Monday 8th September 2025

Culture

Night School: Oxford’s after-hours curriculum

The first time I saw Nahom and Ethan, it wasn’t on a night out – it was an early morning. I was shuffling through the half-awake crowd when my...

‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ If there is one word to describe Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur, it is...

The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ Returning for their 62nd annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe, the Oxford Revue rolled...

Academia is hell, literally: R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’

R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis touches on a range of near-universal academic experiences: impostor syndrome; frantic,...

Review: Carnage

Joseph Newall deliberates Polanski's middle class farce

Decades in Film: the 50s

Benjamin McEvoy kicks back with Brando and Dean

Culture Vulture

The culture editors pick over the carcasses of fourth week's offerings

Just right with Cartwright

Christy Edwall talks apartheid and friendship with the acclaimed author

Noughtie Oxford

Tom Cutterham reviews Ben Masters' first novel - a eulogy to student life

Film’s four-legged friends

Sasha O'Connor accompanies our War Horse review with a broader look at iconic horses in cinema

Review: War Horse

Joseph Newall is unimpressed by Spielberg's equine epic

Press Preview: Cabaret

Alex Sheppard visits the seedy Kit Kat Klub

Wise-ing Up

Christy Edwall takes a tour of Summertown's Sarah Wiseman Gallery

Women at Work

Rebecca Loxton talks to Oxford grad Joanna Berry about the new chick-lit

First Night Review: The Hothouse

Pollyanna Marsden is captivated by this interpretation of Pinter's masterpiece

Review: On the Line

Daniel Frampton is unimpressed by the lack of originality and flare in 'On the Line', showing at the Wadham Moser Theatre

Messiah Man: Preview

Lilith Dornhuber de Bellesiles attends the Messiah Man preview performance and its writers give Cherwell Stage a glimpse of the man behind the play

Review: Curse of the Oxford Revue

Joshua Phillips is tickled, though not bowled over, by the antics of Oxford Revue

Review: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Out of Frequency

Marc Pacitti is left with a spring in his step by new release from Denmark's Asteroid Galaxy Tour

DVD Review: The Burma Conspiracy

Nathan O'Neill considers Jérôme Salle's latest comic book adaptation

Cherwell Music presents Mixer: Farewell to 2011

Cherwell Music bids farewell to 2011 with a selection from the year's singles.

Sutherland-scapes

Jack Castle takes us on this week’s exhibition tour at Modern Art Oxford

Revolting Rhymes

Grace Goddard listens to performance poet Luke Wright waxing lyrical

Kabuki Groupie

Viccy Ibbett goes to the Ashmolean for a tutorial in Japanese art

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