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How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be out of reach tomorrow. You might believe book banning to be a thing of the...

The burden of the face: Why are so many singers wearing masks?

We can all name at least one musician who has performed behind a balaclava, helmet, or hood. Whether to preserve anonymity, cultivate mystery, or construct an entirely new artistic identity, masking the face is common among those under the limelight.

New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the...

“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...

Interview: Dev Heynes

The Lightspeed Champion talks Test Icicles with Cherwell

First Night Review: Equus

A strong, creepy performance, and marks to the audience too

Performance Review: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

Every minute of this one and a half hour play was worth watching

First night review: Rhinoceros

Will you join the herd? asks Robert Holtom

Review: Youth in Revolt

Not your average teen movie

Emma Johnson and Pascal Rogé

Our new classical music reviewer attends an impressive concert at the Sheldonian Theatre, 30th January

Heavenly Features

Nicolas Pierce evaluates cinema's after-death experiences

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

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