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Seasonal reads: On childhood hobbies, growing up, and guilt

Reconnecting with reading is something many people tend to do on a summer holiday, and statistics suggest it is one of the only times the majority of  adults read...

Between beer gardens and picnics: Climate Culture Care at the Ashmolean

When I returned to Oxford this term, just as England teased us with the sixth heat-wave of the year, I found myself at a loose end. With the deadline for two vacation essays still far in the distance, the sun lit up the sign for Soma Surovi Jannat’s Ashmolean Now exhibition, Climate Culture Care.

“What is a good life?”: The Standard of Living in review 

“What is a good life?” This axiological question, asked earnestly in the opening lines of James Graham’s The Standard of Living – playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket until December 12 – is often overlooked by the fractured and hyper-specialised discipline of economics.

Diverse voices: ‘Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah’ by Miljenko Jergović 

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into...

Fiction: “You don’t seem to know anything”

Oliver Baldwin’s monologue explores the day to day terror of making ‘a fresh start’

Willie Healey: star in the making

A true Oxford homeboy, most of Willie J Healey’s music videos comprise, as someone at Zappi’s once told me, of him “pissing around on...

A world in one sentence

Priya Khaira-Hanks rediscovers the startling impact of opening lines in children’s fiction

Rewind: The English Bible

Amy Booth examines the seminal 1535 release of the English bible

A fresher’s guide to Oxford Drama

Matt Roberts demystifies the daunting prospect that is the uni theatre scene

OxFolk Review: ‘II’

Ben Ray discusses 'II', the latest album from Moore Moss Rutter

OxFolk Reviews: ‘The Fade In Time’

Ben Ray listens to 'The Fade In Time', the latest album from Sam Lee & Friends

OxFolk Review: ‘Abyss’

Ben Ray reviews 'Abyss', the debut album from Talisk

OxFolk Review: ‘2’

Ben Ray looks at '2', the latest album by The Gloaming

OxFolk Reviews: ‘The Escape’

Ben Ray is captivated by UFQ's latest album 'The Escape'

OxFolk Review: ‘Wing of Evening’

Ben Ray reviews 'Wing of Evening', the debut album from The Dovetail Trio

The two faces of short film: potential to inspire, potential to bore

Visiting the Athens International Film Festival, Ellie Siora ponders on the power of the short film.

OxFolk Review: ‘The Fade In Time’

Listening to Sam Lee & Friend’s latest album, ‘The Fade In Time’, is like sitting in on a storytelling session by one of folk...

OxFolk Review: ‘Already Home’

Ben Ray discusses 'Already Home', the latest release by The Rheingans Sisters

Discussing superheroes and family: a conversation with Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards, a softly spoken, quiet English teacher from Monmouthshire, South Wales, is an unexpected hero. Alongside teaching English full time in a secondary...

OxFolk Review: ‘Releasing the Leaves’

Ben Ray listens to 'Releasing the Leaves', the second album from the duo Ninebarrow

OxFolk Review: ‘Light up the Dark’

Ben Ray reviews 'Light up the Dark', the latest release from 'The Outside Track'

OxFolk Reviews: ‘This Is How We Fly’

Ben Ray reviews the latest album from Irish group 'This Is How We Fly'

OxFolk Reviews: ‘When The Good Times Come Again’

Ben Ray listens to 'When The Good Times Come Again', the new album from Megson

OxFolk Reviews: ‘Ignite’

Ben Ray looks at 'Ignite', the debut album of duo Will Pound & Eddy Jay

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