Friday 4th July 2025

Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

Coloured squares, black pigs and the art of abstraction

Atalanta Xanthe reviews Richard Diebenkorn's retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy

The Ugly Politics of the Silver Screen

Anthony Maskell discusses the negative portrayal of politicians in film and TV

Unpacking the Bodleian libraries

Fintan Calpin reviews Marks of Genius at the Weston Library

Preview: Living Together

Joanna Connolly takes a look at Trinity’s Playhouse show

Mr Spacey’s finest hour?

Michael Burns reviews Spacey’s take on the legendary Clarence Darrow 

Review: Amber Run

Verity Hubbard finds little to redeem 5AM, Amber Run's debut album

Review: Blur

Kieran Vaghela finds little new in Blur's latest offering, 'Magic Whip'

Live Review: James Bay

Susan Yu is stunned by Bay's live performance

Joni Mitchell: much misunderstood, much revered

Catherine Kelly discusses the musical pioneer that is Joni Mitchell

Review: Sufjan Stevens

Bryony Harris is intrigued by the personal nature of Steven's new album Carrie & Lowell

Review: Cake

Anthony Maskell finds Cake an airy and predictable slice of award bait

Review: Earl Sweatshirt

Kieran Vaghela is impressed, if not surprised, by 'I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside'

Interview: Twin Atlantic

Rachael Griffith talks to Sam McTrusty, lead singer of Twin Atlantic

Photographing a hidden Jamaica

Michael Burns explores a history of the island in pictures

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 1

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

First farce, then tragedy: The Rise of Islamic State

Ben Cooke reviews Patrick Cockburn's timely new work

Milestones: Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses the complex identities that work together to forge Henry Fuseli’s masterpiece of gothic art

Double or nothing: is there truth behind the doppelgänger?

Following one woman’s successful search, Elliot Langley explores the idea throughout history

A view from the cheap seat

The Oxford theatre establishment gets sued...

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