Wednesday 27th August 2025

Culture

‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’

★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful run in New York City by Emilee Lord and Karen...

Architectural and religious fusions in Andalusia and Oxford

Oxford is a city deeply entwined with religion. With the first of its colleges...

‘HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL’ at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only...

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine,...

Oxford Literary Festival: Ian McEwan and Craig Raine

Choose your literary pairings carefully, warns Izzy Boggild-Jones, to avoid in-jokes, tension or pointless questions

Oxford Literary Festival: Philip Pullman

The supreme storyteller delights a youthful audience.

Review: Shutter Island

An Island of Hell makes for cinematic heaven, says Jacob Williamson. Scorsese is on top form.

Oxford Literary Festival: Simon Singh

You weren't a wonderful audience!

Oxford Literary Festival: Ben Goldacre

'Bad science' makes for an insightful and gripping speech, says Nicky Henderson

Oxford Literary Festival: Will Hutton

Hutton's rallying cry to the left was powerfully argued, but perhaps wasted on the literary festival audience, says Izzy Boggild-Jones

Oxford Literary Festival: Andrew Rawnsley

The political journalist talks about the book that's making all the headlines, 'The End of the Party'

Oxford Literary Festival: Patti Smith

The Godmother of Punk gives probably the coolest talk of the festival, says Izzy Boggild Jones

Moore-ishly good

Katrina Kwan is impressed by the Tate Britain's exhibition on Henry Moore.

Oxford Literary Festival: Robert Winston

Nicky Henderson reviews 'Reinventing the wheel', a talk by the public's boffin of choice.

15 years since: The Bends

Beau Woodbury looks at the impact of Radiohead's breakthrough album

Online review: Alice in Wonderland

Great cast, great characters...a shame about the plot

Online review: The Blind Side

More like the bland side of cinema, says Sophie Adelman

Feature: Beyond Bourne

Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass discuss their latest film, Green Zone

Online review: Green Zone

Much more than Bourne in Baghdad

Online review: The Princess and the Frog

Luke Partridge gets nostalgic over hand-drawn animation

A guide to the good, the bad and the Nazi

Fay Lomas meets Hitler's South American fan club in a provocative new translation of Roberto Bolaño

More than just elephant dung

Emily Hawes meets monkey apostles, philandering golfers and an icon of police racism in a new Ofili retrospective

Profile: Student Bands

Ro-to-the-land/The Great Gartini and PRDCTV

Preview: Stoning Mary

Louisa-Claire Dunnigan on a terrifying 'what if' world

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