Culture
The art of rowing: In conversation with Emily Craig
After a formidable finish in the Lightweight Women’s double sculls at the 2024 Paris Olympics in August, Team GB’s Emily Craig and Imogen Grant secured their places as the...
On Leadership by Tony Blair, Precipice by Robert Harris, and Oxford crime – Books of the Month
On Leadership by Tony Blair; Precipice by Robert Harris; Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order review – “An excellent account”
Dr Edward Howell, whose columns in the Spectator and the Telegraph are among the...
A Revolution Betrayed by Peter Hitchens review – In Defence of Grammar Schools
Review – A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System by Peter...
Veranilda by George Gissing review – The best historical novel never written
George Gissing remains the most underrated novelist in the English language. He wrote twenty-three...
Review: Carl Bar̢t and The Jackals РLet It Reign
Aidan Clark is unimpressed by The Libertines co-frontman's solo endeavours
Review: José González – Vestiges & Claws
Rachael Griffith is swayed by the soothing melodies of Swedish folk singer José González
Confessions of a metalhead
Colette Lewis bemoans the prejudice against heavy metal music and its fans
Picks of the Week HT15 Week 7
Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events
Milestones: Football and Music
Tom Barrie examines the fruitful marriage of football and music
Interview: Nick Jonas
Nick Jonas talks to Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull about his childhood and life in the media spotlight
Monumental Art: Seven Works of Mercy
Anna Zanetti discusses Caravaggio in the latest installment of our series
Loading the Canon: Barbara Pym
Lily McIlwain calls for the addition of Barbara Pym to the literary establishment
Death of a Playwright: Arthur Miller remembered
10 years on, Emma Irving looks back at the work of one of the Twentieth Century’s greatest writers
Review: The Duchess of Malfi
Zara Brownless enjoys this modernised version of the Renaissance tragedy
Review: King Lear
Mark Barclay reviews this original, cinematic reinvention of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies
Voices from the Past: Sylvia Plath
Hear Plath reading her own poetic account of her tortured relationship with her father
Review: Captain Amazing
Anna Zanetti reviews this one man show at the BT Studio
Preview: Blood Wedding
Lata Nobes gets a sneak peak at the new adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding
