Monday 15th September 2025

Culture

Animal History: Reviewed

If an older adult has ever raised their eyebrow at your vegetarianism, then I might just have the book for you. They might be interested in knowing that even...

Hertford Archaeology Open Day: Medieval Oxford laid bare

You may have spent the last year wondering what has been going on amongst...

The Blue Trail: Reviewed

★★★★☆ The Blue Trail (O Último Azul), this year’s winner of the Berlin International Film...

Review: Sketches from a Curious Mind

In 1962, Edward Anthony wrote: “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a...

First night: The Magic Toyshop

Artful, exciting and ambitious. Not bad at all

Burns Night – a retrospective

A selection of photos from Burns Night festivities at Balliol.

Chronicling transformation in ink

Review: Building the New Ashmolean: Drawings and Prints by Weimin He

In search of loves once lost

Our books editor loses and finds himself in Orhan Pamuk's 'The Museum of Innocence'

No horsing around here

Equus is sinister, stressful and very successful

Thou Shalt not…

Dan le sac talks to Cherwell about his relationship with Scroobius Pip

Guilty Pleasures

Films or genres we know we shouldn't like, but do. This week, Flash Gordon

Review: Precious

A diamond in the rough

Feature: Apocalypse Now

The end is nigh, in the cinema at least, says Nicolas Pierce

Online Review: Nine

It's no masterpiece, but it's an awful lot of fun

Cherwell Photo Blog: Version 2.0

Check out our second week of fine Oxford photography.

Online Review: It’s Complicated

It's Complicated? Not really

Drama Briefing

All the thespy ins and outs this week

Off, you lendings

Looking ahead to 'Equus', our Stage Editor takes a voyeuristic peek at onstage nudity

What you’ve been missing: Polish art

As well as gold suits and spaceships, what else has the former Communist state to offer?

Review: A Children’s Book

Harry Potter would be infinitely preferable to this Booker-Prize nominee

Fool’s Gold

Our reviewer regrets dressing up for this interactive review

Guilty Pleasures

Films or genres we know we shouldn't like, but do. This week, Strictly Ballroom

Review: Brothers

Solid, but in the end unremarkable

Pick of the Week

Our pick of the latest releases. This week: Heartland by Owen Pallet

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