Saturday 9th May 2026

Culture

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.

Something wicked this way comes: ‘Macbeth’ previewed

Arriving at Somerville College in its full summer pomp, Stanley Toyne and Cameron Spruce,...

G for Georgian? LGBTQ+ representation in historical fiction

It is undeniable that LGBTQ+ representation in the media has become more positive in recent years.

‘Technologies of capture’: Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’ Reviewed

CW: Disordered eating. As an Oxford student, I often think it would be nice to...

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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