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How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be out of reach tomorrow. You might believe book banning to be a thing of the...
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The burden of the face: Why are so many singers wearing masks?

We can all name at least one musician who has performed behind a balaclava, helmet, or hood. Whether to preserve anonymity, cultivate mystery, or construct an entirely new artistic identity, masking the face is common among those under the limelight.
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New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the...
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“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...
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ISIS, iconoclasm and art — for peace’s sake

Katherine Hinzman argues that attacks on cultural artefacts force us to reevaluate our notion of art

Patterns in the barkcloth

Beth Timmins takes a look at the British Museum’s latest exhibition

Sharing Poetry Pie with Roger McGough

Ben Ray talks to Roger McGough about children’s poetry and the importance of the everyday in life

Review: Bob Dylan at the Royal Albert Hall

Benedict George on how the King of Folk is still current

Next-gen Darwin not evolving

Morgan Harries talks boredom with a “soul-sick” Darwin Deez

Oxford Lieder Festival: Singing Words

Frankie Perry shines a spotlight on this year’s edition of the renowned classical music celebration.

Preview: Playhouse Creatures

Oliver Williams is equally intrigued by the play and the director at the BT

Milestones: Sympathy for the Devil

This week, Samuel Dunnett worships at the altar of the Rolling Stone’s ‘Sympathy for The Devil’ and its lasting legacy for satanism in music

Between the devil and the (Johnny) Depp

Fintan Calpin on the perils of looking too deep into Polanski’s occult thriller The Ninth Gate

Interview: Jamie Phillips

James Chater chats to the up-and-coming conductor about his visit to Oxford

Review: The Prophetess

A very frank view of Student Opera

Sci-fi classic? Not by a giant leap

Patrick Oisin Mulholland reviews Ridley Scott's The Martian

Satanic Panic: Pentagrams and Pent-up Angst

Sam Joyce goes on an occult odyssey back to the 1980s to revisit a ludicrous moment in popular culture

Review: If Alice

Mark Barclay reviews his favourite show of the term this far

Hecuba as never seen before

Lucy Clark is stunned by the RSC’s radical reinvention

Review : Turn Of The Screw

Henner Petin finds himself scared by an atmospheric show

The fatal beauty of the cliché

Olivia Sung reviews Crimson Peak, Del Toro's cult classic to-be

Songs From The Screen

Tom Waterhouse on the remarkable power of cinematic music.

The Mercury Prize: "Enigmatically Diverse"

Ellen Peirson-Hagger assesses the pros and cons of the revered award

Review: City and Colour – If I Should Go Before You

Flora Henderson tells you why listening to City and Colour's latest album isn't just Killing Time.
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