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Diverse voices: ‘Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah’ by Miljenko Jergović 

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into believers and infidels, the crescent moon and the cross, the good Allah made us all...
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Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...
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Good grief! Why do we feel for the death of fictional people?

Whether it’s a mild sniffle or full-blown tears, I always end up feeling a bit ridiculous about the whole ordeal when it’s over. I mean, it’s not real, is it? Why do I waste my grief on things that haven’t happened, that will never happen?
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The rise of the pop girlie: Marketing mediocrity or feminism in action?  

“GIRLS INVENTED PUNK ROCK, NOT ENGLAND”: so reads the iconic green T-shirt of Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon. The slogan stands in defiance of an unfortunate truth in the music industry: femininity and credibility often exist in contention with one another.
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Review: A.C. Newman – Shut Down The Streets

Marc Pacitti enjoys the Canadian songsmith's latest offering

140 Characters in search of a Tweeter

Nick Hilton gives you the low-down on tweeting about Film & TV, and how to make the most of microblogging

Review: The Hour

Lizzie Greene is enamoured with this hour of TV (and Ben Whishaw)

Review: Argo

Georgina Pollard is impressed by Ben Affleck's third stint behind the camera

Review: Freedom of the City

An intimate and brilliantly unpacked piece of theatre

Review: The Get-Out

Yara Rodrigues Fowler applauds the best piece of student writing she has seen as Oxford yet

Review: Titus Andronicus

Darya Shchepanovska delights in the reworking of this bloody tragedy

Cuppers Review: Hamlet the Musical

Anya Metzer finds Christ Church's starling reworking of this Shakespearian tragedy bizarrely effective

Cuppers Review: Wonderland

Quintin Caldwell is suitably impressed by David McShane's rendition of a Lewis Carrol classic

Cuppers Review: Real Inspector Hound

Evelyn Snow found herself tickled from the start from Stoppard's metatheatrical comedy

Cuppers Review: The Actor’s Nightmare

Luke Rollason is impressed by this thoroughly entertaining comedy

Cuppers Review: Google Knows Where You Live

Thea Slotover finds St John's attempt an amusing take on the Googleplex

Cuppers Review: 4.48 Psychosis

Josephone Mitchell found herself unconvinced by this adaptation of Sarah Kane's intense play

Cuppers Review: A Structured Panic

Chiara Bleckenwegner recommends not taking Linacre's down-to-earth comedy too seriously

Cuppers Review: DMV Tyrant

Chiara Bleckenwegner enjoyed St Catz's entry about two players and one game

Cuppers Review: Three Guys, One Cuppers

Max Long found this fetish filled Magdalen attempt wittily realised

Cuppers Review: Making A Scene

Kathryn Bennett enjoyed this sneak peak at a drama rehearsal in the bog

Future Perfect: Book Review

Josh Cowls reviews Future Perfect by Steven Johnson, a book that looks at 'networked thinking' and its impact on progress

Preview: Oxford University Sinfonietta

Katy Wright picks out her must-see end of term event.

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.
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