Saturday 5th July 2025

Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

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...

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

Review: Colin and Katya – Innovative and Marvelous

FIVE STARS Jack Clover is the talk of the town and upon the evidence of his latest play, Colin and Katya, rightly so. Staged among the...

‘Tough times’ in doom pop

Joshua Mascord gets the latest from Lonely the Brave’s Ross Smithwick

A discussion with Buzz Aldrin

Ben Ray is over the moon about Blackwell's event with the legendary astronaut

Poetry: Tpyomaniac [sic]

Fronk Davey's sonnet examines the perils of typos.

Playlists and procrastination: soundtracking exam season

Sophie Jordan explores the link between revision, creativity and music

‘What’s wrong with being hopeful?’

Charlie Willis explores friendship alongside the flow of the seasons in prose

Hollywood: Beyond the Pale?

David Lawton feels it’s time to reject Hollywood’s regime of systematic oppression once and for all

Cinema’s Resurrection?

Ellie Siora on how innovative screenings must challenge ‘passive’ binge-watch culture, after attending an all-night Wes Anderson marathon

Review: Mustang – confronts the sexualisation of innocence

Alice Townson finds Mustang daringly political and playfully provocative

Review: Love and Friendship – both modernised and faithful

Stillman’s adaptation successfully captures Austin and puts others to shame, writes Zach Leather

I, Daniel Blake: a working class triumph

Jem Bartholomew hopes Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or win can revolutionise our national welfare debate

Live review: Father John Misty

Ellen Peirson-Hagger witnesses a show packed to the brim with energy, sexuality and romance

Oxford’s burning destruction

Daniel Curtis considers the boiling point of Oxford’s stress levels as we near the end of Trinity

Rewind: Bhutan’s tobacco ban

Simran Uppal reflects on 2010 and Bhutan’s total ban on tobacco

“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”

Harriet Dagnall explains how derivative and good music are not mutually exclusive

Review: Of Mice and Men

Ellie Gomes is taken back in time by this nostalgic adaptation of Steinbeck’s classic

Rewind: Orwell’s 1984

Daniel Curtis reflects on the 1949 publication of George Orwell’s 1984

A Beginner’s Guide to… White Denim

Thomas Athey reflects on White Denim's output

Thrift shopping: still cool in 2016?

William Shaw wonders if Macklemore and Ryan Lewis can continue to top the charts

Is this the future, the present or the past of The Strokes?

Graham Mazeine contextualises and gives his first impressions of The Strokes’ new EP

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