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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...

Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...

Celebrity Children Restored my Faith in Humanity

Sam Joyce argues that we should leave procreation to those with DNA worth passing on.

Preview: Proximity

Mark Barclay tries to hide the fact he's a terrible dancer with fancy words

Milestones: Leonardo DiCaprio’s head

This week, Fintan Calpin looks at how DiCaprio’s utilisation of his own body parts has managed to keep him ahead in the movie industry

Don’t forget your Valuables

Henner Petin remembers puberty, or lack thereof

Freak: Ah…Puberty?

Rose Taylor applauds this intelligent take on sexuality

Top songs for your sex playlist

We know you have one - here are some choice tunes to suit any mood

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

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