Monday 4th August 2025

Culture

How radio changed the literary landscape: The Bodleian’s ‘Listen In’

“Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News. At 20 minutes before 8, central time, Professor...
Books Nancy Gittus -

Highway Elegies: Living Bruce Springsteen’s ballads

A tantalising balance of folk, country, soul, and rock ’n’ roll, Bruce Springsteen is...
Culture Cici Zhang -

Jacob Collier is on scintillating form at Love Supreme

Despite being a seven-time Grammy Award winner, it was only at the 2025 Love...
Music Susan Yu -

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent...
The Source Cici Zhang -
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Review: Donkeys’ Years

In one of the last bastions of all-male academia, Jonathan Chapman takes in a delightful garden production

Suicide on the rail tracks

Thoughts from inside a train. When somebody took their own life under the wheels of an earlier train, things started to look a bit different.

Preview: The Deep Blue Sea

Timothy Bano previews what looks to be an excellent production of a play full of emotional understatement

Preview: Proof

Angus Hawkins recommends this stunningly good production

Angels and Consolations

Katy Wright provides a glimpse into what it is like to stage an opera

Storming the Bastille

Matthew Robinson and Olivia Arigho-Stiles consider the up-and-coming indie quartet

A Bluffer’s Guide to: Post-Dubstep

Matt Jones explores the latest scene to develop out of the UK Bass culture

A Bluffer’s Guide to: Terence Rattigan

Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate illuminates this establishment classic

Preview: Anything Goes

Maria Fox is hugely charmed by this Pembroke Production

Preview: After the Dance

Angus Hawkins thinks this rarely performed play is well worth seeing

Review: A Doll’s House

Ed Bell feels Brasenose's good production of a classic play is somewhat out of place

Review: The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull

Ceri Fowler finds The Cribs to be at their best, poor title excluded

Review: Rufus Wainwright – Out of the Game

Marc Pacitti finds Rufus Wainwright's best chance for both critical acclaim and popular support in Out of the Game

Review: JD Mcpherson – Signs and Signifiers

Sarah Poulten enjoys the 1950s charm of JD Mcpherson's latest release

Review: Damon Albarn – Dr Dee

Sam Parsons finds Damon Albarn's first true solo effort to be decidedly underwhelming

Our Man in Havana

Nick Hilton feasts on the directorial brains of Alejandro Brugués

TV Hit of the Week: Grandma’s House

Grandma’s House makes a triumphant return, as dazzlingly funny as ever

Forgiving the Unforgiven

Henry Tonks explores the historic legacy and unpredictable future of the Western movie genre

Review: The Raid

A new sort of action movie comes bursting our of Indonesia

All Tomorrow’s Parties

Richard Nias' photos of the ATP curated by Jeff Mangum.
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