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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:...
Monumental Art: Fine detailed portrait of Homer Simpson
Fintan Calpin on the genius of Chris (Simpsons Artist)
The Dark Side of the Picket Fence
Anthony Maskell explores the depths of filmmakers’ obsession with suburban darkness
Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Alec Badenoch finds the latest Avengers installment to be enjoyable but perfunctionary
In Defence of: Cloud Atlas
Anthony Maskell celebrates the Wachowskis' sprawling cross-genre multi-narrative epic
A view from the cheap seat
Lauren Jackson finds a long lost diary...
Preview: The Mercy of Titus
Paul Ostwald discovers the dark side of Mozart's Opera
Preview: Cut the Mustard
Lata Nobes is serenaded at a preview of Revue duo’s madcap offering
Preview: I Nominate
Staging virtual reality
Death Is A Terrible Curse And There Is No Getting Around It
5 Songs to help you forget that you will die one day
Preview: Creditors
How to untangle Strindberg
Comedy Tonight
Bethan Roberts meets the team behind College Comedy Nights
Picks of the Week TT15 Week 2
Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events
Milestones: Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Voice’ (1912)
Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses Thomas Hardy's poetic masterpiece of love, loss and guilt
Still singing the Blues: Billie Holiday 100 years on
Catherine Kelly discusses the life, legacy and enduring popularity of the first lady of jazz
