Tuesday 21st October 2025

Culture

Grappling with ‘grief that’s half formed’: Your Funeral

“Meeting up with a partner so soon after a breakup is an awkward time - and she’s dying.” Your Funeral is the debut play of new company Pharaoh Productions. It...

“NOR GLOM OF NIT?”: ‘Going Postal’ reviewed

“NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR...

On Gravel and Quads: Woolf’s Oxbridge in ‘A Room of One’s Own’

Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own is probably the most important...

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It has been so long since last I felt  your fingertips tracing my pages, cascading shivers...

Oxford Revisited

An exploration of literary works based in Oxford

Profile of Writing Students # 2

Amy Blakemore, a student at Oxford, answers a few questions about her poetry

Profile of Writing Students #1

Clarissa Pabi, a student at Oxford, answers a few questions about her creative writing

Voyeurs to man’s vulnerability

W J Humphries finds Lucian Freud's exhibition an affecting experience.

The Phoenix and the Red Carpet

Nick Hilton visits Jericho's finest independent cinema in search of a better class of movie

Review: King Charles – LoveBlood

Olivia Stiles thinks she may have found the soundtrack to the summer in King Charles' LoveBlood

Review: Ren Harvieu – Through the Night

Patrick Scott finds Ren Harvieu to have come back from injury to deliver an album that feels free while maintaining its classic touches

Interview: Dry the River

Olivia Arigho Stiles talks neo folk and religion with Dry the River

Are you a creative writer?

Viccy Ibbett surveys a few of the opportunities available to creative writers in Oxford.

More Short Stories…

Two rich and powerful short stories by Anahita Hoose

Short Stories….

A trio of short stories by Calypso Blaj, Failed Novelist extraordinaire.

A Bluffer’s Guide to: George Bernard Shaw

Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate talks you through the great socialist writer

Review: Killing Hitler

Despite a patchy production, Angus Hawkins is impressed by a fascinating story

Settling the Score

Christy Edwall talks with Dario Marianelli about the art of composition

A Bluffer’s Guide to: The New Wave of Hip Hop

Matt Jones walks you through some of the biggest names in the latest resurgence of US hip hop

Album Review: Europe – Allo Darlin’

Tom Hoskins finds that Allo Darlin' balances pain with euphoria to good effect

Review: The Tempest, Magdalen

Constantine Fraser laments the rain, as a high-spirited production of The Tempest is forced inside

Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Brasenose

Rosalee Edwards feels the fourth wall slipping away in front of her in this enthralling production

Review: Court, BT Studio Theatre

Tommo Fowler is instructed to call this piece of new writing 'meta theatre; mental theatre'

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