Culture

Seeped in nostalgia: ‘Things I Know To Be True’ reviewed

Lighthouse Productions' 'Things I Know to Be True' had high expectations to meet. Put frankly, they nailed it.

Culture Charlie Bailey -

Well-educated, fairly bred, but without money: Gissing’s ‘Collected Short Stories’

Hassan Akram reviews the Collected Short Stories of George Gissing, edited and introduced by Pierre Coustillas.

Books Hassan Akram -

Let’s go to the movies: Fennec Fox Productions’ ‘The Flick’

After their staging of Company at the Oxford Playhouse earlier this term, Fennec Fox Productions are set to return next week with a run of The Flick (2013) at the Burton Taylor Studio.

Culture Beatrix Arnold -

A deeply Singaporean play: In conversation with ‘Late Company’

OUMSSA Theatre makes their debut with Jordan Tannahill’s Late Company. While the text originated in Canada, OUMSSA Theatre’s take on it is nonetheless entrenched in Singaporean culture.

Culture Jessica Phillips -

Death of an art form?

James Maloney tells us why album art is not a thing of the past

Out of the frying pan

James Maloney chats to Hot Chip's Joe Goddard about the band's new album, their school days... and fire

What you’ve been missing

A new column introducing you to little-known or underrated art-forms. This week: contemporary Arabic poetry

Earth: Art of a changing world

A major collaboration at the Royal Academy taking a conceptual look at the climate change issue.

Squaring the vicious circle

Our Books Editor reviews Eugene Rogan's impressive 'Arabs a History'

Squaring the vicious circle HRSP

Our Books Editor reviews Eugene Rogan's impressive 'Arabs a History'

Drama Briefing

Our regular bulletin giving you the lowdown on jobs, plays, workshops and other dramatic titbits.

Toying with our emotions

Cherwell finds that behind the merry title lies a disturbing show

Hilary’s dramatic highlights

Our Stage Editor takes a look at what's on stage this term.

35 years since: Blood on the Tracks

Alistair Smout takes a look back at one of Bob Dylan's most enduring musical achievements

Video: The Magic Toyshop

A rapid look at the upcoming Playhouse show

Review: The Road

Admirable, but can never quite follow in the novel's footsteps.

Review: Daybreakers

It should never have seen the light of day

Top 10: Marketing Managers

These people are Oxford's answer to Maurice Saatchi

Review: Ed Ruscha – Fifty Years of Painting

Annabel James visits the retrospective of one of the most influential and pioneering American artists

Review: Sherlock Holmes

A reworking that actually works

A Decade in Music

Cherwell's Music Editors pick the best albums of the noughties

Book Review: Wolf Hall

Our Books Editor is underwhelmed by this year's Man Booker Prize winner

Interview: Lucy Caldwell

The award-winning playwright talks about the beginnings of her career

Review: Turner Prize 2009

Annabel James explores this year's entrees to the ever controversial Prize

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