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Wednesday 15th October 2025
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Spike Lee’s lackluster remake: Highest 2 Lowest
There is no reason why a remake should remain inferior to its source material; even less so when it’s a ‘reinterpretation’ by an auteur as opposed to a cynical...
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Matthew Mair
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One book, 500 years of art: The History of Art in One Sentence
★★★★☆ Former Wadhamite Verity Babbs has created a practical guide to the history of art...
Art
Maxim Vorobev
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The Librarians (2025) at the Bodleian: reviewed
Kim A. Snyder’s The Librarians (2025) draws the audience into a pernicious web of...
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Abigail Lakeland
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Be brave, Oxford: Let’s put creativity back in the creative arts
Welcome back, Oxford. While you were away preparing for the next academic year, or...
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Mair Andrews
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Review: Patrick Wolf, O2 Academy
Natasha Frost describes Patrick Wolf's captivating recent performance at Oxford's O2 Academy on 31st October
Review: Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu
Simon Torracinta is left nonplussed by Lou Reed and Metallica's utterly bizarre collaboration
Review: Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto
Kiley Bense examines Coldplay's latest offering,
Mylo Xyloto
, produced by Brian Eno
Letting go: The Antlers start anew
Tom May discusses life as a full band and following up a career-defining record with the Brooklyn trio
Adventures with Tintin
Robin McGhee talks to Tintinologist Michael Farr about the magic of Hergé's creation and Spielberg's latest film
Not-so-horrible histories
Ella Sands recommends five history books you might actually enjoy
Cult Books: The Other Hand
Cult Books continues with Fay Lomas' review of a future cult classic
Scenes at the sexhibition
Richard O’Brien visits
Sexual Nature
at the Natural History Museum
Re-living Stalingrad’s horrors
Master of militaria Antony Beevor tells Robin McGhee the secrets of writing the Second World War
Review: Mammals
Katy Ebner-Landy gets hot under the collar for some red-blooded theatre
Hong Kong
Clare Richards brings a view from the eastern metropolis
Review: Melancholia
James Aber reviews Melancholia
Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Joseph Newall reviews We Need to Talk About Kevin
Pictures speak louder than words
Jacob Williamson vents his frustration with subtitled films
Paying a debt to Greek tragedy
Finola Austin talks to the people bringing Aeschylus’ tragedy
Clytemnestra
back to Oxford in its native language
Preview: Mammals
Dan Frampton finds Mammals to be polished and professional. Mammals is on in the Burton Taylor in 4th Week.
Preview: Dead Funny
Dead Funny is on at the Simpkins Lee Theatre in 4th Week
Director’s Blog – Noughts and Crosses Week Four
Phosile talks rehearsals and ticket sales in the run-up to her Oxford production of Noughts and Crosses
Review: Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
Tom May discusses
Impossible Spaces
, the sophomore record from Canadian singer-songwriter Sandro Perri
Review: Tom Waits – Bad As Me
Simon Torracinta looks at the latest release from longtime (and absolutely singular) artist Tom Waits
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