating exhibition

Review: Taken 2

Georgina Pollard doesn't hate this second slice of the Taken franchise

Review: Tame Impala – Lonerism

Natasha Frost enjoys a trippy sophomore effort.

Review: Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg

Olivia Arigho Stiles is impressed by the latest working class hero.

Review: Fresh Meat

Lizzie Greene recommends this hilariously awkward university comedy

On the set of Locked In A Garage Band

Nick Hilton remembers life on the set of independent film Locked In A Garage Band, after its world premiere in London

Review: Gap Year: A New Musical Comedy

Quintin Caldwell has his spirits lifted by this twenty-something comedy

Review: A View from the Bridge

Rachel Hutchings is impressed with this intense realisation of an Arthur Miller classic

Movies and Shakers – Episode I

Introducing a brand spanking new film podcast; this week featuring discussions on Looper, Manhattan, and films named after cities generally.

Zoom in on…photo blogging

Nasir Hamid talks to Amy Rollason about recording a living social history through his photography

Julay!

Chloe Cornish takes us to the jaw-dropping landscape of the Himalayan mountain region of Ladakh

The Good Natured

Alex Chalk goes gothic with The Good Natured.

Review: Anna Karenina

Harry Dienes examines the latest cinematic adaptation of Tolstoy's epic.

Interview: Marina and the Diamonds

Olivia Arigho Stiles quizzes Marina and the Diamonds on fame, music and feminism

Interview: Alan Davies

Alan Davies talks about the pain of living and his imminent return to stand-up comedy

‘We Bury Our Own’ Exhibition Review

Rachel Hutchings reviews Christian Thomspson's evocative photography, currently exhibited at the Pitt Rivers.
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