Tuesday 8th 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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Where Are They Now: Vengaboys

In our regular feature, Helen Thomas explains that Vengaboys' latest efforts are more terrifying than titillating

Review: John Powell – How To Train Your Dragon 2

Stephen Bradshaw reviews the soundtrack to the latest Viking Hollywood invasion

Review: Jack White – Lazaretto

Jack White's new album struggles to escape the eclipse of his current personal problems

Review: Kasabian – 48:13

Kasabian's latest effort is nothing earth shattering, but inoffensive nonetheless

Review: Mametz

Bethan Roberts finds National Theatre Wales' latest production to be a moving and innovative look at one of the key battles of the First World War

Live Review: Schola Cantorum

Tom Stafford reviews the latest concert from Oxford's top chamber choir.

Best of Cherwell etc. TT14

Cherwell rounds up the best of this term's creative output

Cherwell Festival Guide II- Reading and Leeds

Unfortunately, Cherwell Music cannot literally hold your hand as you drunkenly stumble around a cider tent somewhere in the home counties to the sound of a thrash metal Mumford & Sons tribute act. But we can guide you through the highs and lows of the British festival season, and help you to separate your Glastonbury from your Glamorgan & District Annual Cub Scout Jamboree.

Cherwell Festival Guide I – Bestival

Unfortunately, Cherwell Music cannot literally hold your hand as you drunkenly stumble around a cider tent somewhere in the home counties to the sound of a thrash metal Mumford & Sons tribute act. But we can guide you through the highs and lows of the British festival season, and help you to separate your Glastonbury from your Glamorgan & District Annual Cub Scout Jamboree.

Cherwell’s #1 Summer Playlist

It's that time of year again, and as always, Cherwell has you fully prepared (although you may want to invest in an umbrella).

Review: Grace of Monaco

Grace of Monaco is a saccharine mess of a film that is utterly unengaging in every respect

Review: Maleficent

Anna Corderoy finds this a confused effort that doesn't really know what it wants to achieve

Think on your sins, the apocalypse is nigh!

Since the Cold War, we've been blaming ourselves for the end of the world, observes Luke Barratt

Top 3… Cliffhangers

Emma Simpson lists three jaw-dropping conclusions

Milestones: The Berlin Wall

Jack Doyle looks at the fall of the Berlin Wall and its cultural impact

Failed Novelists: the epitome of unselfconscious cool

Isaac Goodwin and Joel Nelson talk anthologies and collaborations with the Failed Novelists President

Review: Othello

Luke Barratt enjoys an excellent evening of outdoor Shakespeare

Review: Back To The Excellent Hot Tub Time Machine

Libby Wicks questions the excellence of this hot tub time machine

Live Review: Drenge

Helen Thomas compares the sound of Drenge to treacle.

Review: R&J

Lisa Bernhardt heralds the challenging of gender norms in this production of Shakespeare's classic
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