Saturday 21st March 2026

Culture

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.
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How 2025’s biggest films made their mark through music

The recent Oscar nominations have allowed us to reflect on how fundamental musical scores are to film, and the highlights of last year’s film soundtracks.
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Translating Oxford into Urdu

It’s a different emotion whenever I read the Urdu language. I’m not a native speaker, nor have I actively pursued learning the language, but as someone who finds solace in reading shayari (Urdu poetry), I wanted to follow it even in Oxford.
Books Manya Singh -

Stitching the world together: GFC’s London Fashion Week show

A few weeks ago we, the Cherwell fashion editors, were lucky enough to be extended an invite by the Global Fashion Collective to their London Fashion Week show.
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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

This Amsterdam Nation

Alice Bullough gives us a captivating glimpse of life in Amsterdam through the lens

Three days at the Fringe

Cherwell Culture brings us some highlights from the Edinburgh Festival 2011

Portrait of a Rival (Part 2)

In continuation from our last photo essay, Joseph Caruana travels to Durham to show us what we're missing out on up Nor'

Portrait of a Rival (Part 1)

This week, Joseph Caruana finds plenty of reasons why you might regret choosing Oxford over Cambridge on your UCAS form

A Miró on Society

Cherwell reviews the Tate Modern's retrospective on the life and works of Joan Miró

Tracey on Tracey

Charles Mercer has mixed feelings about Tracey Emin's new survey exhibition at the Hayward

Review: Beirut – The Rip Tide

Natasha Frost takes a look at Beirut’s first album in four years. Is the Balkan-folk-pop formula still a winning one?

Review: Bj̦rk РBiophilia Singles Roundup

Tom May looks at the three songs to have been released so far from Björk’s highly anticipated Biophilia project

Review: Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch the Throne

Bombastic masterpiece or rap-by-numbers money grab? Simon Torracinta takes on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s much-anticipated collaboration

No small feat

Matthew Perkins is enchanted and charmed by Arrietty

Top scores at the BBC Proms

We are well underway with “the world’s greatest classical music festival”: Leah Broad reviews the year’s concerts this far, and what to look out for in the season to come

Review: Little Dragon – Ritual Union

Simon Torracinta discusses the sensual new release by Swedish quartet Little Dragon
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