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‘Burning Down the House’: A review 

During the odd ‘in-between’ space that is Week 0, I searched for a show to give me something to do, amid the random dilly-dallying and the odd collection currently occupying my time.
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Why ‘No Bad Memories’ is my album of the year

I didn't expect how perfectly my personal happiness would fit an album so preoccupied with the sounds of old advertisements and obsolete electronics, filled with the relentless optimism of a world that believed the future could only get better. 
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CUSP’s Dan Stock on the memories behind ‘English Country’

On Friday, CUSP, a Milton Keynes-based indie rock band, released their debut album, English...
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A jarring Mann: ‘Fatherland’ (2026) in review

'Fatherland', which recounts celebrated Modernist author Thomas Mann’s return to a Germany in wreck and rubble, deals with great personal malaise against a backdrop of great political unease.
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Aspects of Culture: Online Culture

Megan Birch contributes to our new (semi) regular feature, examining what culture means to different groups of the student population.

Another glorious endeavour

An interview with Shaun Evans about Endeavour, acting and potentially playing Doctor Who

Spotlight on…Life is a Dream

Helen Reid shines a light behind the scenes of a drama troupe

Changing the Face of Autism

A look at the campaign challenging the practice of casting non-disabled actors in disabled roles

Behind the Woman in Black

'Is it actually scary?'

Review: ‘Magda’ by Meike Ziervogel

Sadie Levy Gale is impressed by Ziervogel's harrowing depiction of corrosive mother-daughter relationships in Nazi Germany

Man Ray Packs Sting

Kezia St. Clare Smithe enjoys the 'meticulous and subtle' portraits in the Man Ray exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

On Hilary’s Own Terms

Sadie Levy Gale talks about university life and writing with the two time Booker winner

Review: V.A. – Spring Breakers OST

William Dickson reviews the music used in this recent hit

Review: Phoenix – Bankrupt!

Jack Chown finds Phoenix's long-awaited new album to be a good listen

Pompeii and Circumstance

Alexander Reut-Hobbs takes a look at the British Museum's latest exhibition.

Interview: Dog Is Dead

Luke Barratt talks pop and partying with Trev from Dog Is Dead

A Touch of Frost and a little Nixon

Ksenia Harwood and Katie Ebner-Landy look forward to Frost/Nixon by looking back to Nixon at the Union

Review: The Ice Cream Girls

Despite some strong performances, Veronica Heney finds this adaptation doesn't do justice to the drama of the novel

Review: Scott and Bailey

Georgina Pollard welcomes the return of Manchester's finest crime-fighting duo

Hacked Off?

The latest cinema event from Hacked Off Films promises 'an evening of immersive psycho-sexual horror'

Media use detrimental to grades

New research shows that texting and browsing the internet have been linked to lower grades at university

Review: Endeavour

Spire-porn at its best? Oxford is the real star of this Morse prequel, writes Tess Colley

Sounds of Summer!

With trinity term rapidly approaching Cherwell music look at tracks with a particularly summery flavour....

Review: Game of Thrones

Sarah Fan finds that season three of this epic fantasy drama gets off to a disappointing start
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