Oxford's oldest student newspaper

Independent since 1920

Culture

Christian Atheism by Slavoj Žižek review

‘And what did the twentieth century want with religion, already well worn and threadbare from its journey down the ages...What did we have to replace that merciful, self-sacrificing ideal,...

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...

The Mermaid

The mermaid is dying, and no one cares.She does not belong here, here in...

Freida Toranzo Jaeger’s Prophetic Glitter

Freida Toranzo Jaeger names her paintings like items in a manifesto: Extinction is the...

Feature: Amateur Cinematics

Nick Pierce celebrates student filmmaking

Underrated

Films that didn't get the attention they deserved...this week, The Fall

Review: The Last Station

Expect to see this hitting the BBC on repeat in future, don't expect our reviewer to be watching

Review: Extraordinary Measures

It doesn't quite measure up

Online review: Micmacs

Enjoyable film with a couple of incongruous scenes

Oxford Union Ball: From Russia with Love

Last Friday's James Bond themed Union Ball was double 0 Heaven...

Oxford University Orchestra (Benjamin Wallfisch)

Our classical music reviwer was impressed at the Sheldonian Theatre on 19th February

Photo Blog: Part VI

A sideways glance at life in Oxford...

Moments snatched in a life of touch and go

James Wright follows Jan Morris' new book 'Contact!' across a whole lifetime and half the known world

Landy’s ‘Art Bin’. Trash or Treat?

Sam Pilgrim ponders whether chucking away works of art can genuinely be considered, erm, art

Review: IMPerium

Elizabeth Biggs finds the Imps far from imperious

Review: Three Sisters

Perhaps take a rain check(ov)

Review: Samson Agonistes

Atmospheric surroundings pardon the flaws in this production

Review: Heligoland

Worth waiting seven years for? Probably, says Jane-Marie Saldanha

Follow us

HomeCulture