Sunday 19th 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....
Culture Evelyn Lambert -

‘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.
Culture Hattie Simpson -

‘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.
Books Abigail Lakeland -

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 -
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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

The vinyl revival: just a fad or here to stay?

Sara Semic reviews the year of vinyl and the inventions carrying it into 2015

The Second Coming of D’Angelo

Sara Semic reviews D'Angelo and the Vanguard's fourteen year-long product of love and labour

Review: Ghost Culture – Ghost Culture

Mark Barclay is sucked into Ghost Culture's gloomy and seductive netherworld

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 1

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

Milestones: The Beer Widget

Ollie Johnson examines the beer widget, the solution to a most profound problem (regarding the issue of effectively canning lesser-carbonated hops-based drinks)

"Washing the dust of daily life off our souls"

Fergus Morgan examines the difficulties endemic in attempting to portray genius

Shakespeare on Trial

Colette Lewis interrogates the implications of this collision between stage and courtroom

Preview: West Side Story

Fay Watson checks out Byzantium Productions' upcoming show

Review: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Ben Cooke explores Hilary Mantel's ‘Maggiephobia’ in her latest collection of short stories

Loading the Canon: Gil-Scott Heron

Lily McIlwain calls for the addition of a new writer to the literary establishment

Jonathan Yeo: the controversial yet charming artist

Emma Irving discusses celebrities and surgery with Britain’s leading portrait painter

Review: Foxcatcher

Anthony Maskell witnesses performances of depth and gravitas in Bennett Miller's latest film, Foxcatcher

Review: Birdman

Katharine Stocker enjoys a trimphant - if self-conscious - return from Michael Keaton

Review: The Theory of Everything

Ollie Johnson found that the lacking script left the stunning performances out to dry

Review: the latest exhibition of Egon Schiele

Mark Barclay finds that the work of Schiele has lost none of its shock factor in “Schiele: The Radical Nude”

Review: The Interview

Following the controversy miring The Interview's release, Jennie Han finds Seth Rogen's latest childish and inane

Review: An Evening with The Cure

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews an evening spent watching The Cure at London's Hammersmith Apollo, complete with lipstick, dry ice and spinning tops galore.

Hip-hop rivalry: alive and well at 20

Tom Barrie looks at the history of hip-hop feuding, and its effect of keeping the genre fresh
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