Sunday 31st August 2025

Culture

The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

Returning for their 62nd annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe, the Oxford Revue rolled into town with their new sketch comedy hour For Revue Dollars More, accompanied nightly by...

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,...

Oxford Commas at the Fringe – Interview

The Oxford Commas are a contemporary gender-inclusive a capella group who had their Fringe...

‘Aca-demic Weapons’ at the Fringe: Oxford Commas Review

★★★★☆ A capella groups from Oxford have long been favourites at the Edinburgh Fringe, with...

Anti-celebrity rules OK. Long live Baldwin.

Ollie Johnson examines the hypocrisy of the famous rejecting fame

Milestones: Bowling for Columbine

Fergus Morgan reflects on Michael Moore's seminal examination of America's gun problem

Secrets of Venice

Nathan Stazicker shows us a path less travelled through Venice

Bali’s Beauty

Emma Snashall takes us through the backstreets of Bali in this series of stunning photos

Monumental art: Donatello’s St George

Anna Zanetti highlights one of art’s great masterpieces

Loading the Canon: When God Looked the Other Way

Iweta Kalinowska calls for the addition of Wesley Adamczyk’s personal tale of suffering to the literary establishment

Yvonne Owuor: sometimes people are places too

Paul Ostwald talks to the leading Kenyan writer about her novel 'Dust' and her country’s voice

Review: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Fay Watson reviews this darkly comic David Foster Wallace adaptation

Review: Dido and Aeneas – A St Peter’s success story

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull finds St Peter's College's production of Purcell's Baroque opera a raging success

Where Are They Now?: Blazin’ Squad

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

Review: Meghan Trainor – Title

Lata Nobes is less than impressive by this popstar's debut

Review: Rae Morris – Unguarded

Rachael Griffith gives the seal of approval to Rae Morris's debut album

"Good people, good drinkers and no bigots"

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull talks to Gareth Campesinos!, Los Campesinos!'s frontman

Preview: Dido and Aeneas

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull previews a newly produced student opera

Preview: Music for Madagascar

Felix Klos gives you a taster of what to expect at this Saturday's jazz concert for charity, featuring Dot's Funk Odyssey, The Oxford Gargoyles and The New Men

Review: Potosí

Fergus Morgan is charmed by this innocent, amusing and quintessentially human piece of student writing

Voices from the Past: Virginia Woolf

Cherwell analyses Woolf's views on the power and potential of words in the only recording of her voice

Review: Ex Machina

Anthony Maskell finds novelist Alex Garland's debut to be full of pertinent questions about humans and technology

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 3

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

Milestones: Restoration Comedy

Bethan Roberts reflects on the rise of raunchy theatre following Charles II's return to the throne

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