Thursday 4th September 2025

Culture

Night School: Oxford’s after-hours curriculum

The first time I saw Nahom and Ethan, it wasn’t on a night out – it was an early morning. I was shuffling through the half-awake crowd when my...
Culture Maya Rybin -

‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ If there is one word to describe Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur, it is...
Culture Peter Hardisty -

The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ Returning for their 62nd annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe, the Oxford Revue rolled...
Culture Leon Moorhouse -

Academia is hell, literally: R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’

R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis touches on a range of near-universal academic experiences: impostor syndrome; frantic,...
Books Charlie Stevens -
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Review: Fifty Shades of Grey

Anthony Maskell finds Fifty Shades of Grey a painfully punishing experience

Review: Inherent Vice

Absurd brilliance pervades Inherent Vice

Where are they now: O-Zone

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to...

Moon King: mooning the music industry

Sara Semic chats to Moon King’s Daniel Benjamin about dream-pop and Boiler Room sessions

Review: Ibeyi – Ibeyi

Clara-Laeïla Laudette is taken in by the French-Cuban twins' Yoruba-inspired debut album

Review: Carl Bar̢t and The Jackals РLet It Reign

Aidan Clark is unimpressed by The Libertines co-frontman's solo endeavours

Review: José González – Vestiges & Claws

Rachael Griffith is swayed by the soothing melodies of Swedish folk singer José González

Confessions of a metalhead

Colette Lewis bemoans the prejudice against heavy metal music and its fans

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 7

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

Milestones: Football and Music

Tom Barrie examines the fruitful marriage of football and music

Interview: Nick Jonas

Nick Jonas talks to Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull about his childhood and life in the media spotlight

Monumental Art: Seven Works of Mercy

Anna Zanetti discusses Caravaggio in the latest installment of our series

Loading the Canon: Barbara Pym

Lily McIlwain calls for the addition of Barbara Pym to the literary establishment

Death of a Playwright: Arthur Miller remembered

10 years on, Emma Irving looks back at the work of one of the Twentieth Century’s greatest writers

Review: The Duchess of Malfi

Zara Brownless enjoys this modernised version of the Renaissance tragedy

Review: King Lear

Mark Barclay reviews this original, cinematic reinvention of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies

Voices from the Past: Sylvia Plath

Hear Plath reading her own poetic account of her tortured relationship with her father

Review: Captain Amazing

Anna Zanetti reviews this one man show at the BT Studio

Preview: Blood Wedding

Lata Nobes gets a sneak peak at the new adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding

The Author: The Atrocity Exhibition

Michael Roderick discusses the rehearsed reading of The Author, part of the OUDS New Writing Festival
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