Thursday 3rd 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 –...

Female country singers: The voices we need to hear

Emily Beswick advocates the home-grown lyrics of female country stars

On Speaking Together

Theophilus Kwek reflects on a term of collaborations at the Oxford University Poetry Society

Top 10 Christmas cover songs

Ellen Peirson-Hagger picks out the best ten Christmas covers to liven up your festive playlist

Escher and the contradiction

Mark Barclay surveys the first ever Escher retrospective

The Death Of Art?: Turner Prize nominees 2015

An analysis of the 2015 Turner prize nominees and its increasingly tenuous definition of art.

Have you read the book yet?

Charlie Willis tiptoes over the social minefield of festive book-giving

Review: Bridge of Spies

Freddie Hopkinson reviews Steven Spielberg's latest film

Taking a journey with ‘Dart’

Ben Ray is swept away by the performance of this epic poem

Proximity: Review

Cherwell has a convert to contemporary dance

Oxford Revue XMAS party Review

Questionable postmodernity abound...

Review: Julius Caesar

One show, two reviewers. As in Rome, there can only be one...

Review: Onlife

Rose Taylor had an interesting encounter with an actor

Celebrity Children Restored my Faith in Humanity

Sam Joyce argues that we should leave procreation to those with DNA worth passing on.

Preview: Proximity

Mark Barclay tries to hide the fact he's a terrible dancer with fancy words

Milestones: Leonardo DiCaprio’s head

This week, Fintan Calpin looks at how DiCaprio’s utilisation of his own body parts has managed to keep him ahead in the movie industry

Don’t forget your Valuables

Henner Petin remembers puberty, or lack thereof

Freak: Ah…Puberty?

Rose Taylor applauds this intelligent take on sexuality

Top songs for your sex playlist

We know you have one - here are some choice tunes to suit any mood

On the winner of the Mercury Prize: Benjamin Clementine

Ellen Peirson-Hagger shares her thoughts on Clementine's victory

Buzzcocks’ Steve Diggle: punk legend and closet philosopher

Bryony Harris and the punk star talk being the last gang in town, ageing, philosophy and boredom

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