Monday 7th 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: Yuck – Stranger Things

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is unimpressed by Yuck's latest album

Review: Kanye West — The Life of Pablo

Tom Barrie doesn't fall for Kanye's latest Tidal wave of ego

An evening of Illuminations in Iffley

Sophie Jordan watches Corona Strings take on Britten

The Coral: always getting proggier

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks psychedelia, books and hunger with keys-player Nick Power

The art of creating the past

Daniel Kodsi muses on escapism and the nature of literary, historical and personal truths

Rewind: Apollo 18 & 13

Ollie Johnson analogically rewinds back to Apollo 18 and 13 with style

Profile: Marina & The Diamonds

Emmanuelle Soffe talks synaesthesia and self-searching with Marina and the Diamonds.

Preview: Coriolanus

Matt Roberts loves Roman politics, and you should too

Luminaries: William Shatner

Dan Minister looks back on the career of William Shatner

We fought a war for this

Dan Minister wishes he'd never seen Dad's Army

Astounding concept, flawed execution

Matt Roberts has a lot of fun with the Imps, despite some technical hitches

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 4

Steve Wright enjoys the British weather

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 3

Ben Ray goes to Cornmarket Street

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 2

Mary Ann Clark thinks about the concept of home, looking back and the prospect of arrival

Warhol in fresh light

Surya Bowyer reviews the Ashmolean’s Andy Warhol exhibition.

Pyrotechnics, Smoke and Mirrors

Matt Roberts is exciting for a Phantom of the Opera packed full of wizardry

William Shakespeare and the year of Lear

Timothy Wade finds James Shapiro overestimates the Bard

Is This Art? The X Factor

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Charlie Willis strays into the realms of performance art and takes on the X factor

Profile: Katie Hopkins

Akshay Bilolikar discusses Oxford, offensiveness and the Oscars with Katie Hopkins

Rewind: Ezra Pound

Bex Watson rewinds to Ezra Pound and is a tad guilty for liking him so much

Follow us