Tuesday 2nd September 2025

Culture

‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ If there is one word to describe Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur, it is anxious. The one-hour solo cello comedy show is filled with anxiety, existential dread, and uncertainty....
Culture Peter Hardisty -

The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

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

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,...
Books Charlie Stevens -

Oxford Commas at the Fringe – Interview

The Oxford Commas are a contemporary gender-inclusive a capella group who had their Fringe...
Culture Lara Machado -
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Review: Moneyball

Jacob Williamson is impressed by this intelligent sports film

Limp Pens

Christy Edwall considers the quirks of literary anti-prizes in general, and the 2011 Bad Sex in Literature Award in particular.

Review: South Pacific

James Blythe is swept away by this production at Oxford's New Theatre

Review: An Island

En Liang Khong follows Danish band Efterklang's move into cinema

Review: Curling King

Joseph Newall takes a look back at his film of the year, the Norwegian 'Kong Curling'

Review: My Week with Marilyn

Jacob Williamson is charmed by a hazy portrait of the cultural icon

Review: The Vaccines, O2 Academy

Harry Scholes expresses his disappointment at The Vaccines sell-out gig on 29th November

First Night Review : The Browning Version

Finola Austin finds Anna Stelle’s production of The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan to be an enjoyable night out but let down by the details.

First Night Review : Kafka’s Dick

Kafka’s Dick is a delightfully surreal dive into the life of the eponymous author.

First Night Review : Broken Stars

Julian Bubb-Humfryies sees 'a competant and thoughtful production' at the Wadham Moser Theatre.

Oxford Book Club

Michelle Cancellier on her recent visit to the Oxford Book Club

A fishy phenomenon

Fay Lomas pays tribute to a daring Oxford artistic feat

Better to be Popular than right

A review of Oxford alumnus Gareth Russell's new young adults' novel 'Popular'

Review: Brian Eno & Rick Holland – Panic Of Looking

Natasha Frost is bored, bothered and bewildered by Brian Eno's latest EP

Review: King Krule – King Krule

Hotly tipped seventeen year old Archy Marshall's debut EP is well received by Natasha Frost

Review: Atlas Sound – Parallax

Jake Hills examines Bradford Cox's latest album under his Atlas Sound moniker, his first full-length release since Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest

Flesh and noise: meeting S.C.U.M.

Isabel de Berrié talks flesh, shoegaze and sleeping rough in Venice with the quintet's Thomas Cohen

The best of 2011

The Cherwell Music team gets their thinking caps on to recommend the best of 2011's releases

Review: The Ides of March

Jacob Williamson is finds the ends justify the means in The Ides of March

A year-full of dollars

Helen Joslin takes a look back over the financial winners of 2011
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