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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Preview: Richard Parker

Christian Amos gets an inside look at this exciting new play

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Aimee Kwan is spellbound by Into the Woods’ big-screen adaptation

Review: Testament of Youth

Naomi Morris Omori appreciates Testament of Youth’s searing poignancy

John Williams’ Stoner: ahead of its time

50 years on, Rose Sykes asks why this book was forgotten

Rembrandt: The late works at the National Gallery

Mark Barclay feels that the paintings of the Dutch master strike a powerful chord

New term, new Audrey

Bethan Roberts checks out this term's first comedic offering

Barbarism begins: Meat is Murder at thirty

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull looks back at a classic album from The Smiths

Preview: The Dumb Waiter

Fay Watson gets the low-down on this production of a Harold Pinter classic

Review: Belle and Sebastian-Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull finds himself underwhelmed by two-thirds of the band's ninth album

Review: Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

Aidan Clark reviews the latest album from the experimental musician and co-founding member of Animal Collective

Review: Death Grips – Fashion Week

Henry Bruce-Jones reviews the latest surprise offering from the supposedly no longer together experimental hip hop group

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 2

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

Milestones: Edward Bond’s Saved

Fergus Morgan examines the monstrosity of violence in Edward Bond's controversial work

Frankenstein, Godzilla and now Norman Foster

Ollie Johnson decries the monstrous state of our modern city skylines

Where are they now: Nizlopi

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

Shades of the Savannah

Rachael Griffith plays with the Malawian, Zambian and Kenyan sunshine in this collection of vivid photos

Preview: The Oxford Revue’s Audrey

Stage asks The Revue about what to expect from their Audrey's this term.

Voices from the Past: Robert Browning

In the first of an online serial, Cherwell Arts and Books discusses the only known recording of Browning's voice

Review: LÃ¥psley – Understudy EP

Kieran Vaghela is impressed by the eighteen year-old singer-songwriter's understated yet powerful sound

2014: the year in film

An overview of the highs and lows of cinema in 2014
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