Culture
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:...
Review: City and Colour – If I Should Go Before You
Flora Henderson tells you why listening to City and Colour's latest album isn't just Killing Time.
Review: Real Lies – Real Life
Jackson Whitton lays eyes on Real Lies' Real Life
Why so serious?
The overriding trend of modern television is the decline of seriously funny US drama
All Sound and no Fury?
Lawrence Warner has mixed feelings about Justin Kurzel's Macbeth
Preview: Singin in the Rain
The eponymous downpour won't dampen Richard Birch's hopes for a great production
A Day In the Life
From essay crises to predrinks, Cherwell’s got you covered
Does the music move you, or does the music ‘move’?
Jake Downs explains the psychology of musical motion — every raver’s best friend.
Interview: Jack Savoretti
Bryony Harris chats to the folksy singer-songwriter.
Live Review: The Smyths
Andrew Dickinson reviews the cover band's recent Oxford show
Strangers: Just friends you haven’t met yet
Lonely freshers should take solace in the films of Coppola and Linklater
Milestones: Paris
This week, Fintan Calpin discusses Klapisch’s Paris, the zenith of cinematic homages to the French capital
Profile: Ingrid Betancourt
Mark Barclay explores the life of the Colombian politician
Ingrid Betancourt
Visions of Ooo: strange reflections of earth
Henry Bruce-Jones on Adevnture Time and how he learned to stop worrying and love nuclear fallout
Ruffian on the Stair
Mark Barclay is amused and appalled. Which is the right response?
