Sunday 6th 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,...
The Source Cici Zhang -

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.
Art Dara Mohd -

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

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...
Art Josie Stern -

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 –...
Music Tom Cockburn -
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Interview: Neil Cowley

Stephen Bradshaw talks jazz-rock hybrids with pianist Neil Cowley

Review: Simple Minds – Big Music

Kayleigh Tompkins is let down by the 'lacklustre' new record from Simple Minds

Milestones: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Bethan Roberts ponders the significance of the famous obscenity trial

The naked truth about sex in the arts

Naomi Polonsky explores the portrayal of sex in Western culture from the Classical to the contemporary

Review: Neil Young – Storytone

Lata Nobes finds something amiss in Young's new album

Review: Deptford Goth – Songs

Has Deptford Goth lost its touch? Luke Barratt reviews the 'pedestrian' new release

Butt-plugs aren’t as edgy as they were

Isaac Goodwin hates Paul McCarthy and his provocative artworks

Review: Freud’s Auerbach Collection at the Tate

Sabhbh Curran likes what she sees at the Tate’s intimate tribute to a unique artistic friendship

Review: Dahling You Were Marvellous

Steven Berkoff's masterful satire is as tight as a drum, but comedically inconsistent, says Fergus Morgan

Review: Superfood — Don’t Say That

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull is left unsatisfied by the 'inane mass' that is Superfood's new album

Review: Old Times

This faithful recreation of one of Pinter’s most wired, unyielding plays explores the tones and half-tones of memory, manipulation, and sexuality

Review: Serena

This confused and tactless drama left Sam Joyce disconnected from any sense of emotional involvement

Review: Love, Rosie

Rosie Sykes found this tale of living with the life choices we make a lurching, clumsy affair

Preview: Dahling, You Were Marvellous

Anastasia Gilfillan gets an early glimpse into this production of Steven Berkoff's hilarious satire

Oxford Lieder Festival: Doric Quartet

Cherwell spends a fiery evening with Schubert at the Oxford Lieder Festival

Review: Esarhaddon: The Substitute King

Claire Poynton-Smith finds much to be admired in this tale of intrigue in the ancient Assyrian court

Milestones: Picasso vs Matisse

Naomi Polonsky takes a look at the creative rivalry between Picasso and Matisse

Preview: Portrait of Jason

In the run-up to a screening of Shirley Clarke's 1967 Portrait of Jason, Eleanor Diamond considers the dubious production of the iconic LGBT film.

Where Are They Now: Las Ketchup

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to

Review: French For Rabbits – Spirit

French For Rabbits' new release is a soothing soundtrack for an essay crisis
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