Culture
The rise of genre fluidity: Is this the death of genre as we know it?
My favourite genre of music: a question I’ve found becoming increasingly difficult to answer over the years, and it’s only now that I’m discovering why. Whilst we may not...
Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu
"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."
Review: ‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States, and the Middle East 1979-2003’ by Steve Coll
Tyrants should only be brought down by their own people; they become martyrs when brought down by foreigners.
Self-Portrait of a Stranger: A Review of Frank Auerbach’s Charcoal Portraits
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition, The Charcoal Heads, shows the early career of Frank Auerbach...
American prospects?
Mark Greif, co-editor of cutting-edge literary journal n+1, talks about diverging intellectual spheres and the role of the intellectual in today's society
Anyone for T?
William Kelleher talks to Toddla T at Fuse Night
4.48 Psychosis
An Expressionist take on Sarah Kane's last play misses the point
Serving It Up
Sarah Nerger was impressed by a performance of a student-written play
Taking Control
Cherwell examines the role of the director
Don Carlos
We weigh in on the upcoming adaptation of the Friedrich von Schiller classic
Liberal Facism
Jonah Goldberg's new book Liberal Facism sounds like it ought to be an interesting, though not entirely revolutionary, proposition
Odds and Sods and Death and Dogs
Paul Freestone's tender and humorous photographs find beauty in the mundane and subtly blur the boundaries between the human and the natural
Doubt
John Patrick Shanley's film adaptation of Doubt arguably equals, and quite possibly surpasses, the play upon which it is based
Black Comedy
This production of Black Comedy illuminates Shaffer's script
The Entertainer
John Osborne's historic follow-up to ‘Look Back In Anger' charts the life of Archie Rice, son of smash-hit music hall comedian Billy Rice
Stryding to success
Joseph Weir discovers the story of a DIY label and Tinchy Stryder's rise to stardom
Behind the Scenes: The Line-Producer
In the second edition of Behind the Scenes, Andrew Litvin tells us something about line-production
These Dark Materials
An adaptation of His Dark Materials hits Oxford next term, and Cherwell went backstage to see it being created.
