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...
Books Lara Machado -

Hertford Archaeology Open Day: Medieval Oxford laid bare

You may have spent the last year wondering what has been going on amongst...
Art Antonia Rogers -

The Blue Trail: review

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

Review: Sketches from a Curious Mind

In 1962, Edward Anthony wrote: “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a...
Books Hannah Becker -
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Collective Voice: the rise of the radio documentary

Beatrice Liese examines the ongoing difficulties and successes of the personal radio story and podcast

Simon Elmes: documentary and the art of story-telling

Elliot Langley talks to the former Creative Director of the BBC's Radio Documentary Unit

The poet as performer

Ben Cooke discusses sound and senselessness in the verse of James Fenton

Christian Richter: unearthing a past of architectural genius

Millie McLuskie talks to the photographer about imaging the abandoned and the ephemeral

The genius of Mad Men

Toby Scadding casts a retrosepctive glance over Mad Men's past seven seasons, locating the show amongst the pantheon of television classics

Monumental Art: Fine detailed portrait of Homer Simpson

Fintan Calpin on the genius of Chris (Simpsons Artist)

The Dark Side of the Picket Fence

Anthony Maskell explores the depths of filmmakers’ obsession with suburban darkness

Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron

Alec Badenoch finds the latest Avengers installment to be enjoyable but perfunctionary

In Defence of: Cloud Atlas

Anthony Maskell celebrates the Wachowskis' sprawling cross-genre multi-narrative epic

A view from the cheap seat

Lauren Jackson finds a long lost diary...

Preview: The Mercy of Titus

Paul Ostwald discovers the dark side of Mozart's Opera

Preview: Cut the Mustard

Lata Nobes is serenaded at a preview of Revue duo’s madcap offering

Preview: I Nominate

Staging virtual reality

Death Is A Terrible Curse And There Is No Getting Around It

5 Songs to help you forget that you will die one day

Preview: Creditors

How to untangle Strindberg

Comedy Tonight

Bethan Roberts meets the team behind College Comedy Nights

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 2

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

Milestones: Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Voice’ (1912)

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses Thomas Hardy's poetic masterpiece of love, loss and guilt

Still singing the Blues: Billie Holiday 100 years on

Catherine Kelly discusses the life, legacy and enduring popularity of the first lady of jazz

In Defence of: Romeo + Juliet

Xavier Greenwood defends Baz Lurhmann's hyperactive adaption of the Shakespearean classic
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