Wednesday 22nd April 2026

Culture

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by the Merseyside-based violinist Samuel Oliver-Sherry, a current third year music student at St Anne’s College....

‘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.

‘People are so hungry to create together’: Lisa Ko on going analogue, crafting, and writing the future

It’s 11:02am in New York when Lisa Ko appears on the video call. In Oxford, the sun is almost down.

How 2025’s biggest films made their mark through music

The recent Oscar nominations have allowed us to reflect on how fundamental musical scores are to film, and the highlights of last year’s film soundtracks.

Milestones: Punk

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses the life and death of the punk scene and its rebellion against popular rock and roll in the late seventies.

The rise of the dead: taxidermy gets a new lease of life

Morgan Harries considers a renaissance in the beautifully grotesque world of stuffed animals

Buried treasure: why do museums hide gems?

Helen Thomas discusses the Victoria and Albert Museum and hidden artefacts in its collections

Review: The Real Thing

A triumph for garden postmodernity

Review: String of Pearls

Henner Petin deciphers a net of 27 characters

PC Music: why the hype?

John Shulman explains why this music label is important

Top 5 songs to mourn/celebrate the election result

Rachael Griffith takes you through some party songs, whatever your reaction to the result

Review: Hop Along – Painted Shut

Rachael Griffith is enthralled by this innovative album

Review: Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home

Matt Myers is impressed by this new introspective album

The most contentious exhibition in Britain?

Emmanuelle Soffe visits Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art

Review: Passion

Patrick Oisin Mulholland is impressed by this slick production

Review: Snoop Dog – Bush

Sam Joyce is delighted to see Snoop and Pharrell reunited

Review: I Nominate

A promising premise missing direction

Review: Killing Hitler

Paul Ostwald is impressed but exhausted by Oxford's German play

Preview: Medea

Patrick Oisin Mulholland is transported by this ancient tragedy

Don’t Mind The Gap

Henner Petin encounters poetry and its translational trap

Review: Beachcombing

Mark Barclay is entranced by this reflective studio play

In Defence Of: Jennifer’s Body

Sam Joyce defends Megan Fox's quasi-feminist horror-comedy

Review: A Little Chaos

Emmanuelle Soffe finds A Little Chaos a predictable period drama

Where cannes we go from here?

Sam Joyce explains why the currently ongoing Cannes Film Festival is suffering from an identity crisis

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