Culture
A Future in the Light of Darkness review: Imagined engines of desire
Modern Art Oxford’s exhibit Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: A future in the light of darkness counters the potential for automated vehicles and social media algorithms to consume our future reality. With...
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poet’s Department: Who tortures the poet?
The most tortured love affair on Taylor Swift’s new album is her relationship with...
Christian Atheism by Slavoj Žižek review
‘And what did the twentieth century want with religion, already well worn and threadbare...
The Oxford Fashion Gala: A stellar display of talent
The evening of Wednesday 8th May brought a show that transcended the limitations of...
Film around the world: Germany’s The Lives of Others
I’m sure that those of us who studied A-Level German back in the day...
Interview: Ellie Goulding
"I sometimes worry that I'm lacking stimulation"
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
