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Why does everyone like East of Eden so much?

Spoilers Ahead!! East of Eden is a special book in many ways. It is beautiful, for one, and loving too. John Steinbeck dedicated it to his editor and long-term friend...

The return of the surreal 

Mythical, dreamlike, phantasmagorical, and absurd: Surrealism, which took the art world by storm in...

Must theatre be so dire? Thoughts on the “unworthy scaffold”

If 'art est celare artem' (true art is to conceal art), then theatre is pretty poor art. You ain't fooling me into thinking that's a storm.

Seasonal reads: On childhood hobbies, growing up, and guilt

Reconnecting with reading is something many people tend to do on a summer holiday,...

Review: Mansfield Open Mic Night

Josephine Sarchet heads with an open mind to Mansfield's open mic

Embrace your naked ambition

Rachel Coombes on how to get involved in Oxford’s art scene

Review: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West

Joseph Lloyd understands Kanye West's vocals to be saying 'I was the abomination of Obama's nation'

The hype being heaped on Imogen Heap

Matthew Shribman talks to singer, songwriter, composer, conductor, filmmaker and earth-lover Imogen Heap

Review: Destabilise by Enter Shikari

Oliver Moody enters Shikari

The New Hollywood?

Olivia Hanson gives a first-hand view of Bollywood in India.

Cherwell photo blog – 5th Week (blues)

Beat the blues by checking out our incredible photo blog...

Armistice Day Blues

A review of the O'Reilly's 5th week show, Journey's End

Two people without a story?

William Hooper applauds everything about the BT’s latest new writing show ‘Just Two People’ - everything, that is, except the script

Hit me baby one more time

Oliver Moody is stupefied by a brilliant production of ‘Taking Care of Baby’

Let me out

Jane Brik-Nimby is bored by a pointless remake of a Swedish classic

Another year, another classic

Ben Kirby reviews Mike Leigh's new movie, Another Year, and is almost stunned into silence by the shock of the ordinary

If you can’t Beat them, join them

The birth of a generation: Jamie Randall introduces the rhyme and grime of the legendary post-war group of beat poets

The great American grovel

As the midterm elections reveal a crisis of confidence in the US, Cherwell Books looks at the REM cycles of the American dream

Review: Small Craft On A Milk Sea – Brian Eno

‘Each track evokes a shifting cinematic landscape’, says Alex Dudok de Wit

Back on track with Annie Mac

Evie Deavall discusses Britain’s sound of 2010 with the biggest Mac this side of fast food stores

Interview: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Claire Castles has a plucking good chat with the world's most famous Ukulele players

Online Review: Carthaginians

Henry Whorwood is mightily impressed by a drama based around the Bloody Sunday massacre

Cherwell photo blog – Fourth Week

Some more photographic treats from MT10!

Browned Off

We sent some of our photographers to the Browne review protest on Thursday. Here are the results...

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