Sunday 15th March 2026

Culture

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.
Culture Ruaridh McEwen -

Translating Oxford into Urdu

It’s a different emotion whenever I read the Urdu language. I’m not a native speaker, nor have I actively pursued learning the language, but as someone who finds solace in reading shayari (Urdu poetry), I wanted to follow it even in Oxford.
Books Manya Singh -

Stitching the world together: GFC’s London Fashion Week show

A few weeks ago we, the Cherwell fashion editors, were lucky enough to be extended an invite by the Global Fashion Collective to their London Fashion Week show.
Culture Cherwell Fashion -

Seeped in nostalgia: ‘Things I Know To Be True’ reviewed

Lighthouse Productions' 'Things I Know to Be True' had high expectations to meet. Put frankly, they nailed it.
Culture Charlie Bailey -
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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

From funny to f*cked: is the British sitcom dead?

Jamie Tahsin examines the failing health of this formerly great genre

Freakshow Television

Eve Beere argues that our fascination with voyeuristic TV about others' bodies stems from our sense of superiority to them
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