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Connor Thirlwell
In the afterword to his 2005 treatise on post-punk music from 1978-84, Rip it Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds...
Ruth Spencer Jolly
Ruth Spencer Jolly, second year Fine Artist at the Ruskin talks about what it means to make contemporary art in...
Thomas Bannatyne
1. Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner is a man pressed by financial demands and emotional damage, but that...
A hugely popular phenomenon in the US, the university a cappella craze has spent the last decade steadily spreading across the UK....
Phoebe Hyun
Image description: books and a festive lantern Although we’re a little into the Christmas vacation already, there’s still a while...
Claire Davis speaks to ceramics manufacturer Emma Bridgewater about her life, work and inspiration
Showcasing a day in the life of an Oxford Thesp. This week, less than orthodox rehearsal techniques. Can you hear...
Frey Kwa Hawking
I love obsessive rivalries. I love nemeses. I love characters so filled with hate that their enemies come to mean...
Rachel Brook
Despite the agonizingly long period production teams spent in development between Sam Raimi’s Spiderman 3 (2007) and the eventual release...
Max Freeman-Mills
The novels of Irvine Welsh are often noted for the surrealist qualities which make them difficult to envisage on the...
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Tom Hoskins
Pale Green Ghosts openly displays just how awful much of John Grant’s life has been. As an artist he’s obviously...
Neily Raymond
Image Description: yellow promotional poster for Wednesday, Death Meditation. “It doesn’t stop, until it really stops.” This is the only...
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Michael Dunne
The Bones of What You Believe, Chvrches debut full-length offering, was, as band member Iain Cook puts it “recorded in...
Clio Takas
Having recently binge-watched all four seasons of OITNB, and with each plot-line still fresh in my mind, I am ready to celebrate...
Daniel Haynes
Released barely a year after his previous novel, Slade House is simultaneously vintage David Mitchell and unlike anything he has...
Rebecca Brimble and Hannah Bradburn
Image description: The Metropolitan Museum, New York. It’s that time of year again, where an exclusive set of celebrities with...
Eleanor Sharman
Two and a half hours, an extraordinarily intimate venue, a small cast, a script of high tragedy. A challenge, for sure....
Olivia Arigho Stiles
You’d be forgiven for thinking Frightened Rabbit are unlikely to be a humorous bunch. The Scottish indie folk-rockers were propelled...
Castille Landon
Following the surprise success of Ex Machina in 2014, writer/director Alex Garland was tapped by Paramount pictures to adapt Jeff...
