Holocaust Memorial Day: what the lives of the ordinary people of Nazi Germany tell us about being an ordinary person today
“My problem when I was at Oxford was I tried way too hard and I was constantly trying to work and I just burned out spectacularly”
Another small step for man: Are the aims behind NASA’s plans to send astronauts back to the moon purely scientific?
Culture·18th September 2022The Banshees of Inisherin – Review Jason Chau The Banshees of Inisherin: 8/10 Directed by Martin McDonaugh. Starring Colin Farrell, Brendon Gleeson, Barry Keoghan Two friends living on... Read More
Culture·11th June 2022Way Out Yonder: Understanding ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ before You See the Movie Abigail Stevens CW – domestic abuse, child abandonment, sexual assault MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! “Way out yonder, where the crawdads sing, the marsh... Read More
Culture·11th June 2022Review: Dangerous Waters by Pentaquark Productions Jenna Colaco Dangerous Waters is an adaptation of Henrick Ibsen’s Enemy of the People, a play about the tensions surrounding the health... Read More
Culture·10th June 2022‘Whimsical soft-centred happy-all-the-way’: Yii-Jen Deng We both brought silly books to Oxford interviews, my friend and I, though I only remember hers – it was... Read More
Culture·31st May 2022Doctor Strange and the Demilitarisation of the Marvel-Industrial Complex Will Neill Spoilers to follow… Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a glorious disaster: a multi-million dollar, two-hour-long absolute train... Read More
Culture·27th May 2022Summer reads: a drift with Albert Camus Matthew Holland I was first introduced to Camus, rather informatively about my internet habits, from a quote on the Reddit page r/QuotesPorn,... Read More
Culture·20th May 2022Review: Omnium Gatherum by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Joe Wald Omnium Gatherum, the latest release by Australian quasi-psychedelic prog rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, is an acid-fuelled... Read More
News·14th May 2022Oxford Kite Festival to feature artists and thinkers such as Grace Jones, Richard Dawkins, and Ai Weiwei Dania Kamal Aryf Oxford Kite Festival markets itself as “a new festival of ideas and music”, and will be taking place between... Read More
Culture·14th May 2022Heartstopper Kiki Wrece Heartstopper was released on 22 April, and within days it had found a place on Netflix’s Top 10 TV programmes.... Read More
Culture·13th May 2022Review: Little Shop of Horrors Joe Wald The Eglesfield Music Society’s rendition of Ashman and Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors is wall-to-wall delights. A heartwarming thrill ride... Read More
International Issues·30th June 2022Blowing Up Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky and Michael Stanchev review: an urgent warning for us all Yii-Jen Deng We are not yet afraid, but this book speaks of war. Flinging before us a panoramic view of Ukraine and... Read More
Entertainment·11th June 2022Review: Tick, Tick…Boom! Abigail Stevens Spoilers ahead! It is unlikely that anyone would have ever heard of Tick, Tick…Boom! if it weren’t for the later... Read More
Culture·11th June 2022Cannes 2022: a step up to heaven? Duoya Li The 75th Cannes Film Festival has returned this May with its pre-pandemic glamour, but the film industry as well as... Read More
Entertainment·2nd June 2022Total Annihilation and Teenage Angst: Carrie Review Abigail Stevens CW – domestic abuse, violence Spoilers ahead! Being seventeen is the worst, but at least your prom wasn’t smashed to... Read More
Features·27th May 2022Eurovision: A European Treasure Isabel Schmidt Nothing makes us feel more connected as a continent than the Eurovision Song Contest. This annual competition involves contestants from... Read More
Culture·21st May 2022Book Review: “Chums” by Simon Kuper Yii-Jen Deng I write this review with the redbrick Union visible from my window and the sound of applause within earshot, though... Read More
Entertainment·15th May 2022Review: Dracula by Serendipity Productions Abigail Stevens Working on my dissertation nonstop certainly makes me feel undead, so it was a relief to take a night off... Read More
Culture·14th May 2022The Gilded Age back to page Duoya Li The HBO TV series The Gilded Age has recently announced the launching of a second season, after the first nine... Read More
Entertainment·14th May 2022Much Ado About Nothing Elsie Clark Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s classic comedy of love and trickery, made a fantastic debut this week in the beautiful... Read More