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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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Season Zine – Championing Women in the football-fashion conversation.

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The symbiosis of high and pop culture

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I’m watching ‘YOU’

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(Non)Traditional Casting

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Review: Emma.

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Comfort Reading in the Time of Covid-19

David Nicholls If rom-coms are the most comforting type of movie, then David Nicholls writes the most comforting type of novel. He is best known...

Music: In Isolation but not Isolated

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“Clue” as a Chamber Piece for Our Time

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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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