Tuesday 3rd June 2025

Culture

Telling stories about telling stories: Previewing ‘The Antipodes’

In a windowless room in an abstract part of Oriel, I sat in on a rehearsal for Annie Baker’s The Antipodes (2018), on at the Pilch this term. There...
Theatre Emma Scanlon -

A Pelican Crossing Somewhere on Green Dragon Lane

"The passage of time is a bloodthirsty hound."
The Source Briony Arnott -

Doctor Zhivago: The banned book the CIA smuggled across the Iron Curtain

“May it make its way around the world. You are hereby invited to watch...
Books Kavya Kapadia -

Sally Rooney, a Flaubert for today?

Like millions of other people in recent years, I have fallen victim to the...
Books Richard Kuehl -
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Freak: Ah…Puberty?

Rose Taylor applauds this intelligent take on sexuality

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On the winner of the Mercury Prize: Benjamin Clementine

Ellen Peirson-Hagger shares her thoughts on Clementine's victory

Buzzcocks’ Steve Diggle: punk legend and closet philosopher

Bryony Harris and the punk star talk being the last gang in town, ageing, philosophy and boredom

Tackling Brecht’s masterpiece ‘The Decision’

Imran Hashmi celebrates Brecht's seminal and controversial play

Trying to write the feminist form

Morgan Harries on why you should be immersing yourself in the works of female essayists

That series is really more-ish

Jackson Whitton explores Peep Show's enduring hilarity

Then they said: Refugee

Ben Cooke reviews and Oxford student's film about Palestine

Televisionaries: Walter Cronkite

Patrick Oisin Mulholland remembers the man who gave voice to a nation

Legends of the Screen: River Phoenix

Patrick Oisin Mulholland casts an eye back over the teen icon's tragically short career

Preview: Rendezvous

Laura Gledhill takes a look at the upcoming Rendezvous

Review: Breathing Corpses

Mark Barclay admires the ambition of this innovative production

An Orgy Won’t Keep You Warm At Night

Olivia Sung explores the secondariness of sex itself in romantic movies

Once Upon A Time In America

Olivia Sung investigates cinema's forgotten great

Legends of the Screen: James Woods

Olivia Sung opines about a character actor whose fame never found him

More than just Oscar fodder?

Michaela Brady is impressed by acclaimed biopic Suffragette

Live Review: The Fratellis at the O2 Academy

Rachael Griffith comes back to the Fratellis, eight years on

Review: One Direction – Made in the A.M.

Laura Hamilton discusses One Direction's new direction

Interview: Lucy Rose at the O2 Academy

Molly Moore talks female artists, media image, and soul-soothing music

Review: Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden of Delete

Tom Waterhouse reviews the uncomfortably good G.o.D
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