Friday 21st November 2025

Culture

Little Kitchen’s Christ Church concert is exactly what you need this Oxmas

Little Kitchen, an Oxford-based music collective, will be performing in Christchurch this Thursday. It's the perfect Oxmas treat.

‘Controversial but compelling’: ‘Women Beware Women’ Reviewed

CW: Sexual assault The Michael Pilch Studio might just have been the perfect venue for...

GCSE drama nostalgia: ‘The Detention’ review

The Detention provided its fair share of giggles, but whether that was a result...

The power of the playlist

"These ten precious songs ... will become a time capsule"

‘In this world but not of it’

A look back over the uncompromising career of the late J.D. Salinger

Auschwitz-Birkenau-Bambi

A review of Miroslav Balka's 'Topography'

Review: Our Country’s Good

Meta theatre and good bad acting make this a production worth seeing

Writers on Track: NWF

The Producer of the New Writing Fesitval lets us know how it's all going

Review: One Life Stand by Hot Chip

A four-star fourth offering

Review: Odd Blood by Yeasayer

Album of the decade (so far).

Interview: Dev Heynes

The Lightspeed Champion talks Test Icicles with Cherwell

First Night Review: Equus

A strong, creepy performance, and marks to the audience too

Performance Review: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

Every minute of this one and a half hour play was worth watching

First night review: Rhinoceros

Will you join the herd? asks Robert Holtom

Review: Youth in Revolt

Not your average teen movie

Emma Johnson and Pascal Rogé

Our new classical music reviewer attends an impressive concert at the Sheldonian Theatre, 30th January

Heavenly Features

Nicolas Pierce evaluates cinema's after-death experiences

Online review: A Prophet

Beau Woodbury says the future's uncertain for this acclaimed drama

Cherwell Photo Blog – Week 3!

Yet more snaps and shots from around Oxford...

Art, not without ambition

Macbeth has much to commend and much to condemn, says Andrew McCormack

Online review: Edge of Darkness

Edge of your seat stuff

What you’ve been missing

Is it indulgent to review an author in this column? Not when it's Orhan Pamuk

Review: Romance is Boring

Cherwell's most musically minded Ex-Editor reviews the latest from Los Campesinos!

Review: Realism by The Magnetic Fields

Idiosyncratic but interesting

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