Friday 15th August 2025

Culture

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine, Melbourne, rocks up to London in 1980, writes 'wear makeup everyday' on his New Year's...

St Anne’s goes All-Steinway: A purposeful and bold commitment to music

In a move that lives up to its motto of ‘Consulto et Audacter’ (purposefully...

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much...

Reading Oxford books in Oxford

For those who have not even set foot in Oxford, the city still lives...

Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Julieta’

Priya Khaira-Hanks applauds Almodóvar’s depiction of human complexity in his recent film Julieta

Review: War Dogs

Thomas Player gives credit to the secret complexity of War Dogs, but questions if it was a little bit too subtle.

Woody Allen’s Café Society: a satirical love letter to film

Ellie Siora reviews Allen's latest, and maybe last, film and its success as a social comment

Review: Treasure Neverland – Real and Imaginary Pirates

Ben Ray sets sail to find his ideal desert island book

Book review: The University of Oxford, a History

Ben Ray digs into this herculean history of the university, undertaken by Magdalen's own Professor Brockliss

Five picks for your four final days at the Fringe

Ellie Siora is here to make sure you get the most out of the scant few days left at the Fringe

Review: Foxtrot at the Edinburgh Fringe

Peter Thickett is drawn into a complex reflection on the dehumanisation of missing women at the Fringe

Jonathan Evans: the Poké-MAN

Forget the Olympics. Last week, Oxford's own Jonathan Evans competed in the World Pokemon Finals. This is his story...

Poetry: One Hundred Red Kites

In verse, Harry Smith examines memory and sensation

Review: ‘Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh’; Scottish National Gallery

Altair Brandon-Salmon is left mildly underwhelmed by the Scottish National Gallery's Impressionist exhibition

Festivals: F stands for film – Adam Green’s Aladdin at Latitude

A month in retrospect, Josh Mascord reflects on the success of screening films at culture-showcase festivals

The apex of abstraction at Tate Britain

Anietie Ekanem is impressed by the thoughtfulness of 'Conceptual Art in Britain 1964 - 1979'

Review: Circleville, Circlevalley

Ellie Siora reflects on an Edinburgh show packed full of childlike energy

Preview: Canon Warriors

Matt Roberts looks forward to hand puppets and feminism at the fringe

Thoughts on Fleabag

Natasha Burton sings the praises of new BBC3's 'Fleabag' as a simultaneously pertinent and contemporarily prevalent show.

Review: XX (kiss kiss)

Aidan Balfe is enthralled by the innovation of the algorithmic play about love

Review: Pussyfooting

Richard Birch is deeply impressed by an OUDS national tour confronting gender and its norms

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – OUDS Summer Tour

Mark Barclay loses himself in the OUDS Summer Tour production in London

Is the emergence of festival chic synonymous with the descent into festival faux?

Jemma Silvert explores how on-screen commercial portrayal of the festival effects festival culture, aside from just being a product of it.

Cherwell Summer Picks: A Little Bit More Than Five Unmissable Albums

Ted Mair has five and a half ways to make your life better as he lists his top albums for this summer

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