Saturday 5th 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 –...

Review: Gotye – Making Mirrors

Patrick Scott examines Gotye's incoherent Making Mirrors

Interview: Hopsin

Steffan Blayney talks to internet rap sensation Hopsin about going it alone and being true to yourself

Review: Antarctica

Natasha Frost is impressed by OUDS' New Writing Festival 'Antarctica', despite identifying some structural problems with the script

Who write the word? Girls.

Cherwell reconsiders 'women's writing'

Mosse-t Interesting

Jack Powell and Chloë Wicks speak to award-winning author Kate Mosse

The long and the short of it

Christy Edwall speaks with the new master of the short short story

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Producer’s Blog

Sarah Leonard on the trials and tribulations of the audition process

Blockbusters and Bueller: the 80s in film

Anna Leszkiewicz seeks out the infectious enthusiasm and big displays of 1980s cinema

A ring of writers

Rebecca Loxton introduces Oxford brand new writer's circle

Skins at Season Six

Goh Li Sian bemoans the decline of the hit teen drama

Review: The Muppets

Joseph Newall finds The Muppets well worth the ticket price

A Bluffers’ Guide to: Ambient Female Vocals

In his final Bluffers', Harry Scholes explores beautiful ambient music with female vocals

Review: Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror

Ceri Fowler tackles Sleigh Bell's second album, Reign of Terror

Review: The Shins – Port of Morrow

The elusive Natasha Frost reviews the fantastic new album from the Shins

Interview: Motion Sickness of Time Travel

Rachel Evans discusses the sounds of her forthcoming eponymous opus with Harry Scholes

New Writing Festival

Charlotte Lennon previews the New Writing Festival

Review: Gormenghast

Hannah White-Steel is entertained, but ultimately unsatisfied by this production

By An Act of Godber

Playwright John Godber talks to Charlotte Lennon about classrooms, class and critics

Culture Vulture 7th week

Cherwell’s culture editors peck at seventh week’s cultural offerings

Acceptable in the 80s

Cherwell Culture invite you to join their tenuous bid for an 80s revival

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