Sunday 11th January 2026

Culture

2025 releases you may not have seen (but definitely should)

It’s that time of year again: the season in which we are inundated with a never-ending stream of lists ranking 2025’s top releases. Cherwell, however, will not attempt to...

‘Dark, revealing, gripping’: In conversation with the cast of ‘JACK’

JACK, by Musketeer Productions, reimagines the cult story of the most notorious serial killer...

‘The political is also political’: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Minority Rule’

Universities have often been seen as bastions of radicalism. Forgetting the fact that higher...

Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed

Boulevard Productions’ Circle Mirror Transformation is a faithful and competent take on Annie Baker’s...

Interview: Portico Quartet

Cherwell catches up with saxophonist Jack Wylie and drummer Duncan Bellamy at their East London home

Review: Cardenio

Much to her surprise, Rebecca Tatlow thoroughly enjoys the recent reimagination of Shakespeare’s lost play put on as part of the RSC 50th Birthday Season at The Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon

Review: A C Grayling at the Oxford Literary Festival

Tian Yi Zheng reviews A. C. Grayling's visit to the Oxford Literary Festival where he talks about his new work, The Good Book: A Secular Bible

Etcetera announces competition winners

Cherwell's literary supplement, Etcetera, announces the winners of their first Freestyle Writing Competition

Review: ‘Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing’

Ella Sands reviews 'Initiate', the first anthology of work by graduates of Oxford's MSt in Creative Studies

Mastering creative writing

Tom Cutterham and Ella Sands talk to Dr Clare Morgan, director of Oxford's MSt in Creative Writing, about how the course has been instrumental in encouraging students to start writing more than just essays

Review: The Pigeon Detectives Live

Penny Sarchet reviews the Oxford leg of the Pigeon Detectives' comeback tour following the recent release of their new album, 'Up, Guards And At 'Em!'

Cherwell Abroad: Paris

Cherwell visits the Musée d'Orsay on Paris' Left Bank

Cherwell Abroad: Rome

Cherwell takes a look around the Borghese Gallery

Review: Colin Stetson – ‘New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges’

Simon Torracinta reviews Colin Stetson's mind-bending solo album

Review: Metamorphoses – Fables from Ovid

Rebecca Tatlow finds this modern adaptation of Ovid surprisingly faithful to the original

Rave in the nave

Marques Toliver and Lianne La Havas play St Giles in the Fields Church

Review: Nicholas Ostler at the Oxford Literary Festival

Rebecca Tatlow hears Nicholas Ostler talk about his new book, \'The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel\'

Review: The Strokes – ’Angles’

Patrick Scott explains why The Strokes just aren\'t cutting the right shapes and Angles with their latest album

Review: Submarine

Jacob Williamson weighs up Richard Ayoade's directorial debut

Panic on the streets of London

Marcin Plonka risks it all to capture last Saturday's demonstration from the front line of the breakaway group

Review: Cause Celebre

Francesca Wade finds cause for celebration in this revival of Rattigan's final play

Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Taylor

Students, peers and critics remember Taylor\'s life-long contribution to Oxford theatre

Review: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger

Jacob Williamson is underwhelmed by Woody Allen\'s latest sermon on the philosophy of life

Back in Black?

Jo Sarchet reflects on minimalism and modernity in Yohji Yamamoto\'s first major solo show in the UK

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