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Between beer gardens and picnics: Climate Culture Care at the Ashmolean

When I returned to Oxford this term, just as England teased us with the sixth heat-wave of the year, I found myself at a loose end. With the deadline for two vacation essays still far in the distance, the sun lit up the sign for Soma Surovi Jannat’s Ashmolean Now exhibition, Climate Culture Care.

“What is a good life?”: The Standard of Living in review 

“What is a good life?” This axiological question, asked earnestly in the opening lines of James Graham’s The Standard of Living – playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket until December 12 – is often overlooked by the fractured and hyper-specialised discipline of economics.

Diverse voices: ‘Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah’ by Miljenko Jergović 

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into...

Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...

Postcards: the last vestige of sincerity

Simran Uppal would quite like someone to pidge him a Valentine, but only if it’s physical

Looking through the window

Natasha Burton argues that postcards are more than just cultural snapshots

Minor Dundee?

Altair Brandon-Salmon looks back at Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965)

Review: Hail, Caesar!

Jem Bartholomew feels the latest Coen Brothers offering was one big inside joke

Review: Living Hour debut album

The band's self-named album reminds Sophie Jordan of past summers

Horn smuggling at the Sheldonian

Sophie Jordan is amused by OUPhil's emphatic Mahler

Weather forecast: rain doo-wops

Daniel Kodsi disagrees with the complacency of M. Ward's eighth album More Rain

Review: C Duncan at the Old Fire Station

Ellen Peirson-Hagger experiences a taste of geeky indie rock

Taking Notes

Theophilus Kwek reviews Oxford’s fortnightly literature and art magazine

Preview: Rape of Lucretia

Matt Roberts and Ellie Gomes are excited for this bold new production

EDM, MJ and fresh-faced success

Dutch DJ Martin Garrix takes on the Oxford Guild

Rewind: Innocence of Muslims

Tristan Upton looks back to 2012 to discuss the simplification of tragedy by journalists

Rare books need to be read

John Ryan extols engagement and investment in college collections

Culture Corner: Lady Gaga

Priya Khaira-Hanks shouts back at the sanitisation of rape culture

Is This Art? Lynton Crosby

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Naomi Gee takes on Lynton Crosby

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 6

This week Miriam Gordis explores the concept of paradise

The Art of Our Time

Surya Bowyer looks at Pembroke College’s new exhibition

Preview: The Marriage of Kim K

A post-modern adaptation of the classic comic opera

Review: The Somme Battlefield — The top 20 places to visit

Caitlin Law reviews Ruaraidh Adams-Cairns battlefield guide and explores the Somme from a personal angle

InstaUgly: behind the beauty

Rachel Evans discusses the darker side of Instagram, and where it leads us

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