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What does a Ruskin artist actually learn? A graduate’s perspective

Create, critique, repeat? Polina Kim interviewed recent John Ruskin MFA graduate Laura Limbourg about the inner workings, of unknown to the public, of the school. Oxford terms are intense. Lawyers,...

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Why we’re obsessed with Greek myth retellings

In every bookshop today, from Blackwell’s to Waterstones, an unmistakable pattern emerges: Greek myth...

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Down the rabbit hole: illustrating ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has long proved an endless source of inspiration to illustrators....

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The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

While watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025) a few weeks ago,...

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Andrew McCormack can't say fairer than that, with the Queen's Garden Play

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What Makes A Classic: Magnolia

Beau Woodbury on Paul Thomas Anderson's modern masterpiece

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Helena Bennett finds that students haven’t changed much in 70 years - but the world around them has

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Andrew McCormack catches up with the first instalment of this month's rent.

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The magic motion man

Jane-Marie Saldanha speaks with Adam Elliot, independent animator extraordinaire

The college dropouts

Alex Dudok de Wit talks to Foals keyboardist and Oxford abscondee Edwin Congreave

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Will Granger thinks there's plenty to say about this something.

First Night Review: No Exit

Max Marenbon checks in, and checks out Sartre's classic at the Frewin Undercroft

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A new comedy of modern manhood hits the BT next week. Will it stick?

Online Review – Dangerous Liaisons

Ice-cold trysting at Trinity in a superb garden play

A Lovely Labour, Well Found

Andrew McCormack picnics with Shakespeare and St. John's Mummers

‘5th WEEK’ – Cherwell’s famous Photo Blog

Beat those blues with brilliant photography from around Oxford

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What does a Ruskin artist actually learn? A graduate’s perspective

Why we’re obsessed with Greek myth retellings

Down the rabbit hole: illustrating ‘Alice in Wonderland’

The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

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