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,...
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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The World’s A Stage: Japan

Cherwell investigates the arts of Noh and Kabuki

Oxford Shakespeare reaches new heights…

A second look at this week’s production of Romeo and Juliet

Radical harmony

Political radicalism - still thriving in the music industry.

A Special Boy: Review

The play promises to entertain - but does it live up to expectations?

The Winter’s Tale

Stage review of a seasonal Shakespeare classic.

Sweeney Todd

A classic piece of drama gets the Oxford treatment. Is it a clean cut or a close shave?

Neighbourhood Watch: Crime doesn’t pay

When stage comedy goes wrong.

Decemberists Review

We review 'Always the Bridsemaid'.

Alphaholics Anonymous

Guy Pewsey tackles his addiction head on meeting perky popsters Alphabeat

Blindness

Julianne Moore shines in an otherwise bland Blindness

Choke Review

We review the new film from the author of 'Fight Club'.

Leo and Russel take on the Middle East

Ian Lister finds Ridley Scott's attempt at political-action thriller somewhat lacking

Blasphemy: The Bell Jar

We give Plath a proper seeing to

Historical Histrionics

Jenni Diski's 'Apology for the Woman Reading'

Dubious Stains

Anne Fadiman's 'At Small and Large'.

This Year’s Models

When we let Andrew Mendelblat out of Oxford for a day, he headed straight for Pendon Museum

First Night Review: Through the Leaves

An impressive first night for Hamilton's lucidly directed production

The World’s A Stage: Russia

Cherwell witnesses how theatre is central to Russian cultural life

Review: The Academy

OFS, Tuesday - Saturday 6th week

A dinner enagement

Wadham Moser, Thursday-Saturday 6th week
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