Thursday 13th November 2025

Culture

What does a Ruskin artist actually learn? A graduate’s perspective

Create, critique, repeat? Polina Kim interviewed recent John Ruskin MFA graduate Laura Limbourg about the inner workings, of unknown to the public, of the school. Oxford terms are intense. Lawyers,...
Art Polina Kim -

Why we’re obsessed with Greek myth retellings

In every bookshop today, from Blackwell’s to Waterstones, an unmistakable pattern emerges: Greek myth...
Books Hannah Becker -

Down the rabbit hole: illustrating ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has long proved an endless source of inspiration to illustrators....
Art Verity Fleetwood-Law -

The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

While watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025) a few weeks ago,...
Culture Eve Thomas -
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tick…tick…Boom

Larson's rock monologue at the OFS

Review: We’ll Meet Again

Cherwell celebrates a new comedy that brings home the funny.

Review: Green Day

We review Green Day's long-awaited new album '21st Century Breakdown'

Review: Alphabetical Order

This newspaper-centred farce is just like OxStu, only funny.

Udder

A play about milk addiction

Interview: Ruth Padel

Cherwell talks to Ruth Padel, Oxford's new Professor of Poetry

Review: Childish Sophistication

Jonathan Sims looks at sculpted wooden toys by Ian McKay and silkscreen paintings by Catherine Rayner

Review: Awaydays

Cherwell aims a kick at Holden's offering

Top Five Films to…make you laugh irritatingly loudly

A comedic twinge for filmic fiends

Interview: Bombay Bicycle Club

Cherwell chats to the band at the Great Escape Festival

Uncooping diverse talents

Chickenshed: a company destroying social divides through drama

Fit Fiction: Shakespeare’s Men

Our contributor gets hot under the collar for Willy's dramatic creations

Review: This is India

A British gap-year student goes to India in this new production

All’s Well That Ends Well

Shakespeare's Blackest Comedy in Magdalen College Gardens

Interview: Holy Fuck

what the Fuck is up with this music scene?

Interview: The Sunshine Underground

we bring a little bit of Sunshine into your life

Review: The Pitchfork Disney

Almost as good as that bit in Bambie where his mother dies

Review: As You Desire Me

Not a play for theatre-goers desiring anything substantial

Review: Angels and Demons

Is the new Dan Brown flick hellish, or simply divine?

Review: Synecdoche, New York

Pericles Megas takes us through Charlie Kaufman's latest offering
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