Saturday 25th April 2026

Culture

Does ‘Euphoria’ no longer speak to our generation?

Should I have been watching Euphoria’s first season as an innocent, bright-eyed 14-year-old? Probably not. At the time, I thought that the chaotic lives of the characters were what...

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by...

‘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.

‘People are so hungry to create together’: Lisa Ko on going analogue, crafting, and writing the future

It’s 11:02am in New York when Lisa Ko appears on the video call. In Oxford, the sun is almost down.

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

Tuition fees: Here we go again

Jessica Evans depicts students being taken for a ride

Review: OUDS Tour – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The OUDS international tour's first performance takes Matt Roberts to a world of brummy fairies

This son of York won’t leave you discontented

Alec Fullerton adores Ralph Fiennes as the dastardly Richard III

Pokémon Go or Pokémon No? A debate

Is Pokemon Go redeeming society, or destroying it? Is it to be our salvation, or is this the end of days?

Album review: California – blink-182

Daniel Curtis analyses blink-182's hit comeback album.

Books and Lit: What to read this summer

Missing those reading lists? Katie Mennis has five great reads to keep you entertained this summer

Film and TV: A summer preview

Ellie Siora looks to offset the post-term blues through film and TV

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