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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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Patrick Oisin Mulholland is blown away by Beckett

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An intriguing reinterpretation of a Shakespeare classic

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Mark Barclay sees potential greatness for this piece of new writing

In Defence Of: Spring Breakers

Tom Barrie defends Selena Gomez and her murderous streak

Cinema: dead as a dodo?

Sam Joyce on why cinema is in a self-made terminal decline

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Toby Scadding enjoys vehicular carnage in this franchise revamp

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Rachael Griffith presents you with some truly inflammatory songs

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Kieran Vaghela delves into the Polish Top 40

The last of the Beat poets

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Tom Barrie isn't surprised by the high quality of A$AP Rocky's latest album

Gogol Bordello: the gypsy-punk band

Eliana Rosenfelder offers up something a little different

Monumental Art: The Chess Game

Anna Zanetti discusses Sofonisba Anguissola’s groundbreaking work

‘Pretty Girls’ and Pop’s Postmodern Moment

Sam Joyce explains how Britney’s ‘Pretty Girls’ is the end of pop postmodernism

Oxford’s part in the rise of the Grrrl Zine

Sam Joyce speaks to the organisers of next week's GRRL zine fair at Freud's about the future of the format

Milestones: Jusepe de Ribera’s ‘The Bearded Woman’

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses the deep emotional beauty and sympathy conveyed in Jusepe de Ribera’s 'The Bearded Woman'

Joan of Arc — “Tell the boys their time is through”

Bethan Roberts examines the visual and literary representation of the fifteenth century tomboy

‘He that hath no beard is less than a man’

Trina Wilson plucks at the beard of past and present and discusses defying gendered casting in Shakespeare
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