Wednesday 12th November 2025

Culture

Down the rabbit hole: illustrating ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has long proved an endless source of inspiration to illustrators. Hundreds of artists have illuminated Lewis Carroll’s vision, with many viewing it as the crowning...

The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

While watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025) a few weeks ago,...

Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!

Film festivals often get a bad rep. We’ve all heard the stereotype before: they...

On the edge of honesty: ‘The Man Who Turned into a Stick’

To rehearse and perform an entire student production before the second week of Michaelmas...

Hirst’s Hidden Gems

Viccy Ibbett finds Damien Hirst an unexpected but inconsistent source of great art.

Review: Jack White – Blunderbuss

Sarah Poulten finds that Jack White's début matches greatness with an innate sense of fun

Review: Spiritualized – Sweet Heart, Sweet Light

Marc Pacitti finds that Spiritualized's new album comes the closest yet to reaching the huge potential many had worried Jason Pierce would never realise

Review: Jeff, who lives at home

Nick Hilton gets his mumble on

Review: Gatz, New York’s Public Theatre

In the lead-up to its London run, Maria Fox previews Gatz from New York

The Brazen Cheek: TT12, Week One

Brasenose's James Fennemore and Joshua Phillips make a foray into satire in this week's column

Manuscripts of Desire

Christy Edwall talks medieval manuscripts with Nicholas Perkins

Oxford Oddities #1 – Oriel

Exploring the history of Oxford colleges to discover eccentric artistic personalities. This week the focus is on Oriel alumnus 'Beau' Brummell.

Preview: Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons director Christina Drollas discusses the upcoming Playhouse production

Interview: Lemony Snicket

Hattie Soper asks Daniel Handler, official representative of Lemony Snicket, a series of unfortunate questions

Stiff as a Stoker: 100 years of Dracula

On the 100th anniversary of Bram Stoker's deathday, the Culture staff find themselves under the Count's spell.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Actor’s blog 3

Stephen Hyde on the trials and tribulations of his character's canine companion

Working Titles

Xin Fan digs up a few first titles from a selection of perennial favourites

Lauri Saksa in London

The inimitable Lauri Saksa's take on London - in colour

Celtic Waters

Sophie Baggott reflects on the waters of Wales

Review: Delilah – 2-4am Mixtape

Delilah's mixtape leaves Patrick Scott wanting more and eagerly awaiting the upcoming LP

Review: Chromatics – Kill For Love

Kyle Sawhney finds Chromatics' new LP cementing their reinvention as brooding synth-poppers, despite erring on the side of self indulgence at seventeen tracks

Review: Kindness – World, You Need A Change of Mind/ at XOYO

Matt Walsh finds out first whether Kindness' debut delivers and then how it comes across live

Review: The Cabin in the Woods

Nick Hilton spends his Easter with a new kind of horror film

Amy Rollason in Washington DC

Sunny shots from the US capital in springtime

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