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Books you can’t sink your teeth into: A brief look into unsolvable manuscripts
If there’s one thing that most people appreciate, it’s a good mystery with a clever solution. It is no accident that Agatha Christie is listed as the Guinness World...
Review: Will Heaven Fall on Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective
Will Heaven Fall on Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective, which aired in cinemas this...
Has the romantic comedy lost its charm?
The romantic comedy genre is often criticised for its overreliance on tropes. The romcom...
Palimpsest
This is a secular city, built on holy bones.
We’re on the edge of another...
2024 was for the girls: The rapid success of female artists
The last nine months of pop can perhaps be summed up in one word:...
Preview: Hyperdrive (Imps)
Matt Roberts is excited for improv and tech
Review: What I learned from Johnny Bevan
Naomi Gee gets political with Luke Wright
Review: Noose
Beckie Rutherford is severely unimpressed by the BT's latest offering
Review: Heavy Petting
Matt Roberts loves it when the Revue pets him heavily
Live Jazz at the Mad Hatter
A JazzSoc evening leaves Sophie Jordan convinced that jazz is still alive
Goodbye Sir Terry
Daniel Minister looks back at the career of the late Sir Terry Wogan
Review: This World Lousy
Ben Ray is unimpressed with a show that lives up to its title
Review: pussyfooting
Lucy Clarke unpicks a show that attempts to perform the performance of gender
Review: RENT
Momina Mukhtar is entranced by this no-holds-barred production
Preview: Thark
Ben Ray is quite literally spirited away by this hilarious 1920s haunted house farce
Is This Art?: Empty Lot
With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Charlie Willis visits an actual art exhibition at an actual art gallery
A story of homecoming
Johnny Patterson looks at Rembrandt’s ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son’
The endurance of the Queen of Crime
Charlie Atkins ponders what it is about Agatha Christie that we still love
Rewind: Peter Blake & Under Milk Wood
Ben Ray examines the psychedelic darkness of Peter Blake’s Under Milk Wood
