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New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the Caribbean, this year Black History Month is celebrated uniquely in Oxford. The inaugural exhibition at...

“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...

‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two: Complex and compelling

Reality TV series The Traitors has returned with its celebrity version and has topped viewing charts for a second time. People are hooked on the show where logical reasoning and random chance are simultaneously at play, in a game full of drama, tension, and cliffhangers.

Oxford’s art scene: A picture still being painted

Who gets to make art, who gets to see it, and whose art history...

Review: The Invention of Love

This evocative production left Alex du Sautoy misty-eyed

Review: Crave

Will Granger reviews this brave attempt at a daunting script

Review: Vinegar Tom

Go to be provoked rather than entertained, says Ellie Hindes

Review: The Philanthropist

A funny, mature and professional production, says John Warriner

Review: The Aphorist

This show's potential overpeers its problems, says Josh Baldwin

Review: The Wolfman

A film that lacks bite

Online review: Invictus

A painfully inept plot overshadows brief flashes of brilliance

The Open Heart of Colin Thubron

Our Books Editor discusses the art of travel with one of its finest living exponents

Review: A Single Man

A truly heartbreaking work of staggering beauty

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Andris Nelsons/Baiba Skride)

Classical music review: Sheldonian Theatre, 5th February

Boxing: Town vs. Gown

Town triumph 7-4 over Gown - Photo Special!

Awesome Oxford Photography: Week 4

Almost half way through term, here's what it looks like...

Review: Ruddigore

Louisa-Claire Dunnigan gets a sneak preview of the first musical offering of the theatrical term!

‘In this world but not of it’

A look back over the uncompromising career of the late J.D. Salinger

Auschwitz-Birkenau-Bambi

A review of Miroslav Balka's 'Topography'

Review: Our Country’s Good

Meta theatre and good bad acting make this a production worth seeing

Writers on Track: NWF

The Producer of the New Writing Fesitval lets us know how it's all going

Review: One Life Stand by Hot Chip

A four-star fourth offering

Review: Odd Blood by Yeasayer

Album of the decade (so far).

Interview: Dev Heynes

The Lightspeed Champion talks Test Icicles with Cherwell

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