Monday 1st September 2025

Culture

The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

★★★⯨✰ Returning for their 62nd annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe, the Oxford Revue rolled into town with their new sketch comedy hour For Revue Dollars More, accompanied nightly by...

Academia is hell, literally: R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’

R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis touches on a range of near-universal academic experiences: impostor syndrome; frantic,...

Oxford Commas at the Fringe – Interview

The Oxford Commas are a contemporary gender-inclusive a capella group who had their Fringe...

‘Aca-demic Weapons’ at the Fringe: Oxford Commas Review

★★★★☆ A capella groups from Oxford have long been favourites at the Edinburgh Fringe, with...

Claim your right to rewrite the new writing

Ballgowns, Strongbow and that Regina Spektor track: Carla Neuss gives her exclusive guide to writing a new drama.

Review: Despicable Me

Despite moments of hilarity and emotion, this is a fairly average animation.

The Myth of French Cinema

Luke Partridge on the assumed brilliance of French cinema

Review:The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Rimika Solloway on glittering gold and less than glittering shouting

Review: The New Electric Ballroom

Anna Milne relieves her adolescent sexual encounters with three old almost-maids

Review: Shobaleader One d’Demonstrator, Squarepusher

Olaf One d-Pezzledon listens to this 'acoustic-digital dichotomy'

More than Murder in the Cathedral

Chloe Noble fails to find the words for a play that wasn’t a play but a mystical experience

Not one to panda to the masses

Gold Panda tells Charlie McCann why he isn’t a fan of his music, and why he doesn’t care who is

OUDS Drama: a battle of the sexes

The Royal Hunt of the Sun and New Electric Ballroom directors talk to Carla Neuss about Inca warriors, sexual encounter and the ‘woman’s question’ in Oxford drama

C’est tres amusant, no?

Josephine Sarchet goes against popular belief and explains how French films can be funny

Review: A Town called Panic

Dale Viva-Lee begins a Cherwell Film French special with one of the best and strangest films of the year

The French Connection

Evie Deavall bridges the Channel and discusses cinematic camaraderie with actor Jean-Claude Dreyfus

When dreaming spires no longer inspire

Annabel James reviews two new exhibitions which explore the meaning we give to the materials around us

Nothing rhymes with ‘polio’

Our de facto America correspondent Dave McLeod meets his nemesis in legendary author Philip Roth’s new novel, Nemesis.

Review: ‘I Don’t Want To See You Like This’

Matt Walsh runs over the new track from the Joy Formidable

Interview: Adam Buxton

Benjamin Kirby's extended interview with comedian, actor & radio presenter Adam Buxton

Interview: S1l3nc3

Oliver Moody talks to the acclaimed 'mind abuse' artist - in absolute silence

Review: Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up

Moneeb Nasir sizes up Oceansize's latest album, then heads to their gig for a reappraisal

Ionesco’s Play Is A Lesson For Us All

The futility of existence and pervasive erocticism: this play takes William Hooper back to school

Rekindling a passion for books

Jamie Randall takes on the traditionalists and finds himself E-lated by the prospect of electronic reading

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