Thursday 11th September 2025

Culture

Animal History: Reviewed

If an older adult has ever raised their eyebrow at your vegetarianism, then I might just have the book for you. They might be interested in knowing that even...

Hertford Archaeology Open Day: Medieval Oxford laid bare

You may have spent the last year wondering what has been going on amongst...

The Blue Trail: review

★★★★☆ The Blue Trail (O Último Azul), this year’s winner of the Berlin International Film...

Review: Sketches from a Curious Mind

In 1962, Edward Anthony wrote: “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a...

Review: A Little Chaos

Emmanuelle Soffe finds A Little Chaos a predictable period drama

Where cannes we go from here?

Sam Joyce explains why the currently ongoing Cannes Film Festival is suffering from an identity crisis

Review: Living Together

Mark Barclay and Paul Ostwald experience this complex family saga

The wisdom of Rufus Norris

Francesca Nicholls gets some career advice from a pro

Monumental Art: Twin

Dominic Hand looks at Robert Ryman's masterpiece of subtlety

Primo Levi: A life broken down to its elements

Jessica Poole discusses the importance of the Holocaust survivor's memoir, The Periodic Table

A dark and memorable Fairytale

Catherine Kelly reviews Murakami’s latest novella, The Strange Library

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 4

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Claude Cahun

Imogen Lester discusses the early work of the Surrealist chameleon Claude Cahun, who revelled in the art of reinvention and refused to submit to convention

Mexico’s changing faces: the surrealist work of the 40s

Morgan Harries explores the ever-changing artworks produced by a country in search of itself

Early English opera: the failed metamorphosis

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull questions why England never had an operatic renaissance

Review: Revolution – The St Anne’s Musical Revue

Joseph Evans finds St Anne's latest musical offering to be a generally entertaining evening - choreography aside

Live Review: Turbowolf

Joe Manktelow thinks Turbowolf will go on to bigger and better things, having enjoyed their live performance at the Bullingdon Arms

Review: Passion Pit – Kindred

Tom Waterhouse is impressed by Passion Pit's latest offering

5 songs to get you through an all-nighter for an essay

Rachael Griffith takes you through the ultimate essay crisis playlist

Interview: Bipolar Sunshine

Rachael Griffith chats with the proud Mancunian Bipolar Sunshine

Preview: Beachcombing

Mark Barclay takes a look at this meditative new play from a rising star of the Oxford drama scene

Preview: Killing Hitler

Oxford Graduates and the July Plot to assassinate Hitler

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 3

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Louis Le Prince and the earliest films

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses early documentary films and the work of the world's first true film-maker, Louis Le Prince (1841-90)

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