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...
The Author: The Atrocity Exhibition
Michael Roderick discusses the rehearsed reading of The Author, part of the OUDS New Writing Festival
Oscar Predictions – 2015
Which films will win big on Oscar night, and which films ought to? Toby Scadding airs his views
Review: Selma
Clara-Læïla Laudette finds Selma to be a powerful and politically motivating film
Review: Jupiter Ascending
Emmanuelle Soffe saw Jupiter Ascending as a film that failed to take off
Review: OUDS New Writing Festival
Bethan Roberts reviews four plays by upcoming writers
Preview: King Lear
Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull sees promise in this production
Picks of the Week HT15 Week 6
Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events
Milestones: landmark gay moments on TV
Cherwell picks out key moments in cultural history. This week, Ollie Johnson charts some of the landmark gay moments in TV
It’s time to say bi to the straight and narrow
Bethan Roberts scrutinises the presentation of bisexuality on television
We should stop fetishising independent bookstores
Lily McIlwain’s tour of Oxford’s bookshops raises some questions concerning student ‘support’
Oxford International Art Fair
Mark Barclay is seriously unimpressed with both paintings and prices
Loading the Canon: Ian Hamilton
Ben Cooke calls for the addition of poet and critic Ian Hamilton to the literary establishment
Where are they now: Toni Basil
Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to...
Wolf Alice: From Carter’s cover to album cover
Sara Semic chats to Theo Ellis from Wolf Alice about touring with Alt-J and making their debut album
