Tuesday 3rd March 2026

Culture

Confronting the future of art: ‘Responding to AI’ at Christ Church

‘Responding to AI’ an exhibition curated by Aniq Shamshi and Alice King, confronted the question of how artists perceive artificial intelligence directly.
Art Emma Heagney -

Lighthouse Productions on ‘Things I Know To Be True’

Fresh from the success of their debut production, Lighthouse Productions are set to deliver their second show: Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to Be True (2016).
Culture Abigail Lakeland -

A masterclass in devising: ‘Noether’

This original play tells the story of the mathematician Emmy Noether and her struggles with the misogyny of her male peers against the backdrop of the rising Nazi state.
Culture Jessica Phillips -

In defence of academic writing

In my year out before my postgraduate degree, I made the momentous decision to start writing fiction. I’d recently got back into reading novels, and thought becoming a novelist would be an ideal way to commit my name to posterity.
Books Ben O'Brien -
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Review: Fool’s Gold

Charlie Martin reviews Fool's Gold.

Back to basics: Super 8

Nick Westfield delves into the Super 8 archives.

Neighbourhood Watch: Chris Chan

Thomas Barrett meets Chris Chan, organ scholar supreme.

Great Novels: Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon’s manic schizophrenic novel, originally titled ‘Mindless Pleasures’, is a quasi-sequel to his previous work V, which had appeared in 1963 to...

Review: Mort

Thank heavens Mort is showing in 8th Week of Hilary: the term of sickness, stress and freak exams for an unlucky few. Well –...

Panel Discussion: The Role of the Art School in the 21st Century, Modern Art Oxford

Richard Wentworth, Master of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, initially seemed slightly taken aback to discover that he was the sole...

Concert review: Tomas Gould & John Reid play Schubert, Szymanowski and Schumann

Holywell Music Room, 2nd March 2008Wandering past a posterboard for the Holywell Music Room coffee concerts it is easy to feel a twinge of...

Classical review: Oxford Chamber Orchestra play Copland, Barber and Haydn

Sheldonian Theatre, 8.30pm, February 29th 2008The Oxford Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Jonathan Williams, gave a programme connecting the 20th century back to...

Roth by numbers – a review of Philip Roth’s latest novel, ‘Exit Ghost’

Nathan Zuckerman, a writer living out his winter years in rural isolation, believes he finally has a handle on unpredictability. Prostate cancer has left...

Ready For The Floor?

James Louis Gallagher reviews Hot Chip live at the Carling Academy Hot Chip’s reputation as one of the best live bands on the electro scene...

Quills

After the Moser’s lavish costume drama Dangerous Liaisons in third week, the powdered wigs and buckled shoes return for this gripping production of Quills at the OFS

Review: Dangerous Liaisons

by Frankie Parham *** Beneath all the powdered wigs and tightly strung corsets, 18th century France was bursting with selfish, sex-crazed,...

Wanted: one Alistair Campbell

The REAL election '08I picked up this election leaflet (pictured) outside Frankfurt University the other day. It's from the far-left Party for Social Equality...

Single review: ‘Beautiful Burnout’, Underworld

Underworld is the electronic mastermind duo of Rick Smith and Karl Hyde. 2007 saw them return to the arena of exciting and experimental electronica...

I want to break free

Collections are over, Oxford’s wetter than the North Sea and the transition from Hollyoaks addict to workaholic is not going smoothly. Time to get...

An organ is a gift, and not a right

Changing the law on organ donation to one of presumed consent will mean that we are all organ donors unless we have formally registered...

Job losses with no consultation: education policy the Labour way

The government has decided that it will no longer fund people seeking to do a higher education course at an equivalent level to a...

Interview: Jimmy Carr

Freddie Parton talks to Jimmy Carr about what's in humour, his love of the controversial, and his upcoming UK tour Channel4’s round-faced comedian Jimmy Carr...

Pete’s week

Working terrifies me, so I intend to avoid it forever. I live in constant fear of succumbing; of choking my life away in a...

Restaurant Review: The Big Bang, 124 Walton Street

It is not immediately obvious that this Walton Street gem is a concept restaurant. Yet with all produce sourced from within a twenty mile...
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