Thursday 19th March 2026

Culture

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.
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How 2025’s biggest films made their mark through music

The recent Oscar nominations have allowed us to reflect on how fundamental musical scores are to film, and the highlights of last year’s film soundtracks.
Culture Ruaridh McEwen -

Translating Oxford into Urdu

It’s a different emotion whenever I read the Urdu language. I’m not a native speaker, nor have I actively pursued learning the language, but as someone who finds solace in reading shayari (Urdu poetry), I wanted to follow it even in Oxford.
Books Manya Singh -

Stitching the world together: GFC’s London Fashion Week show

A few weeks ago we, the Cherwell fashion editors, were lucky enough to be extended an invite by the Global Fashion Collective to their London Fashion Week show.
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Surya Bowyer is frustrated by a powerful production of 'Suspiria' which comes so close to greatness

Anything but a simple fairy-tale

Ebere Nweze is impressed by this unnerving and sharp new adaptation of Wilde’s short story

Zoom In: How to steal our jobs as Film and TV editors

Shivani Ananth and Katie Sayer tell you how to take over their legacy

Moonlight: a transcendent spectacle

Jonnie Barrow delights in Barry Jenkins' mesmeric exploration of identity

Single of the Week: Calvin Harris’ ‘Slide’

Natalia Bus basks in the DJ producer's sunny new collaboration

Coldplay: ‘Something Just Like Piss’

Will Cowie carefully pulls apart the new Coldplay single

Home is where the art is: Yu Hong

Queenie Li explores Chinese feminist Yu Hong’s artwork

Facing walls

Art by Mark de Courcy Ling following Cherwell's portrait photography competition

Spotlight: Yellow Days

Natalia Bus takes a look at new music

Edwin Hubble: Oxford lawyer (almost)

Richard Birch discusses the University days of the Oxford lawyer turned revolutionary physicist

“Young, classy and capable of mischief”

Jacob Greenhouse is impressed by the freshness of Consortium Novum’s production of The Marriage of Figaro

A word from the stalls

Miriam Nemmaoui chats to an audience member who is left feeling nostalgic by Anna Karenina

Single of the week: Lana Del Rey’s ‘Love’

Natalia Bus chooses the baroque singer-songwriter's latest effort as her single of the week

The female artist: speaking truth to power

Tilly Nevin asks why the art world often seems to overlook an entire gender

“An enormous array of talent on display”

Jonnie Barrow enjoys a bumpy ride through a musical twist on a classic

‘We’re going to do it better than Braveheart’

If your schooling was anything like Tom Fisher's, who is playing Ross in this new production of Macbeth, you studied the Scottish play in...

Between the World and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Altair Brandon-Salmon on an autobiographical look at American racism

Underground and boxed inside

Will Cowie on Boxed In’s concert at Village Underground

OxFolk reviews: ‘March Glas’ by Elfen

Ben Ray is entranced by Elfen's debut release, giving a small insight into the joys of the Welsh folk music scene

89th Academy Awards: Predictions

Oliver Barlow and Jonnie Barrow speculate which films will win big at the Oscars
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