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Sin and nectar: Behind the scenes of ‘Women Beware Women’

I arrived at a rehearsal of Women Beware Women and found Hippolito (Kit Parsons) and Isabella (Céline Mathilda), uncle and niece, embracing and sharing an incestous kiss flavoured by...

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Well-managed complexity: ‘In Praise of Love’

In Praise of Love by Terence Rattigan was a play well-chosen in today’s political...

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Fashion around Oxford – Iggy Clarke

Iggy Clarke, the president of the 2025 Oxford Fashion Gala, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now.

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Look up! Statues and gargoyles in Oxford

Walking around Oxford you often feel like you’re part of the city’s tourist attraction....

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No Benefits

Jacob Williamson doesn’t see the attraction in Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis’ new romcom

Review: Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind of Fix

Cherwell discusses A Different Kind of Fix, the third LP from Crouch End indie rock/folk quartet Bombay Bicycle Club

Review: Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know

Laura Marling dazzled with her first two albums, especially critics’ darling sophomore release I Speak Because I Can. Does her third full-length match up? Matt Walsh takes a look.

Cows, Combines, and Country Bumpkins

With the hay cut and the cows calved, Becky Nye gives us a concluding snapshot of rural life and farming on the Isle of Wight from the summer season.

Review: CANT – Dreams Come True

Natasha Frost dissects the first solo release from Grizzly Bear bassist and producer wunderkind Chris Taylor

The Cherwell Guide to Oxford Cinema

Cherwell Film provides a quick run-down on some of the places in the city you can go to satisfy your filmic cravings

Review: Bestival

Cherwell gives a glowing (but exhausted) review of a weekend of music, mud and Madonna outfits

The Fringe

This week, we continue with the second part in our series on street festivals as Sophie Balfour-Lynn gives us a taste of the drama at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

From the Sublime to the Riddikulus: Part 2

Was the magic really there? Cherwell takes a look back over the Harry Potter film series and says... Yes. Well, maybe.

From the Sublime to the Riddikulus: Part 1

Was the magic really there? Now that the world and his wife is sure to have seen the final installment, Cherwell takes a look back over the Harry Potter film series and says... No.

Cherwell Music presents Mixer: August 2011

Cherwell Music presents one hour of August's best music, from Blood Orange's minimal indie-funk to the swaggering single from hip hop super-duo DOOMSTARKS.

Review: What is love anyway?

Cherwell is amused, moved, and undeniably impressed by comedian Richard Herring's latest Fringe show

Notting Hill Carnival

In the first of a two part series focusing on street festivals, Sophie Balfour-Lynn captures the vibrancy and colour at one of the UK's most famous carnivals

The Book of Boredom

Cherwell reviews David Foster Wallace's unfinished, posthumous novel The Pale King, and wonders what might have been

A guide to summer reading

Barbara Speed guides new Cherwell readers through that most insurmountable of obstacles - your First Reading List

Review: Jonquil — Mexico

Tom May welcomes the return of Oxford’s Jonquil as they release the first single from their upcoming album.

Interview: Trouble Books

Akron-based ambient pop duo Trouble Books discuss their aversion to playing live and their recent collaboration with Emeralds’ Mark McGuire.

Age of Steam

Becky Nye travels back to the halycon days of transport at the Isle of Wight Annual Steam Show

Review: Balam Acab — Wander / Wonder

James Manning explores the half-light of Balam Acab’s debut album

Review: Dinner

Cherwell whets its appetite at this student interpretation of Moira Buffini's Dinner at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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Sin and nectar: Behind the scenes of ‘Women Beware Women’

Well-managed complexity: ‘In Praise of Love’

Fashion around Oxford – Iggy Clarke

Look up! Statues and gargoyles in Oxford

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