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Stubborn, devout, doomed: ‘The Anti-gone’ reviewed
When The Anti-gone begins, the only thing onstage is a lectern – stark in the harsh white light and terribly lonely – before Ismene (Kitty Brown) walks uncertainly down the aisle and stares, torn and lost, into the audience.
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Something wicked this way comes: ‘Macbeth’ previewed
Arriving at Somerville College in its full summer pomp, Stanley Toyne and Cameron Spruce,...
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Arun Lewis
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G for Georgian? LGBTQ+ representation in historical fiction
It is undeniable that LGBTQ+ representation in the media has become more positive in recent years.
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Elizabeth Gammaidoni
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‘Technologies of capture’: Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’ Reviewed
CW: Disordered eating. As an Oxford student, I often think it would be nice to...
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Review: Kick Ass
Offensive? Perhaps. Inappropriate? Maybe. Entertaining? Definitely.
Overrated
Jane-Marie Saldanha on why Jerry Maguire isn't worth an Oscar nomination.
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
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