Monday 1st September 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...

Review: The Zone of Interest

Martin Amis' latest novel is seriously funny

Review: Ai Weiwei’s latest innovative exhibition

A juxtaposition of the old and the new at Blenheim Palace

Review: Henry V – A Promenade Production

Bethan Roberts tours Worcester Gardens, managing to catch an ambitious production of Shakespeare's war epic

Preview: Orlando

Kate Tuohy observes the rehearsals of this innovative Woolf adaptation, which arrives at Keble's O'Reilly in Sixth Week

Dream girls don’t exist

Tom Barrie looks at a character type that has come to haunt rom-coms

Review: Interstellar

Sam Joyce finds Christopher Nolan's latest film ambitious, if unfulfilling

Preview: Monkey Bars

Katherine Cowles previews the upcoming production of Chris Goode's Monkey Bars, which puts the words of children in the mouths of adults.

Review: His Dark Materials Part 1

This adaptation of Philip Pullman's fantasy novels is a valiant attempt at a difficult task, says Lata Nobes

Review: Celestial Shore — Enter Ghost

Lata Nobes argues that Celestial Shore are trying to be too clever

Preview: Henry V

Fergus Morgan previews this upcoming promenade production

Review: Jerusalem

Bethan Roberts gives her verdict on a production of Jez Butterworth's masterpiece

Review: Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste

Sam Joyce is pleasantly surprised by Azealia Banks' debut album

Review: The Overnighters

Tom Graham found The Overnighters a compelling portrait of contemporary America

Review: Mr Turner

Joe Holt finds Mike Leigh's biopic of J. M. W. Turner a compelling watch

Review: Nightcrawler

Joel Casey is impressed with a moody Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler

Where Are They Now: Los Del Rio

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

Picks of the Week MT14 Wk4

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

Interview: Neil Cowley

Stephen Bradshaw talks jazz-rock hybrids with pianist Neil Cowley

Review: Simple Minds – Big Music

Kayleigh Tompkins is let down by the 'lacklustre' new record from Simple Minds

Milestones: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Bethan Roberts ponders the significance of the famous obscenity trial

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