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‘Burning Down the House’: A review 

During the odd ‘in-between’ space that is Week 0, I searched for a show to give me something to do, amid the random dilly-dallying and the odd collection currently occupying my time.

Why ‘No Bad Memories’ is my album of the year

I didn't expect how perfectly my personal happiness would fit an album so preoccupied with the sounds of old advertisements and obsolete electronics, filled with the relentless optimism of a world that believed the future could only get better. 

CUSP’s Dan Stock on the memories behind ‘English Country’

On Friday, CUSP, a Milton Keynes-based indie rock band, released their debut album, English...

A jarring Mann: ‘Fatherland’ (2026) in review

'Fatherland', which recounts celebrated Modernist author Thomas Mann’s return to a Germany in wreck and rubble, deals with great personal malaise against a backdrop of great political unease.

Stage Review – The Way of the World

Jocks, frocks and coxcombs in the gardens of Univ

3rd Week Photo Blog

Rule of thirds?

Cherwell’s Election Day Album

Cherwell photographers capture the election fever around town...

Review: Lashings of Ginger Beer

‘What would Enid say?’ asks Andrew McCormack

Online Reviews – The Homecoming and The Lover

Cherwell Stage revels in the Burton Taylor's unofficial Pinter week.

Review: The Butterfly’s Evil Spell

Verdict: Pretty but vacant

The Poptician will see you now

Andrew McCormack trades rhyme-time lines with the performance poet John Hegley.

Online Review: I Am Love

Sheer cinematographic delight says Simon Wright

Taking Time

University Drama Officer Barney Norris reports on the National Student Drama Festival (NSDF)

May Day!

Our Cherwell photographers report back from the early morning celebrations...

Corpus Christi Ball

A selection from last Friday's Medieval Ball...

Shirley Williams : Climbing The Bookshelves

A Liberal stalwart on her life in British politics

Online Review: The Ghost

Well constructed but uninspired says Benjamin Kirby

Cherwell Photo Blog Week II

Trintiy Term Cherwell Summer photography part 2 of 8...

Underrated: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

One of the best films of the decade, says Benjamin Kirby

Online Review: Agora

A celebration of enlightened scepticism, says Tom Cutterham

The Black President

Alex Dudok de Wit sheds light on the career of Afrobeat's founding father, Fela Kuti

Review: Boogie Woogie

A triumph of fun over art

Now you see her, now you don’t

Sophie Adelman takes a look at the latest disappearing act from J Blakeson

Win Hot Tub Time Machine goodies

The Cherwell has five packs of 80s shades, leg warmers and sweatbands to giveaway

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