Thursday, May 1, 2025

Culture

Review: Allegro Pastel by Leif Randt

Tanja Arnheim and Jerome Aimler are Millennials in a long-distance relationship. Tanja is a Berlin-based novelist and Jerome a Frankfurt-based web designer. They text regularly and occasionally visit one...

Please, no more biopics!

A few weeks ago, Sam Mendes announced his casting for the Beatles biopics he...

Writers on Writing: Reflections on the 2025 Oxford Literary Festival

The Oxford Literary Festival is one of those events I hear about every year,...

Your essential guide to the music of May Day

May Day: It’s unique, convivial and quintessentially Oxford. Only once a year does the...

Interview: John Hurt

Ben Williams talks to a cinematic icon.

Neighbourhood Watch: Figment

Sean Lennon digs the fig.

Interview: Pendulum

Thomas Barrett speaks to drum and bass stars Pendulum.

Review: The Sabotage Café

Amber Coakes reviews Joshua Furst's new novel.

Gift Exchange

Gift Exchange Ovada Gallery Until 24th May

Review: Kill Your Friends

John Niven’s debut novel draws on the writer’s own experience as an A&R man in the late nineties, but its stab at postmodernism are clumsy.

Review: The Nose

BT Studio

Review: God’s Own Country

God's Own Country Ross Raisin 4 stars out of 5

More chipmunk than Chimera

Angela Cockayne Chimera Mus. of Hist. of Science Until 1st June 1 star out of 5  

Review: The Rose Labyrinth

Sam Losey gets lost in Titiana Hardie's latest work.

Theatrical Thrills

Looking back to Edward II.

In defence of the musical

Swing when you're winning, says Ash Barker.

Review: Spring Quartets

BT Studio 2nd Week Tues - Sat

Interview: Sir Peter Stothard

Daniel Rolle discusses the changing face of journalism with the editor of the TLS.

Tindersticks – ‘The Hungry Saw’

Daniel Rolle reviews "The Hungry Saw".

Matmos – "Supreme Balloon"

James Armshaw reviews the 'holiday from conceptual responsibility'.

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