Culture
On Leadership by Tony Blair, Precipice by Robert Harris, and Oxford crime – Books of the Month
On Leadership by Tony Blair; Precipice by Robert Harris; Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order review – “An excellent account”
Dr Edward Howell, whose columns in the Spectator and the Telegraph are among the...
A Revolution Betrayed by Peter Hitchens review – In Defence of Grammar Schools
Review – A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System by Peter...
Veranilda by George Gissing review – The best historical novel never written
George Gissing remains the most underrated novelist in the English language. He wrote twenty-three...
Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – “The prime minister we never had”
This is a marvellous book, a memoir of Rory Stewart’s nine years in Parliament,...
Preview: The Play’s the Thing
Darya Shchepanovska is impressed by this Improvised Shakespeare
Preview: Antigone
Georgina Wilson find this tragedy slightly lacking in bite
Preview: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Georgina Wilson laughs and cries at this BT production
Preview: The Merchant of Venice
Nicholas Crossland is impressed this Corpus Owlets' production
Focus on…The Old Fire Station
Alexander Woolley talks to Artistic Director Jeremy Spafford
"Film-making: it’s just mucking about really!"
Sophie Hall-Luke talks to President of the Oxford University Film Foundation, Tom Shennan, about making films and this year's festival.
Review: Flight
Denzel Washington is flying high and not-so-dry in this 'extremely fun drama'.
Hughes-d and abused
Emily Hislop asks whether Rom-Com(-Vom) makers using Hughes in their films have ever really watched them
Are movies trailing in the dust?
Huw Fullerton takes a look at the rise of the trailer and the fall of film.
Preview: ROPE
Eleanor Halls enjoys this Oxford-based play
Valentine’s Day Special
Cherwell Music finds many, many songs suited to this special day
Review: Another Country
Alex Woolley reviews the second Playhouse show of the term
Review: You Maverick
Matt Parvin's latest play turns out to be enjoyable, if heavy-handed at times
Dates with Disaster
Sophie Hall-Luke defends 'The Undateables'
