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 –...

Here Comes The Beat…

Rachel looks ahead to the royal wedding with a little musical dread.

Pay Day for tax dodgers

Jessica Goodman was in London to document a day of action against corporate tax evaders

Giant-Baby and The End of Love

Annabel James previews two new shows at Modern Art Oxford

‘Don’t call me Shirley!’

A tribute to Leslie Nielsen and the spoof film

Santa’s Bookbag

We asked our bookworms what's on their wishlists this Christmas; here's what they told us

Review: The Sound of Music

Cherwell Stage shrugs off its intellectual aspirations for an evening of classic Austrian cheese

Review: Of Gods and Men

A quiet, gripping and urgently relevant masterpiece.

How to fill your Oxford drama vac-uum

A look at what's on in Oxford over Christmas

The Battle of Westminster in pictures

We sent our photoreporters to document the most dramatic day yet in the campaign against higher education reforms

The X3 protests

We sent our photoreporters to document the events of an unusual day in London

Why bother with Godard?

As JLG celebrates his 80th birthday, Cherwell considers the legacy behind the acronym

We Need To Talk About Steve

We wonder about interviews with authors. What are they for, and what should we ask?

Eighth Week!

So it's nearly time for that last essay. Don't forget to keep checking our photos till its really the end.

Wham, bam, Peter Pan

Will Hooper previews the last Moser show of the term - a feel-good panto all in the name of charity

Rad Cam stormed – photo story

What happens when the Rad Cam gets stormed by angry students? We send our best photographers, of course.

Best track of 2010: Born Free – M.I.A

'If ever a song was recorded as an excuse for a music video, it was ‘Born Free’.'

Review: High violet – The National

'This isn’t just another depressive US indie album'

The best new music of 2010

Cherwell's Music Editor reflects on the rejuvenation of rock and indie

Was the year easy on the ear?

Matt Walsh and Alex Dudok de Wit summarise the highs and lows of 2010’s music

Proust: A simple guide

Tom Cutterham explains how to attack 'À la recherche du temps perdu'

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