Monday 2nd June 2025

Culture

A Pelican Crossing Somewhere on Green Dragon Lane

"The passage of time is a bloodthirsty hound."
The Source Briony Arnott -

Doctor Zhivago: The banned book the CIA smuggled across the Iron Curtain

“May it make its way around the world. You are hereby invited to watch...
Books Kavya Kapadia -

Sally Rooney, a Flaubert for today?

Like millions of other people in recent years, I have fallen victim to the...
Books Richard Kuehl -

Twenty-seven years on from The Satanic Verses: Can works of fiction be political?

On the 16th May, the man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie following a literary...
Books Ivett Berenyi -
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Voices from the Past: J. R. R. Tolkien

Hear the 'Lord of the Rings' author speak the lines from his famous poem 'One Ring to Rule Them All'

Walking the Old Ways with Robert MacFarlane

Max Long discusses landscape, people and place with Robert MacFarlane, author of The Old Ways

Review: Whiplash

Jennie Han is impressed with the unrelenting, staccato rhythm of Whiplash

Review: Enemy

Anthony Maskell thinks that Enemy is a film of Orwellian paranoia and bleak isolation

Preview: Richard Parker

Christian Amos gets an inside look at this exciting new play

Review: Into the Woods

Aimee Kwan is spellbound by Into the Woods’ big-screen adaptation

Review: Testament of Youth

Naomi Morris Omori appreciates Testament of Youth’s searing poignancy

John Williams’ Stoner: ahead of its time

50 years on, Rose Sykes asks why this book was forgotten

Rembrandt: The late works at the National Gallery

Mark Barclay feels that the paintings of the Dutch master strike a powerful chord

New term, new Audrey

Bethan Roberts checks out this term's first comedic offering

Barbarism begins: Meat is Murder at thirty

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull looks back at a classic album from The Smiths

Preview: The Dumb Waiter

Fay Watson gets the low-down on this production of a Harold Pinter classic

Review: Belle and Sebastian-Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull finds himself underwhelmed by two-thirds of the band's ninth album

Review: Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

Aidan Clark reviews the latest album from the experimental musician and co-founding member of Animal Collective

Review: Death Grips – Fashion Week

Henry Bruce-Jones reviews the latest surprise offering from the supposedly no longer together experimental hip hop group

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 2

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Edward Bond’s Saved

Fergus Morgan examines the monstrosity of violence in Edward Bond's controversial work

Frankenstein, Godzilla and now Norman Foster

Ollie Johnson decries the monstrous state of our modern city skylines

Where are they now: Nizlopi

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to

Shades of the Savannah

Rachael Griffith plays with the Malawian, Zambian and Kenyan sunshine in this collection of vivid photos
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