Wednesday 22nd April 2026

Culture

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by the Merseyside-based violinist Samuel Oliver-Sherry, a current third year music student at St Anne’s College....

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.

‘People are so hungry to create together’: Lisa Ko on going analogue, crafting, and writing the future

It’s 11:02am in New York when Lisa Ko appears on the video call. In Oxford, the sun is almost down.

How 2025’s biggest films made their mark through music

The recent Oscar nominations have allowed us to reflect on how fundamental musical scores are to film, and the highlights of last year’s film soundtracks.

Monumental Art: exhibitions at Modern art Oxford

Ruth Spencer Jolly looks at what's on in Oxford's most avant gard gallery

Coloured squares, black pigs and the art of abstraction

Atalanta Xanthe reviews Richard Diebenkorn's retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy

The Ugly Politics of the Silver Screen

Anthony Maskell discusses the negative portrayal of politicians in film and TV

Unpacking the Bodleian libraries

Fintan Calpin reviews Marks of Genius at the Weston Library

Preview: Living Together

Joanna Connolly takes a look at Trinity’s Playhouse show

Mr Spacey’s finest hour?

Michael Burns reviews Spacey’s take on the legendary Clarence Darrow 

Review: Amber Run

Verity Hubbard finds little to redeem 5AM, Amber Run's debut album

Review: Blur

Kieran Vaghela finds little new in Blur's latest offering, 'Magic Whip'

Live Review: James Bay

Susan Yu is stunned by Bay's live performance

Joni Mitchell: much misunderstood, much revered

Catherine Kelly discusses the musical pioneer that is Joni Mitchell

Review: Sufjan Stevens

Bryony Harris is intrigued by the personal nature of Steven's new album Carrie & Lowell

Review: Cake

Anthony Maskell finds Cake an airy and predictable slice of award bait

Review: Earl Sweatshirt

Kieran Vaghela is impressed, if not surprised, by 'I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside'

Interview: Twin Atlantic

Rachael Griffith talks to Sam McTrusty, lead singer of Twin Atlantic

Photographing a hidden Jamaica

Michael Burns explores a history of the island in pictures

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 1

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

First farce, then tragedy: The Rise of Islamic State

Ben Cooke reviews Patrick Cockburn's timely new work

Milestones: Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses the complex identities that work together to forge Henry Fuseli’s masterpiece of gothic art

Double or nothing: is there truth behind the doppelgänger?

Following one woman’s successful search, Elliot Langley explores the idea throughout history

A view from the cheap seat

The Oxford theatre establishment gets sued...

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