Monday 27th October 2025

Culture

‘A team of criers’: Behind the scenes of ‘Uncle Vanya’

Nothing makes me more excited about a theatre production than hearing a director talk passionately and intelligently about their chosen text. In a conversation with Cherwell, director Joshua Robey’s...

Grappling with ‘grief that’s half formed’: Your Funeral

“Meeting up with a partner so soon after a breakup is an awkward time...

“NOR GLOM OF NIT?”: ‘Going Postal’ reviewed

“NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR...

On Gravel and Quads: Woolf’s Oxbridge in ‘A Room of One’s Own’

Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own is probably the most important...

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

Broadchurch: against a sea of troubles

Tom Barrie reflects on the second wave of drama to hit Broadchurch

Review – Kingsman: The Secret Service

Mark Barclay struggles to decipher Kingsman: The Secret Service

Where are they now: Sam Bailey

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

Review: Bob Dylan – Shadows in the Night

Will Ferris is not wholly impressed by ageing Dylan's take on Frank Sinatra classics

Gerard’s Way of getting things done

Sam Joyce talks comics and new solo LPs with My Chemical Romance's frontman

Review: The Charlatans – Modern Nature

Aidan Clark finds the latest offering from the revered indie-rock band a hopeful channel after the bereavement of drummer Jon Brookes

Review: Nina Kraviz – DJ-Kicks

Freddy Rendall reviews the latest mix from the Siberian DJ making waves with her hypnotic techno

Milestones: Apocalypse Now

Ollie Johnson looks at nature's role in the making of Apocalypse Now

"Oh Charles, what a lot you have to learn!"

Fergus Morgan talks to the acting director of the Oxford Botanic Garden

Review: Blake-inspired LiveFriday at the Ashmolean

Mark Barclay reflects upon his interactive night at the museum

Loading the Canon: W. G. Sebald

Jacob Verter calls for the addition of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn to the literary establishment

Alice Oswald: the modern epic poet to rival Homer

Rose Sykes reflects on the influences and work of the next speaker in Keble’s Meet the Poet series

Review: Plenty

Emma Irving reviews David Hare's play about post-war disenchantment

Preview: Noises Off

Bethan Roberts previews an upcoming metatheatrical comedy

Review: Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

Mark Loughridge reviews the latest incarnation of a classic

Review: The Boss of It All

Anna Zanetti reviews this Lars von Trier adaptation

Preview: Macbeth

Hannah Dewhirst checks out an upcoming production at Regent's Park

Review: Paddington

Anthony Maskell finds the Peruvian bear's first outing on the silver screen to be a huggable affair

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