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

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into...
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Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...
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Picasso: Formalistic or Contextual?

Emmanuelle Soffe explores Picasso’s ‘Massacre in Korea’ with a formalist eye

Is This Art? Plate Convergences

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Anna Zanetti analyses the work of Theaster Gates

Review: Thark

Ben Ray is captivated by this innovative take on a little known 1920s farce

Profile: David Hasselhoff

Bex Watson discusses singing, slip-ups and salmon carbonara with David Hasselhoff

What is it like to be a badger?

Tom Hall speaks to the medical law tutor who lived as an animal for 15 years

Rewind: Freud and cucumbers

Mark Barclay talks about Freud and cucumbers and is generally a bit scary

Culture Corner: Kafka on the Shore

Tom Barrie tenuously talks about cats whilst discussing Haruki Murakami

Japan has a lot to answer for

Benjamin Hyde claws against the common misconceptions of Japanese anime

Review: Choir of Young Believers – Grasque

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is touched by the sensitivity in Choir of Young Believers' new album

This World Lousy: this musical not

Sophie Jordan on the innovative musical's ambiguities

How beneficial is music streaming?

Natalia Bus succumbs to the inevitability of online music

Spotlight: Why Monochrome?

Matt Roberts is tired of black and white

Better-meta-theatre

Richard Birch previews 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'

"I am back to save the universe"

Daniel Curtis investigates whether 2016 will be the year of Radiohead's comeback

Preview: Hyperdrive (Imps)

Matt Roberts is excited for improv and tech

Review: What I learned from Johnny Bevan

Naomi Gee gets political with Luke Wright

Review: Noose

Beckie Rutherford is severely unimpressed by the BT's latest offering

Review: Heavy Petting

Matt Roberts loves it when the Revue pets him heavily

Live Jazz at the Mad Hatter

A JazzSoc evening leaves Sophie Jordan convinced that jazz is still alive

Goodbye Sir Terry

Daniel Minister looks back at the career of the late Sir Terry Wogan
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