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What are you looking at? A reflection on the Ashmolean’s Aphrodite exhibition 

The woman crouches, nude. A gauzy blue curtain hangs where she hides her chest; behind it I can just see the other artefacts. She isn’t looking at me. Over...
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The midterms and the YA novel: Impossibly happy endings

Given its intense media coverage and everything that seems to be on the line, I feel as though I have been anxiously awaiting the results of the 2026 US midterm elections for weeks, months – maybe years.
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How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be...
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The burden of the face: Why are so many singers wearing masks?

We can all name at least one musician who has performed behind a balaclava, helmet, or hood. Whether to preserve anonymity, cultivate mystery, or construct an entirely new artistic identity, masking the face is common among those under the limelight.
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Preview of Maria Stuarda

Preview of Welsh National Opera's production of Maria Stuarda at the New Theatre

Preview of Anna Bolena

A preview of WNO's production of Anna Bolena, soon to be shown at the New Theatre

Postcard from Nantes

First in a series of features where students on their year abroad send Cherwell a postcard

Interview: Jacqueline Wilson

Holly Whiston talks fame, fiction and feminism with the 'lovely' Jacqueline Wilson

Review: The Old Ways

Adam Whiley ambles through Robert McFarlane's hommage to the humble act of walking

Review: Francis Bacon/Henry Moore

Beth Timmins contemplates a unique opportunity to see the artist and the sculptor exhibited together

The Fresher’s Guide to Cuppers

A gentle introduction to the fray that is OUDS' annual drama competition

The New Revue

The Oxford Revue has been rehauled and sexed up in time for Michaelmas

An Introduction to Deep House

Sam Ward breaks down five deep house classics

A Month in Music

As the summer comes to a close, Jack Chown reviews some of September's offerings...

Review: 10×10: Drawing the City London

Cherwell was invited along to Article 25's annual workshop of Britain's most exciting architects

Review: Joe Bedell-Brill – Drifters

William Pimlott is captured by this debut EP

Interview: Debut Novelist Lauren Johnson

Lauren Johnson tells Cherwell Arts and Books about her first novel, The Arrow of Sherwood.

The Mercury Prize – A celebration of ‘beige’?

The music awards that hinder rather than help Britain's rising stars...

Review: Arctic Monkeys – AM

'Why on earth would they ever look back?'

Review: Houghton Revisited

Mimi Goodall is underwhelmed by the return of Robert Walpole's collection

Review: Burial Rites

Douglas Grant finds Hannah Kent's debut to be a lyrical blend of fact and fiction

Review: 1913 – The Year Before the Storm

Enyuan Khong examines Florian Illies' account of the world before World War One

Review: Reading Festival 2013

Luke Barratt waves a fond farewell to the festival of his tender youth

Oxford – the Anti-Reading List

Holly Whiston discusses the books that give the wrong impressions
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