Tuesday 12th May 2026

Culture

Internet Babies: Students of Subculture

There’s a certain kind of artist that I keep coming back to lately: artists who seem to know exactly what I want to hear before I do. Not algorithmically,...

May Morning

Smudged mascara and the curling of coffee steam. Small yawns and the shuffling of...

Sunday

That Sunday could arrive first-class, Wrapped in tissue and stickers with minimalist logo. Sent anonymously (from...

Hail Agnes full of grace: ‘Hamnet’ and the perfect mother figure

Buckley swept this year’s award season for her performance as Agnes in Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell book of the same name.

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

Review: The Effect

Anna Zanetti reviews The Effect at the Keble O'Reilly

Review: Bitter Lake

Bitter Lake is a robust critique of modern geopolitics, writes Kyran Schmidt

Review: Mortdecai

Sam Joyce thinks that Mortdecai is another nail in the coffin of Johnny Depp’s career

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