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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:...
Don’t Mind The Gap
Henner Petin encounters poetry and its translational trap
Review: Beachcombing
Mark Barclay is entranced by this reflective studio play
In Defence Of: Jennifer’s Body
Sam Joyce defends Megan Fox's quasi-feminist horror-comedy
Review: A Little Chaos
Emmanuelle Soffe finds A Little Chaos a predictable period drama
Where cannes we go from here?
Sam Joyce explains why the currently ongoing Cannes Film Festival is suffering from an identity crisis
Review: Living Together
Mark Barclay and Paul Ostwald experience this complex family saga
The wisdom of Rufus Norris
Francesca Nicholls gets some career advice from a pro
Monumental Art: Twin
Dominic Hand looks at Robert Ryman's masterpiece of subtlety
Primo Levi: A life broken down to its elements
Jessica Poole discusses the importance of the Holocaust survivor's memoir, The Periodic Table
A dark and memorable Fairytale
Catherine Kelly reviews Murakami’s latest novella, The Strange Library
Picks of the Week TT15 Week 4
Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events
Milestones: Claude Cahun
Imogen Lester discusses the early work of the Surrealist chameleon Claude Cahun, who revelled in the art of reinvention and refused to submit to convention
Mexico’s changing faces: the surrealist work of the 40s
Morgan Harries explores the ever-changing artworks produced by a country in search of itself
Early English opera: the failed metamorphosis
Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull questions why England never had an operatic renaissance
