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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:...
Review: Revolution – The St Anne’s Musical Revue
Joseph Evans finds St Anne's latest musical offering to be a generally entertaining evening - choreography aside
Live Review: Turbowolf
Joe Manktelow thinks Turbowolf will go on to bigger and better things, having enjoyed their live performance at the Bullingdon Arms
Review: Passion Pit – Kindred
Tom Waterhouse is impressed by Passion Pit's latest offering
5 songs to get you through an all-nighter for an essay
Rachael Griffith takes you through the ultimate essay crisis playlist
Interview: Bipolar Sunshine
Rachael Griffith chats with the proud Mancunian Bipolar Sunshine
Preview: Beachcombing
Mark Barclay takes a look at this meditative new play from a rising star of the Oxford drama scene
Preview: Killing Hitler
Oxford Graduates and the July Plot to assassinate Hitler
Picks of the Week TT15 Week 3
Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events
Milestones: Louis Le Prince and the earliest films
Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses early documentary films and the work of the world's first true film-maker, Louis Le Prince (1841-90)
Collective Voice: the rise of the radio documentary
Beatrice Liese examines the ongoing difficulties and successes of the personal radio story and podcast
Simon Elmes: documentary and the art of story-telling
Elliot Langley talks to the former Creative Director of the BBC's Radio Documentary Unit
The poet as performer
Ben Cooke discusses sound and senselessness in the verse of James Fenton
Christian Richter: unearthing a past of architectural genius
Millie McLuskie talks to the photographer about imaging the abandoned and the ephemeral
The genius of Mad Men
Toby Scadding casts a retrosepctive glance over Mad Men's past seven seasons, locating the show amongst the pantheon of television classics
