Christopher Roberts, Author at Cherwell

Begdorf Blondes – Plum Sykes

If you scorn fashion and designer names, disdain the Bridge on a Thursday night, and prefer Marks and Spenser’s to Harrods, avoid this book...

Not Fade Away

A confession: although On The Road is a fun read, I found that it never quite lived up to its reputation. The idea behind...

Something Beginning With

Someone once wrote a novel without any words containing the letter E in it. There is also a novel written in 26 chapters, with...

Dark Star Safari – Paul Theroux

In a recently published essay, Theroux states that he eschews cameras and travel snaps. A bold claim, but his descriptive prose in Dark Star...

African adventure

Four recent St. John’s graduates, NICK STANHOPE, REBECCA GOWLAND, JONNY POLONSKY and ROBERT HADMAN give us weekly updates as they cycle the length of...

Underwhelming

I want to bottle-fuck you slowly with my sunglasses on. Well, there’s something to try out next time you’re in Filth. Yum. These are...

Watch all the Clocks

The passing of time has always been a fascinating and troubling notion for mankind, and the thought of somehow ‘caging the minute’, to borrow...

Ovid meets modern identities in Sap

Oxford’s first Hip-Hop Society breaks it down

61% of Oxford tutorials done via short term contracts...

Oxford University and Corpus Christi College take action following...

Christopher Roberts