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The Blue Trail: review

★★★★☆ The Blue Trail (O Último Azul), this year’s winner of the Berlin International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, is probably unlike most things you’ve seen before. Set in a...

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Review: Sketches from a Curious Mind

In 1962, Edward Anthony wrote: “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a...

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Night School: Oxford’s after-hours curriculum

The first time I saw Nahom and Ethan, it wasn’t on a night out...

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‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ If there is one word to describe Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur, it is...

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In the quasi-apocalyptic gloom of these days, we desperately seek ways to pass the time, to numb our loneliness, to move on. The German...

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Friday Favourite: A Month in the Country

Sometimes you reread a book because it is beautiful; sometimes you do it because a mysterious benefactor on your flight gave you a concerning...

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Comfort Films: What We Do in the Shadows

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Titian behind closed doors: the ethics of an erotic gaze.

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Friday Favourite: The Waves

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Music History: Django Reinhardt

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Oxford love can hurt like this

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Once in a while you want to remain in your seat after the closing credits appear - you find yourself unable to simply get...

Richard II, coronavirus and creativity – in conversation with Dorothy McDowell

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Can museums be decolonised? The restitution question

The first step of reckoning with our colonial past is recognising its remaining presence. Every aspect of modern life is informed by the spoils...

Better to burn out or fade away? The crafting of musical legacy

Annabelle Grigg questions our valuing of self-destructive behaviour in the music industry.

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The Blue Trail: review

Review: Sketches from a Curious Mind

Night School: Oxford’s after-hours curriculum

‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

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