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The midterms and the YA novel: Impossibly 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 midterm elections for weeks, months – maybe years.
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How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be...
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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.
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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...
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Damian Lewis: Cherwell salutes you

Francesca Wade speaks to the Band of Brothers star about his acting career, his American personality, and the trials and tribulations of the film industry

Review: The Courting of Claire

A ‘gritty kitchen-sink drama’, a comedy of manners, a rom-com and a horror; The Courting of Claire by student playwright Matt Fuller is on at the Burton Taylor in 3rd week

Review: Arcadia

A challenging drama with a bit of bawdy comedy; Tom Stoppard's masterful work delivers a difficult pleasure

The Play of Colour

May Anderson takes part in an intense rehearsal for She was Yellow, coming to the Burton Taylor in 3rd week, and briefly loses the boundary between reality and fiction

Review: Little White Lies

Guillaume Canet fails to depart from the clichéd with a film in which the characters smoke a lot, swear a lot and break things when they get angry, without getting up to much

Déjà view: Seen it all before?

Antz and A Bug's Life, Deep Impact and Armageddon, Kick-Ass and Hanna: similarities in themes and plot demonstrate Hollywood's inability to go beyond trends

Review: Shostakovich by Florestan Trio and Susan Gritton

One of the most exciting ensembles on the British classical music scene's final recording is a difficult yet fascinating listen

Review: w h o k i l l by tUnE-yArDs

Singer-songwriter Merrill Garbus' solo project tUnE-yArDs yields another album of sonic potpourri; jarring yet irresistible

What Doherty did next…

Cherwell saw Pete Doherty of Pete Doherty infamy at the O2 Academy, and was pleasantly surprised by both his punctuality and his performance

Diving in at the shallow end

Is the short story a lesser genre? Ella Sands recommends some conveniently brief gems.

First past the postmodern

The latest round-up of contemporary British art, In the Days of the Comet, proposes to show us ‘alternative ways of thinking about the here and now’ yet only seems to confuse and irritate

Aphra

Harriet Baker reveals all about this pioneering female playwright

Review: The Man with a Flower in his Mouth

Wake up and smell the coffee: Josephine Sarchet discovers that Metta Theatre’s Pirandello performance in a café is more than just a gimmick

Taking Wadstock

Penny Sarchet tells us what its like to play with a funk soul ensemble at Oxford University's annual festival event.

Week in Pictures (2)

This week, Amelia Cox shares moments captured during her trip to Holland - and there's not a windmill in sight

Week In Pictures (1)

Joseph Caruana goes back home to Malta to bring us some splendid colour and light

May Day, May Day!

Cherwell's photo team document this year's May Day mayhem

Review: Marcus Foster Live

Francesca Wade is impressed by the rock ballads of Robert Pattinson's best mate

Review: Ashmolean Late and Pots and Plays

Operas, poetry, audio plays and two very intense DJs - Rebecca Tatlow reports on one of her favourite nights out in a long time

Review: Call of the Wild

May Anderson reviews the much anticipated stage adaptation of Jack London's novel, Call of the Wild, and is far from disappointed
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