Sunday 17th August 2025

Culture

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine, Melbourne, rocks up to London in 1980, writes 'wear makeup everyday' on his New Year's...

St Anne’s goes All-Steinway: A purposeful and bold commitment to music

In a move that lives up to its motto of ‘Consulto et Audacter’ (purposefully...

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much...

Reading Oxford books in Oxford

For those who have not even set foot in Oxford, the city still lives...

InstaUgly: behind the beauty

Rachel Evans discusses the darker side of Instagram, and where it leads us

The reprobate we love to loathe

Alexander Walker looks at Hunter S Thompson and the dirty honesty of gonzo journalism

Review: Sarah Blasko – Eternal Return

Sophie Jordan is far from thrilled by Sarah Blasko's love-centred new album

Review: Tame Impala at Ally Pally

Alex Oscroft witnesses a trippy, yet not wholly ambitious, set from the psych-rockers

“It has to do with air molecules and shit”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks gig etiquette with Aidan Knight

Small festivals attracting big names

Daniel Curtis considers this summer's festival offerings

"Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right?"

Shami Chakrabarti, once dubbed ‘the most dangerous woman in Britain’, addresses the Oxford Guild about her book, On Liberty

Words here don’t mean what we think they mean

Sam Luker Brown reviews Mercury Fur at the Pilch

Review: Giselle

Sarah Lynch enjoys an oddly costumed evening with the Russian State Ballet

California is Loaded

A Photo Series by Emanuele Biasiol

Common People announces Big Top line-up

The Oxford-based May Bank Holiday weekend festival adds a whole host of acts to its bill

Preview: Mercury Fur

Matt Roberts can't wait for an evening of 'hell on earth'

Spotlight: From Stage to Screen

On the screen success of stage actors

Spotlight: Eliot as playwright

On T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral

Shakespeare al fresco

David Marchington braves the cold for this Coriolanus adaptation

Spotlight: Gender

Matt Roberts struggles with being put in a dress.

Review: Cashiered

Aurelia Vandamme is drawn into gender identity and the civil war.

Review: Phantom of the Opera

Ruari Clark is stunned by the O'Reilly's sell out show.

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus

Naomi Gee talks to Nabeel Qureshi about faith

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 5

Lindsay Tocik writes about family, the fight between light and dark and flying

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