Wednesday 3rd 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...

‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

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

The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

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

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,...

Oscar Predictions – 2015

Which films will win big on Oscar night, and which films ought to? Toby Scadding airs his views

Review: Selma

Clara-Læïla Laudette finds Selma to be a powerful and politically motivating film

Review: Jupiter Ascending

Emmanuelle Soffe saw Jupiter Ascending as a film that failed to take off

Review: OUDS New Writing Festival

Bethan Roberts reviews four plays by upcoming writers

Preview: King Lear

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull sees promise in this production

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 6

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

Milestones: landmark gay moments on TV

Cherwell picks out key moments in cultural history. This week, Ollie Johnson charts some of the landmark gay moments in TV

It’s time to say bi to the straight and narrow

Bethan Roberts scrutinises the presentation of bisexuality on television

We should stop fetishising independent bookstores

Lily McIlwain’s tour of Oxford’s bookshops raises some questions concerning student ‘support’

Oxford International Art Fair

Mark Barclay is seriously unimpressed with both paintings and prices

Loading the Canon: Ian Hamilton

Ben Cooke calls for the addition of poet and critic Ian Hamilton to the literary establishment

Where are they now: Toni Basil

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

Wolf Alice: From Carter’s cover to album cover

Sara Semic chats to Theo Ellis from Wolf Alice about touring with Alt-J and making their debut album

Review: Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late

Giles Norris sees Drake's latest surprise project as more of a transitional piece, sealing the star's escape from his label

Review: Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear

Aidan Clark is impressed by the lyricism of the Fleet Foxes' John Tillman and his expansive chamber pop sound

Review: Peace – Happy People

Peace's latest endeavour receives lukewarm reception from Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull

Interview: Paul Mayhew-Archer

Tom Barrie talks to the Vicar of Dibley co-creator about sexism in the TV industry, Richard Curtis and self-immolation

Voices from the Past: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Listen to the only surviving recording of the Victorian master and Poet Laureate

Preview: Constellations – a rehearsed reading

Fergus Morgan previews this reading of Nick Payne's idiosyncratic love story

Super Fatigue! The homogenisation of superhero movies

Joseph O'Neil wonders how much longer studios can milk the cash cow that the superhero genre has become

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