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 –...

Live Review: Mac Demarco at the Camden Roundhouse

Fintan Calpin recounts an evening of swaying, smoking and musical intoxication

Writers on film

Ben Cooke discusses why so many films about writers seem silly

The Frank is for Turning…sort of.

Zoe Hare reviews Frank Turner's latest album: 'Positive songs for Negative People'

Into the ring: boxing and social mobility in cinema

Olivia Sung asks if boxing is cinema's greatest arena for exploring social mobility

The Proms: ‘Wouldn’t you simply die without Mahler?’

An impressed Sean Dunn sees Ludwig's finale for a fiver

Video and Theatre

Mark Barclay explores the possibility of a symbiosis of video and theatre - or an invasion of one by the other

Tramlines 2015: On the unbeat‘n’tracks

From headliners to sideliners - a review of Sheffield's 7th Urban Festival run

Drake’s ghostwriter: does it really matter?

Doubt over the authorship of Drake's lyrics are a small price to pay for more material from the artist, writes Tom Barrie

Review: Tame Impala – Currents

Catherine Kelly dives into Tame Impala's Currents.

Review: Man and Superman

Comedy and philosophy at the National Theatre

Review: Ratatat – Magnifique

Tom Waterhouse reviews Ratatat's latest album, and is left wanting.

Review: Around The World in 80 Days

Harrison Edmonds is charmed by the OUDS national tour production

The Art of the 140 Character Breakdown

Sam Joyce went down the rabbit hole of 'Existential Twitter,' and needs to give his therapist a call

Review: Still The Water

Naomi Kawase's latest meditative, mystical, edifying romance proves a bewitching proposition

Teenage flicks right through the night

Marc Barclay questions how exactly adolescent audiences are keeping cinemas open in the dark days of piracy and Netflix

Review: Years and Years – Communion

Sam Joyce is inebriated but not quite intoxicated on Years and Years' debut

Glastonbury 2015. The Verdict

I struck gold in the frantic game of ‘mash-the-refresh-button’ on October 5th last year. Seeing as 135,000 tickets sold out in just 25 minutes, I can’t help feeling Apollo was looking down kindly on me that day. My prize: a ticket to Glastonbury festival.

Why I’ve never been to a festival…

Reindeer burgers in the rain? Rachael Griffith knows where she'd rather be

Review: Jurassic World

Anthony Maskell finds Jurassic World an adrenaline-pumping thrill ride, but it doesn't quite live up to the original

Game of Thrones cares more about boners than storytelling

Sam Joyce would rather Game of Thrones dial back on the exploitative nudity, thank you very much

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