Wednesday 5th November 2025

Culture

Fashion around Oxford – Iggy Clarke

Iggy Clarke, the president of the 2025 Oxford Fashion Gala, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now.

Look up! Statues and gargoyles in Oxford

Walking around Oxford you often feel like you’re part of the city’s tourist attraction....

Plaques and Peripheries: The Search for Oxford’s Women Writers

Every morning on my way to college, I pass through the cobblestoned, crowded St...

‘Extremely funny and emotionally intense’: ‘Your Funeral’ at the Burton Taylor Studio

Your Funeral is Pharaoh Productions’ debut play written by Nick Samuel, about the last...

What can books say that we can’t?

As people, we love to talk - to other people, to ourselves, to the mirror (don’t lie, everyone does it!) We all have opinions...

‘Hamlet’ in the Modern World: Interview with Cast and Crew

Shakespeare is making a return to Oxford's Keble O'Reilly and it’s a big one, Hamlet is back and fresher than ever! When I heard there...

Glittering Girls

Giggling, high heels caught in cobblestone as you collapseIn my arms as you’re wrecked with another fit of laughter-You shriek in delight, stumble over...

A Summer as a Volunteer at the National Portrait Gallery

The ‘Long Vac’ is called ‘long’ for a reason and I did not want to waste a second of it. When I saw...

“A Must-See”: Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean

I did not know what to expect when I arrived at the Ashmolean to preview their newest exhibition, Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion &...

“A Gripping Memoir”: ‘Stay True’ by Hua Hsu Review

Recently I picked up a book that had been on my to-read list for a while. Stay True by Hua Hsu came out last...

Can our individual habits solve the fast fashion problem?

​​It is no mystery that fast fashion is a Bad Thing. I’ve spent a lot of time in recent years thinking about fast fashion,...

“Emotionally and physically draining”: ‘A Little Life’ on West End

Ivo Van Hove’s dramatization of Hanya Yanagihara’s divisive novel A Little Life took to the West End this summer, with a brief stint at...

Manele: the controversy around Romani music in Romania

Manele is a modern form of Romani (or Roma) music in Romania. Using traditional Romani instruments and sounds, it also fuses other genres from...

“Five Lost Dads’ Descent into Nihilism”: Strike Force Five Review

With the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike now officially over, it’s time to say goodbye to the brief, joyful and surprisingly nihilistic podcast...

A walk down Magpie Lane on one winter night

Wandering nightly through the cobbled pavements of the city of dreaming spires,I could not help but notice the darkening shade of sandstone under the...

Warhol Island: Large-scale exhibition on a German island

At the meeting point of the Austrian, Swiss, and German borders lies the historic old German town of Lindau. The entirety of the old...

A24’s Rise Through the Ranks

Celine Song’s moving debut ‘Past Lives’, the most recent release for distributor and producer A24, is being showered with critical acclaim, but this sort...

Book Recommendations from the Editors’ Desk

Read our book section editors' Michaelmas book recommendations: Rufus Jones on Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon, Ananya Parakh on Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer,...

Is Shakespeare’s Globe still Relevant?

The Globe is certainly still one of the biggest and most recognisable names when it comes to theatres despite now being over 25 years...

A Very Short Guide to Art Gallery Dates

There are a million better ways to spend an afternoon than moping around a largely windowless building with a complete stranger and an inability...

Lost In Hugh’s: The Oxford Open Doors Festival

Over the 9th and 10th of September, dozens of colleges across Oxford opened up to the public for the Oxford Open Doors Festival. Alongside...

Fringe: “Quite absurd”, Review of Blue Dragon

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”, says a harried wife to her brooding husband as she looks out onto a small and scattered audience in an...

Fringe: “Continuously Shocks”, a Review of Cruelty

“Imagine. You're a character. You're in a club.” This may be Oli's (Luke Nixon) first line to the audience but it does not feel necessary....

Fringe: “Uncannily familiar”, Review of Cowboys and Lesbians

"Immensely funny, masterfully constructed, and, uncannily familiar", Anuj Mishra reviews Billie Esplen's original play 'Cowboys and Lesbians'.

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