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Sunday 18th October 2026
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Why does everyone like East of Eden so much?
A beautiful book, written in a determinedly readable style, is bound to become popular, not to mention the endless power of nostalgia.
Books
Abigail Riley
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The return of the surreal
Mythical, dreamlike, phantasmagorical, and absurd: Surrealism, which took the art world by storm in...
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Sylvie Quick
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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.
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Saul Grenfell
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Seasonal reads: On childhood hobbies, growing up, and guilt
Reconnecting with reading is something many people tend to do on a summer holiday,...
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Elizabeth Gammaidoni
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Online review: Micmacs
Enjoyable film with a couple of incongruous scenes
Oxford Union Ball: From Russia with Love
Last Friday's James Bond themed Union Ball was double 0 Heaven...
Oxford University Orchestra (Benjamin Wallfisch)
Our classical music reviwer was impressed at the Sheldonian Theatre on 19th February
Photo Blog: Part VI
A sideways glance at life in Oxford...
Moments snatched in a life of touch and go
James Wright follows Jan Morris' new book 'Contact!' across a whole lifetime and half the known world
Landy’s ‘Art Bin’. Trash or Treat?
Sam Pilgrim ponders whether chucking away works of art can genuinely be considered, erm, art
Review: IMPerium
Elizabeth Biggs finds the Imps far from imperious
Review: Three Sisters
Perhaps take a rain check(ov)
Review: Samson Agonistes
Atmospheric surroundings pardon the flaws in this production
Review: Heligoland
Worth waiting seven years for? Probably, says Jane-Marie Saldanha
Review: ‘To The Rest of the World’ by Trail
James Andrewes is largley unimpressed by this unoriginal effort
15 years since
In our regular column, we take a look at the impact of Maxinquaye by Tricky
In praise of Evensong
James Maloney examines one of Oxford's great musical institutions
Ayck-born for the stage
Olivia Hanson talks to the playwright about his life's "fortunate series of events"
Haiti benefit concert: watch online from 20th February onwards
Berliner Philharmoniker (Sir Simon Rattle/Mitsuko Uchida)
Courtney Love speaks at the Union
The controversial Courtney Love talks depression, commericalism and dealing with life after Cobain
First Night Review: The Invention of Love
An ambitious but flawed production.
First Night Review: Blithe Spirit
Rozina Bashir on the first night of Coward's supernatural farce
Win tickets to see Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s MICMACS
A unique opportunity for Cherwell readers
Review: The Lovely Bones
Sophie Adelman picks over the bones of a lacklustre adaptation
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