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....

Culture Evelyn Lambert -

‘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.

Culture Hattie Simpson -

‘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.

Books Abigail Lakeland -

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.

Culture Ruaridh McEwen -

Preview: Constellations – a rehearsed reading

Fergus Morgan previews this reading of Nick Payne's idiosyncratic love story

Super Fatigue! The homogenisation of superhero movies

Joseph O'Neil wonders how much longer studios can milk the cash cow that the superhero genre has become

Broadchurch: against a sea of troubles

Tom Barrie reflects on the second wave of drama to hit Broadchurch

Review – Kingsman: The Secret Service

Mark Barclay struggles to decipher Kingsman: The Secret Service

Where are they now: Sam Bailey

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to

Review: Bob Dylan – Shadows in the Night

Will Ferris is not wholly impressed by ageing Dylan's take on Frank Sinatra classics

Gerard’s Way of getting things done

Sam Joyce talks comics and new solo LPs with My Chemical Romance's frontman

Review: The Charlatans – Modern Nature

Aidan Clark finds the latest offering from the revered indie-rock band a hopeful channel after the bereavement of drummer Jon Brookes

Review: Nina Kraviz – DJ-Kicks

Freddy Rendall reviews the latest mix from the Siberian DJ making waves with her hypnotic techno

Milestones: Apocalypse Now

Ollie Johnson looks at nature's role in the making of Apocalypse Now

"Oh Charles, what a lot you have to learn!"

Fergus Morgan talks to the acting director of the Oxford Botanic Garden

Review: Blake-inspired LiveFriday at the Ashmolean

Mark Barclay reflects upon his interactive night at the museum

Loading the Canon: W. G. Sebald

Jacob Verter calls for the addition of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn to the literary establishment

Alice Oswald: the modern epic poet to rival Homer

Rose Sykes reflects on the influences and work of the next speaker in Keble’s Meet the Poet series

Review: Plenty

Emma Irving reviews David Hare's play about post-war disenchantment

Preview: Noises Off

Bethan Roberts previews an upcoming metatheatrical comedy

Review: Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

Mark Loughridge reviews the latest incarnation of a classic

Review: The Boss of It All

Anna Zanetti reviews this Lars von Trier adaptation

Preview: Macbeth

Hannah Dewhirst checks out an upcoming production at Regent's Park

Review: Paddington

Anthony Maskell finds the Peruvian bear's first outing on the silver screen to be a huggable affair

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