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...
Loyle Carner: A new poignant, personal, and political voice of rap
Loyle Carner’s 2022 album Hugo openly grapples with his heritage and identity, his performances openly discuss climate change and racism, and he even samples...
Falling at the first hurdle: this Barbie is a radical feminist
“Yeah, I liked it, I just wasn’t expecting it to be so political” declared my (female) friend as we discussed Greta Gerwig’s record-breaking comedy....
What can books say that we can’t?
As people, we love to talk - to other people, to ourselves, to the mirror (don’t lie, everyone does it!) We all have opinions...
‘Hamlet’ in the Modern World: Interview with Cast and Crew
Shakespeare is making a return to Oxford's Keble O'Reilly and it’s a big one, Hamlet is back and fresher than ever!
When I heard there...
Glittering Girls
Giggling, high heels caught in cobblestone as you collapseIn my arms as you’re wrecked with another fit of laughter-You shriek in delight, stumble over...
A Summer as a Volunteer at the National Portrait Gallery
The ‘Long Vac’ is called ‘long’ for a reason and I did not want to waste a second of it. When I saw...
“A Must-See”: Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean
I did not know what to expect when I arrived at the Ashmolean to preview their newest exhibition, Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion &...
“A Gripping Memoir”: ‘Stay True’ by Hua Hsu Review
Recently I picked up a book that had been on my to-read list for a while. Stay True by Hua Hsu came out last...
Can our individual habits solve the fast fashion problem?
It is no mystery that fast fashion is a Bad Thing. I’ve spent a lot of time in recent years thinking about fast fashion,...
“Emotionally and physically draining”: ‘A Little Life’ on West End
Ivo Van Hove’s dramatization of Hanya Yanagihara’s divisive novel A Little Life took to the West End this summer, with a brief stint at...
Manele: the controversy around Romani music in Romania
Manele is a modern form of Romani (or Roma) music in Romania. Using traditional Romani instruments and sounds, it also fuses other genres from...
“Five Lost Dads’ Descent into Nihilism”: Strike Force Five Review
With the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike now officially over, it’s time to say goodbye to the brief, joyful and surprisingly nihilistic podcast...
A walk down Magpie Lane on one winter night
Wandering nightly through the cobbled pavements of the city of dreaming spires,I could not help but notice the darkening shade of sandstone under the...
Warhol Island: Large-scale exhibition on a German island
At the meeting point of the Austrian, Swiss, and German borders lies the historic old German town of Lindau. The entirety of the old...
