Thursday 18th June 2026

Culture

The ‘Obsession’ Obsession

'Obsession' is a taste of what the next generation of filmmakers looks like.

Slow down, you crazy child: What Oxford student theatre can learn from garden plays

Student theatre strives to be as professional as possible, but the annual garden play offers something unique: permission to have fun.

Rap as poetry: ‘The Odyssey’ and the breakdown of the medium

When interviewed on his decision to cast Travis Scott as a bard figure in...

Hag, Nag, Harpy, Hen: Olivia Plender’s ‘Little Fennel’s Complaint’

It is the examination of archaic methods and attitudes surrounding women’s bodies, and the idea of the ‘nagging’ woman, which runs through Olivia Plender’s exhibition.

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

15 years since…

We take a look at Leftism by Leftfield

Something to watch

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me impressed Vanessa Lehner

A Humorous Rhinoceros

Brave choices and absurdist comedy make this production entertaining as well as profound, says Alex du Sautoy

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

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