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Between beer gardens and picnics: Climate Culture Care at the Ashmolean

When I returned to Oxford this term, just as England teased us with the sixth heat-wave of the year, I found myself at a loose end. With the deadline for two vacation essays still far in the distance, the sun lit up the sign for Soma Surovi Jannat’s Ashmolean Now exhibition, Climate Culture Care.

“What is a good life?”: The Standard of Living in review 

“What is a good life?” This axiological question, asked earnestly in the opening lines of James Graham’s The Standard of Living – playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket until December 12 – is often overlooked by the fractured and hyper-specialised discipline of economics.

Diverse voices: ‘Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah’ by Miljenko Jergović 

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into...

Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...

Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire

A disappointingly bland and confused adaptation of Larsson's superior book.

DVD Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A stylish adaptation that can't quite help losing some of the book's appeal.

Interview: Lola Perrin

The piano world's morning-star charms Cherwell

Review: Salt

Angelina Jolie's new vehicle is preposterous, convoluted and surprisingly entertaining.

Playwriting that pays the bills

An interview with playwright, Rachel Barnett on her new work, The Law of Inertia

Review: Big Chill

Patrick Fleming finds his festival served uncomfortably lukewarm

Interviews: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Cherwell interrogates the stars behind Edgar Wright's latest offering.

Reviews: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Jen and Ben clash over the effectiveness of this comic book brought to life.

Review: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

An abundance of style is no substitute for intelligence or heart.

The real Serge Gainsbourg?

Alex Dudok de Wit watches Joann Sfar's "fairytale" biopic of the French sleazebag icon

Fritzl to hit-zl

Cherwell reviews 'Room', the darkest dark horse in the race for the Booker

Review: The Expendables

A terrible, testosterone-filled fusion of Team America and My Beautiful Laundrette.

Interview: The Expendables

Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren chat about their action-packed film.

Review: Best Coast

Is Matt crazy for new Californian outfit Best Coast? Well, almost.

It’s OK To Cry In Films

Why shedding a tear in the cinema can only be a good thing.

Review: The Master and Margarita

Review of The Master and Margarita, now playing at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Wolfgang Tillmans at the Serpentine Gallery

Chris de Beneducci reviews a retrospective of the controversial German photographer

The Tarantino Conundrum

Ben Kirby examines what happens when good directors go bad.

Top 5: Open Air Cinema Events

The best of this Summer's outdoor cinema venues

Review: Dawkins debunked

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson tries her hand at philosophy

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