Culture
Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
I walked into the Wyndham Theatre’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill half-expecting a night at the London Theatre like any other. Beer in hand,...
Film around the world – Turkey’s Atıf Yılmaz
Atıf Yılmaz was a Turkish film director. Until his death in 2006, he was...
The Christ Church Picture Gallery: Review
The Christ Church Picture Gallery has free entry for Oxford students. It offers a chance to view one of the most impressive college art collections, with pieces spanning the 14th to 18th centuries
Men used to go to war – now they DJ
Why are so many people becoming DJs? This recent obsession has taken the world...
Matchstick Cats
Mark and Trev were surrounded on the bed of the truck by old wooden...
Great Novels: Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon’s manic schizophrenic novel, originally titled ‘Mindless Pleasures’, is a quasi-sequel to his previous work V, which had appeared in 1963 to...
Review: Mort
Thank heavens Mort is showing in 8th Week of Hilary: the term of sickness, stress and freak exams for an unlucky few. Well –...
Panel Discussion: The Role of the Art School in the 21st Century, Modern Art Oxford
Richard Wentworth, Master of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, initially seemed slightly taken aback to discover that he was the sole...
Concert review: Tomas Gould & John Reid play Schubert, Szymanowski and Schumann
Holywell Music Room, 2nd March 2008Wandering past a posterboard for the Holywell Music Room coffee concerts it is easy to feel a twinge of...
Classical review: Oxford Chamber Orchestra play Copland, Barber and Haydn
Sheldonian Theatre, 8.30pm, February 29th 2008The Oxford Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Jonathan Williams, gave a programme connecting the 20th century back to...
Roth by numbers – a review of Philip Roth’s latest novel, ‘Exit Ghost’
Nathan Zuckerman, a writer living out his winter years in rural isolation, believes he finally has a handle on unpredictability. Prostate cancer has left...
Ready For The Floor?
James Louis Gallagher reviews Hot Chip live at the Carling Academy Hot Chip’s reputation as one of the best live bands on the electro scene...
Quills
After the Moser’s lavish costume drama Dangerous Liaisons in third week, the powdered wigs and buckled shoes return for this gripping production of Quills at the OFS
Review: Dangerous Liaisons
by Frankie Parham *** Beneath all the powdered wigs and tightly strung corsets, 18th century France was bursting with selfish, sex-crazed,...
Wanted: one Alistair Campbell
The REAL election '08I picked up this election leaflet (pictured) outside Frankfurt University the other day. It's from the far-left Party for Social Equality...
Single review: ‘Beautiful Burnout’, Underworld
Underworld is the electronic mastermind duo of Rick Smith and Karl Hyde. 2007 saw them return to the arena of exciting and experimental electronica...
I want to break free
Collections are over, Oxford’s wetter than the North Sea and the transition from Hollyoaks addict to workaholic is not going smoothly. Time to get...
An organ is a gift, and not a right
Changing the law on organ donation to one of presumed consent will mean that we are all organ donors unless we have formally registered...
Job losses with no consultation: education policy the Labour way
The government has decided that it will no longer fund people seeking to do a higher education course at an equivalent level to a...
