Monday 16th June 2025

Culture

What the book you’re reading says about you

In an institution as prestigious as Oxford, every book you pull out in public is transformed into a portable personality test, a hard launch of your favourite academic, and...
Books Aayah Aslam -

Why romance books should be your post-exam read

With finals in full swing, and prelims just around the corner, Oxford’s libraries are...
Books Charlotte Renahan -

Review: Blood Wedding – ‘A lunar eclipse on the stage’

A trembling bride. A distrustful mother. Two murderous rivals vying for a single, wavering...
Theatre Sanaya Narula -

Review – The Wykehamist: ‘A Saltburn for the other place’

In the underbelly of Hong Kong, a Goldsmith-Sachs Vice President invites a woman back...
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Review: Voyage of the Narwhal

Fergus Morgan is tickled pink by this comedy trio

Loading the Canon: Flashman

Cherwell's weekly call for new additions to the literary establishment highlights George MacDonald Frazer's loveable rogue

Beyond amphetamine-fuelled parties and silk screen prints

Joel Nelson encounters a previously unseen side of Andy Warhol and his creative genius

Interview: Martin Brown

Xin Fan meets the Horrible Histories illustrator to reminisce about the iconic children's book series and cartooning past and present

Review: Edge of Tomorrow

Tom Barrie is impressed by Tom Cruise's new action-adventure escapade

The cinema of Kelly Reichardt

Matthew Main on the champion of American Indie Cinema

The absence of light: American TV in its post-Golden Age

Sophia Lambton looks at how American television is taking itself too seriously at the expense of its sense of humour

Where are they now: Steps

It was a feeble attempt at a Christmas comeback that put the last nail in the coffin for this 00s pop band

Review: Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain

Thomas Barrie reviews the latest release by folk artist Conor Oberst

Review: The Roots – …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin

The 16th Century meets 50s doowop in The Roots latest release

Review: Seahawks – Paradise Freaks

Rushabh Haria is a fan of this 'psychedelic yacht rock'

Review: The Two Faces of January

Hussein Amini’s directorial debut is a captivatingly magnetic thriller, with three brilliantly engaging lead performances

Interview: Wolf Alice

Helen Thomas talks to Wolf Alice about their upcoming EP, and their evolving sound

A Journey to the Heart of Darkness

Arizona, Nevada, California & Utah, USA

Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Exciting and with a stellar cast, the newest X-Men is only let down by its contrived ending

Where have all the monsters gone?

Ollie Johnson tells us why less is more when it comes to monster movies

Milestones: Isaac Levitan

Naomi Polonsky examines the influential Russian landscape artist

Top 3… Climbs

Luke Barratt rounds up the greatest ascents in culture

Green and pleasant lands

Anna Zanetti looks at changing artistic attitudes to landscape

Review: Vico

Naomi Polonsky is entertained and disturbed by this student-written play about insanity
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