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The US Midterms and the YA novel: impossible happy endings

Given its intense media coverage and everything that seems to be on the line, I feel as though I have been anxiously awaiting the results of the 2026 US...

How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be...

The burden of the face: Why are so many singers wearing masks?

We can all name at least one musician who has performed behind a balaclava, helmet, or hood. Whether to preserve anonymity, cultivate mystery, or construct an entirely new artistic identity, masking the face is common among those under the limelight.

New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the...

Review: Andy Eastwood, Holywell

Huw Fullerton reviews 'musical variety entertainer' Andy Eastwood's 'Return of the Uke' gig

Review: Gotye – Making Mirrors

Patrick Scott examines Gotye's incoherent Making Mirrors

Interview: Hopsin

Steffan Blayney talks to internet rap sensation Hopsin about going it alone and being true to yourself

Review: Antarctica

Natasha Frost is impressed by OUDS' New Writing Festival 'Antarctica', despite identifying some structural problems with the script

Who write the word? Girls.

Cherwell reconsiders 'women's writing'

Mosse-t Interesting

Jack Powell and Chloë Wicks speak to award-winning author Kate Mosse

The long and the short of it

Christy Edwall speaks with the new master of the short short story

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Producer’s Blog

Sarah Leonard on the trials and tribulations of the audition process

Blockbusters and Bueller: the 80s in film

Anna Leszkiewicz seeks out the infectious enthusiasm and big displays of 1980s cinema

A ring of writers

Rebecca Loxton introduces Oxford brand new writer's circle

Skins at Season Six

Goh Li Sian bemoans the decline of the hit teen drama

Review: The Muppets

Joseph Newall finds The Muppets well worth the ticket price

A Bluffers’ Guide to: Ambient Female Vocals

In his final Bluffers', Harry Scholes explores beautiful ambient music with female vocals

Review: Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror

Ceri Fowler tackles Sleigh Bell's second album, Reign of Terror

Review: The Shins – Port of Morrow

The elusive Natasha Frost reviews the fantastic new album from the Shins

Interview: Motion Sickness of Time Travel

Rachel Evans discusses the sounds of her forthcoming eponymous opus with Harry Scholes

New Writing Festival

Charlotte Lennon previews the New Writing Festival

Review: Gormenghast

Hannah White-Steel is entertained, but ultimately unsatisfied by this production

By An Act of Godber

Playwright John Godber talks to Charlotte Lennon about classrooms, class and critics

Culture Vulture 7th week

Cherwell’s culture editors peck at seventh week’s cultural offerings

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