Friday 13th June 2025

Culture

The cantatas of Bach with New Chamber Opera

Recently, students from the University of Oxford have blessed the city with several performances of cantatas by the great Johann Sebastian Bach. On Wednesday 7th May, the Orchestra of...

Review: Crocodile Tears – ‘Techno-futuristic, but why?’

There is a lot to like about Natascha Norton’s Crocodile Tears. Female lead Elektra...

Review: ART – ‘Charm, jazz, and friendship at its wittiest’

ART is charming. Centred around long-time friends Yvan (Ronav Jain), Marcus (Rufus Shutter) and...

The Journal of a Chambermaid: The greatest novel you’ve never heard of

It is easy to suppose that the greatest authors of the 19th century have...

William Shakespeare and the year of Lear

Timothy Wade finds James Shapiro overestimates the Bard

Is This Art? The X Factor

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Charlie Willis strays into the realms of performance art and takes on the X factor

Profile: Katie Hopkins

Akshay Bilolikar discusses Oxford, offensiveness and the Oscars with Katie Hopkins

Rewind: Ezra Pound

Bex Watson rewinds to Ezra Pound and is a tad guilty for liking him so much

Culture Corner: The Lobster

Rachael Kitson enjoys the squeaky clean cuteness of forbidden love

Slang: social ill or work of art?

Sarah Lynch scours away our inhibitions about the underside of language.

The Farm and the Container Store

Lael Hines invokes Christmas trees, containers and metal rods to create an alternative short story

A disturbing hymn for your weekend

Simran Uppal on the connotations of Coldplay's new music video

No matter the venue,“I just like to play”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to folk singer Ryley Walker

Curating Oxford’s best musicians

The founders of Vulture Sessions discuss their plans for the future with Sophie Jordan

Review: Public Memory — Wuthering Drum

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is seduced by Public Memory's gritty electronica album

An odorous tone of graveness

Surya Bowyer has some qualms about the O'Reilly's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Review: The Fusion Project

Nihaar Shah is impressed by the virtuosity and skill of The Fusion Project

Interview: Amadeus

Alec Fullerton speaks to Lata Nobes, Artistic Director of Amadeus

Review: Constellations

Ellie Siora reflects on two actors and an infinity of loves

My Life on the Road

Sarah Lynch reviews Gloria Steinem’s new book

Picasso: Formalistic or Contextual?

Emmanuelle Soffe explores Picasso’s ‘Massacre in Korea’ with a formalist eye

Is This Art? Plate Convergences

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Anna Zanetti analyses the work of Theaster Gates

Review: Thark

Ben Ray is captivated by this innovative take on a little known 1920s farce

Profile: David Hasselhoff

Bex Watson discusses singing, slip-ups and salmon carbonara with David Hasselhoff

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