Tuesday 28th April 2026

Culture

Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’

Originality could be dead in pop music. The genre is so self-referential that it feels like an endless borrowing game, buying into nostalgia for bygone times outside of our...
Music Val Michael -

Why you should spring clean your bookshelf this Trinity

In the Northern Hemisphere, astronomers mark the beginning of spring on the date of...
Books Elizabeth Bourn -

Does ‘Euphoria’ no longer speak to our generation?

Should I have been watching Euphoria’s first season as an innocent, bright-eyed 14-year-old? Probably...
Culture Emma Heagney -

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by...
Culture Evelyn Lambert -
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The Good Natured

Alex Chalk goes gothic with The Good Natured.

Review: Anna Karenina

Harry Dienes examines the latest cinematic adaptation of Tolstoy's epic.

Interview: Marina and the Diamonds

Olivia Arigho Stiles quizzes Marina and the Diamonds on fame, music and feminism

Interview: Alan Davies

Alan Davies talks about the pain of living and his imminent return to stand-up comedy

‘We Bury Our Own’ Exhibition Review

Rachel Hutchings reviews Christian Thomspson's evocative photography, currently exhibited at the Pitt Rivers.

Illyria Film Fund opens in Oxford

Nick Hilton speaks to the founders of a new film fund aimed at aspiring film-makers amongst Oxford students

Review: Downton Abbey – Series 3

Lizzie Greene is still enjoying the nation's most loved and least plausible period drama

Interview: Peter Bradshaw

Hattie Soper speaks to Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw about his career and the future of cinema

Review: Looper

Georgina Pollard is impressed by this new take of the time travel movie

Is there a ‘way to be gay’?

Adam Whiley is frustrated with a book that he believes undermines the advances of the LGBT movement.

Preview: A View from the Bridge

Heather Young watches a believable reality unfold before her eyes

Lied-ing Light

Katy Wright talks to Sholto Kynoch, artistic director of the Oxford Lieder Festival.

All Freshers to the Stage

Cherwell Stage offers a guide to all you need to get started, whether aspiring impresario, techie or prima dona

¡Vamos España!

Sophie Baggott and her camera spend a week in the Spanish sunshine

Zoom in on…paparazzi photographers

In the first of our new interview series, Jaimie Harris talks to Sophie Baggott and Amy Rollason about life as a pap

The X-facts

Huw Fullerton lifts the lid on TV's reigning talent show: he's endured the live auditions so you don't have to

Woman-To-Be

Angelika Benz hasn't herself quite figured out yet what it means to be a woman. Carefully portraying girls and young women she meets - including her own reflection in the mirror - she attempts to get closer to the core of their identity and finds that much of what she sees also lives in herself.

Review: Julius Caesar

Vickie Morrish is impressed by Gregory Doran's coupling of modern Africa and ancient Rome

Cultural Conversation Starters

A Guide to How to Appear More Interesting Than You Actually Are Through the Medium of Culture

The Freshers Guide to Classical Music in Oxford

Katy Wright appraises Oxford's diverse classical musical offerings
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