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One f**king thing after another: ‘The History Boys’, revisited

Grab your motorcycle helmet. Sharpen up on the subjunctive. And cue the synthetic pulses of ‘Blue Monday’. The History Boys is back. Alan Bennett’s 2004 play followed a cast of...

What are you looking at? A reflection on the Ashmolean’s Aphrodite exhibition 

The woman crouches, nude. A gauzy blue curtain hangs where she hides her chest;...

The midterms and the YA novel: Impossibly happy endings

Given its intense media coverage and everything that seems to be on the line, I feel as though I have been anxiously awaiting the results of the 2026 US midterm elections for weeks, months – maybe years.

How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be...

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.

Illyria Film Fund opens in Oxford

Nick Hilton speaks to the founders of a new film fund aimed at aspiring film-makers amongst Oxford students

Review: Downton Abbey – Series 3

Lizzie Greene is still enjoying the nation's most loved and least plausible period drama

Interview: Peter Bradshaw

Hattie Soper speaks to Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw about his career and the future of cinema

Review: Looper

Georgina Pollard is impressed by this new take of the time travel movie

Is there a ‘way to be gay’?

Adam Whiley is frustrated with a book that he believes undermines the advances of the LGBT movement.

Preview: A View from the Bridge

Heather Young watches a believable reality unfold before her eyes

Lied-ing Light

Katy Wright talks to Sholto Kynoch, artistic director of the Oxford Lieder Festival.

All Freshers to the Stage

Cherwell Stage offers a guide to all you need to get started, whether aspiring impresario, techie or prima dona

¡Vamos España!

Sophie Baggott and her camera spend a week in the Spanish sunshine

Zoom in on…paparazzi photographers

In the first of our new interview series, Jaimie Harris talks to Sophie Baggott and Amy Rollason about life as a pap

The X-facts

Huw Fullerton lifts the lid on TV's reigning talent show: he's endured the live auditions so you don't have to

Woman-To-Be

Angelika Benz hasn't herself quite figured out yet what it means to be a woman. Carefully portraying girls and young women she meets - including her own reflection in the mirror - she attempts to get closer to the core of their identity and finds that much of what she sees also lives in herself.

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