Sunday 27th July 2025

Culture

Jacob Collier is on scintillating form at Love Supreme

Despite being a seven-time Grammy Award winner, it was only at the 2025 Love Supreme Festival in Glynde that Jacob Collier had his first major festival headline show. Wearing his...

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent...

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

Five Minutes with Harry Househam

We chat to Harry Househam, producer of Jericho Comedy and Stand-up History, about comedy in Oxford and his brand new show.

The Greatest Showman falls on its face

This longtime passion project for Hugh Jackman is far more ugly and cynical than it first appears

A bombastic celebration of Europe, sexual freedom, and gelato

Phoenix’s unabashedly optimistic latest album is hard to dislike

Philosophical economists and privatised oceans

Barney Pite reviews Varoufakis’ Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

Restoring the silenced voices in Wide Sargasso Sea

The prequel is politically necessary to the original, writes Musty Kamal

Reimagining the Ordinary

  This week, Amber Sidney- Woollett explores the work environment by restructuring dark space, whilst Georgia Heneage uses expressive brush strokes and texture to add...

Kabakov Tate Review- ‘an exercise in alternative perspectives’

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's 'Not Everyone Will Be Taken into the Future' illustrates the horrors of the Soviet Union through a series of juxtaposing perceptions

‘The worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen’

'Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow' offers an unconventional take on the 'Chosen One' genre

My album of the year: Leonard Cohen’s valediction

The Canadian's swansong ranks among his greatest albums

2017: The year of Jack Antonoff

Few producers expose the emotions of female artists like the man who has come to define pop

Review: Fall Out

Tim Shipman reveals the chaos and bitterness of post-referendum politics

Modigliani Tate review – ‘a delight to walk through’

Tate Modern's Modigliani show is tame, but beautiful

Toxic Masculinity and the Mythopoetical Movement

Books like Michael Meade's Men and Waters of Life are just as important as Feminist classics in the fight towards equality

Review: ‘Women & Power: A Manifesto’ by Mary Beard

Beard’s new book shows that new trolls are using the same old tricks to silence women

‘League of Gentlemen’ review – meaningful, powerful and incredibly funny

This revival of the BBC cult classic still packs a punch

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time review – ‘the show regenerates, and not a moment too soon’

Peter Capaldi's final turn as the Doctor is over, but was that Christmas special the swansong he deserved?

Transforming light into flesh

Netflix's new series of The Crown entrances with nuanced links between love and photography

Why ‘The Polar Express’ is a creepy Christmas classic

Despite its peculiarities 'The Polar Express' might be the most magical Christmas film of all

2017: A feminist turning point?

A glance at the powerful women who have dominated this year's pop culture.

Five playlists for all your vac moods

Tunes to help you survive the different stages of the Winter vacation

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