Sunday 26th April 2026

Culture

Why you should spring clean your bookshelf this Trinity

In the Northern Hemisphere, astronomers mark the beginning of spring on the date of the spring equinox. This year, it falls on the 20th of March. For Oxonians, spring...

Does ‘Euphoria’ no longer speak to our generation?

Should I have been watching Euphoria’s first season as an innocent, bright-eyed 14-year-old? Probably...

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by...

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.

Reassessing Mr Kubrick

Daniel Kodsi re-evaluates one of the auteur's canonical films

Identity is as fluid as silk

Olivia Sung enjoys The Danish Girl’s materiality

Shia LaBoeuf is in a lift

But is it art?

Review: Yuck – Stranger Things

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is unimpressed by Yuck's latest album

Review: Kanye West — The Life of Pablo

Tom Barrie doesn't fall for Kanye's latest Tidal wave of ego

An evening of Illuminations in Iffley

Sophie Jordan watches Corona Strings take on Britten

The Coral: always getting proggier

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks psychedelia, books and hunger with keys-player Nick Power

The art of creating the past

Daniel Kodsi muses on escapism and the nature of literary, historical and personal truths

Rewind: Apollo 18 & 13

Ollie Johnson analogically rewinds back to Apollo 18 and 13 with style

Profile: Marina & The Diamonds

Emmanuelle Soffe talks synaesthesia and self-searching with Marina and the Diamonds.

Preview: Coriolanus

Matt Roberts loves Roman politics, and you should too

Luminaries: William Shatner

Dan Minister looks back on the career of William Shatner

We fought a war for this

Dan Minister wishes he'd never seen Dad's Army

Astounding concept, flawed execution

Matt Roberts has a lot of fun with the Imps, despite some technical hitches

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 4

Steve Wright enjoys the British weather

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 3

Ben Ray goes to Cornmarket Street

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 2

Mary Ann Clark thinks about the concept of home, looking back and the prospect of arrival

Warhol in fresh light

Surya Bowyer reviews the Ashmolean’s Andy Warhol exhibition.

Pyrotechnics, Smoke and Mirrors

Matt Roberts is exciting for a Phantom of the Opera packed full of wizardry

William Shakespeare and the year of Lear

Timothy Wade finds James Shapiro overestimates the Bard

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