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...
Preview: Dido and Aeneas
Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull previews a newly produced student opera
Preview: Music for Madagascar
Felix Klos gives you a taster of what to expect at this Saturday's jazz concert for charity, featuring Dot's Funk Odyssey, The Oxford Gargoyles and The New Men
Review: PotosÃ
Fergus Morgan is charmed by this innocent, amusing and quintessentially human piece of student writing
Voices from the Past: Virginia Woolf
Cherwell analyses Woolf's views on the power and potential of words in the only recording of her voice
Review: Ex Machina
Anthony Maskell finds novelist Alex Garland's debut to be full of pertinent questions about humans and technology
Picks of the Week HT15 Week 3
Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events
Milestones: Restoration Comedy
Bethan Roberts reflects on the rise of raunchy theatre following Charles II's return to the throne
From funny to f*cked: is the British sitcom dead?
Jamie Tahsin examines the failing health of this formerly great genre
Freakshow Television
Eve Beere argues that our fascination with voyeuristic TV about others' bodies stems from our sense of superiority to them
Review: American Sniper
Clint Eastwood's latest film is little more than an exercise in wartime propaganda, and it grates
Forget Magna Carta: discover the oldest English law codes
Elliot Langley explores the recently digitised manuscript of the Textus Roffensis
Loading the Canon: Darkness at Noon
Ben Cooke calls for the addition of Arthur Koestler's chilling novel to the literary establishment
“Who are you?” Grayson Perry wants to find out
Alex Peplow reviews Perry’s latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
Preview: The Effect
Mark Barclay previews an upcoming production of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect
