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In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review

CW: Gun violence. “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” is the driving question of Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. The film centres around a couple whose otherwise perfect relationship is...

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s theatre: Defining the ill-defined

It has been 93 years since the first performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good...

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Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’

Originality could be dead in pop music. The genre is so self-referential that it...

Music Val Michael -

Why you should spring clean your bookshelf this Trinity

In the Northern Hemisphere, astronomers mark the beginning of spring on the date of...

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Fairytales can show us the horrors of Hitler’s Germany

The stories of Günter Grass bring Germany’s repressed trauma into the light

A gendered rewatching of The Silence of the Lambs

25 years on, Clarice Sterling's defiance of the patriarchy is as relevant as ever

The late Mr Salinger deserves his enduring reputation

The Catcher in the Rye encapsulates central tenets of our modern world, writes Barney Pite

A beastly tale of life and death

Josephine Southon reflects on the animals and beasts in Grimms' fairy tales

Those Who Follow review – “an appreciation of some too often ignored parts of this city we all call home”

Matthew Roberts explores the different faiths of modern Oxford, as presented in the exhibition Those Who Follow

Confessions of a Drama Queen: The Final Showdown

Our drama queen's term ends, not with a bang but a restraining order.

Passion over party in Pasternak’s Russia

Maria Minchenko marks the Russian Revolution centenary by casting her mind back to one of cinema's classics

Science fiction that shaped the Revolution

Daniel Antonio Villar looks at the impact of Red Star, by Alexander Bognadov

Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage: His Darkest One Yet

Raffaella Sero reviews Philip Pullman's latest novel

Hollywood’s glamourising of Beauty and the Beast buries its troubling implications

21st century reimaginings of classic fairytales do not address the dark politics that underpin them. Susannah Goldsbrough explores.

Preview: ‘Lovesong’ – “one of the best pieces of student theatre this year”

John Livesey is blown away by a preview of the sold-out 'Lovesong'

Review: ‘Yellow’ – “sensitive and complex”

Zad El Bacha is highly impressed with 'Yellow', an adaptation of Charlotte Perkin Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper', at the Pilch

Five Minutes With… Hugh Tappin

In our final interview of term, we chat to Hugh Tappin, of Nitrous Cow Productions

Lucy Rose enraptures and comforts her audience in Oxford

Ollie Braddy reflects on an atmospheric evening of intricate vocals set against the backdrop of a 19th century church

No soggy bottoms, as Channel Four puts the icing on the cake

The move may have halved its viewing figures, but hasn't diminished any of its charm

The insincerity of the female nude

Women should not be afraid to reclaim their naked bodies, writes Priya Vempali

Memorable sax solos and individual flair at the Varsity jazz-off

If this show was about demonstrating the very best they can do, then Oxford delivered

Mountains review – ‘uncomfortable and immersive’

Michael O'Connor is impressed by this unorthodox performance.

Rock’s best storyteller

"Darnielle's new novel confirms the status that Rolling Stone granted him; Rock's best storyteller", writes Barney Pite.

House of Fear and the reinvention of fairytale

Libby Cherry writes about the feminist undertones to Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet

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Culture

In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s theatre: Defining the ill-defined

Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’

Why you should spring clean your bookshelf this Trinity

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