Culture

“What is a good life?”: The Standard of Living in review 

“What is a good life?” This axiological question, asked earnestly in the opening lines of James Graham’s The Standard of Living – playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket until December 12 – is often overlooked by the fractured and hyper-specialised discipline of economics.

Diverse voices: ‘Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah’ by Miljenko Jergović 

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into...

Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...

Good grief! Why do we feel for the death of fictional people?

Whether it’s a mild sniffle or full-blown tears, I always end up feeling a bit ridiculous about the whole ordeal when it’s over. I mean, it’s not real, is it? Why do I waste my grief on things that haven’t happened, that will never happen?

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

Cherwell Photo Blog: Version 2.0

Check out our second week of fine Oxford photography.

Online Review: It’s Complicated

It's Complicated? Not really

Drama Briefing

All the thespy ins and outs this week

Off, you lendings

Looking ahead to 'Equus', our Stage Editor takes a voyeuristic peek at onstage nudity

What you’ve been missing: Polish art

As well as gold suits and spaceships, what else has the former Communist state to offer?

Review: A Children’s Book

Harry Potter would be infinitely preferable to this Booker-Prize nominee

Fool’s Gold

Our reviewer regrets dressing up for this interactive review

Guilty Pleasures

Films or genres we know we shouldn't like, but do. This week, Strictly Ballroom

Review: Brothers

Solid, but in the end unremarkable

Pick of the Week

Our pick of the latest releases. This week: Heartland by Owen Pallet

Review ‘End Times’ by Eels

A divorce made in heaven.

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