Thursday 21st August 2025

Culture

HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only proves that point. HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL, created by Chicago-based comedian Brendan Tran, pays...

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine,...

St Anne’s goes All-Steinway: A purposeful and bold commitment to music

In a move that lives up to its motto of ‘Consulto et Audacter’ (purposefully...

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much...

Perfect Vision

We get a good look at Oxford's telescope exhibition

All Stiles, no substance

Jenny Vass reviews Kieran Stiles' new exhibition.

Poetry in Motion

Andrew Motion's 'Ways of Life'

Book Review: Winter In Madrid

CJ Sansom, Pan Books, £7.99

Book Review: Musicophilia

Oliver Sacks, Picador, £8.99

Blasphemy: On The Road

This week, Cherwell gets angry about the Jack Kerouac 'classic'

The World’s A Stage: Cairo

Cherwell witnesses some unusual interpretations of Shakespeare...

Review: Endgame

Keble O'Reilley, Tuesday - Saturday 4th week

Review: Richard III

OFS Studio, Tuesday - Saturday 4th week

Review: A Few Good Men

Oxford Playhouse, Wednesday - Saturday, 4th Week

All jazzed up and nowhere to go?

We take a look at what's on offer for the jazz connoisseur in Oxford

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Dario Fo's best-known play receives four star treatment from Polar Bear Productions

First Night: The Last Train Out of Here

We take a first-night look at Helen McCabe's new play

Craig has Connery’s Crown in sight

Joshua Williams anticipates this season's biggest film event; Quantum of Solace.

Jose Parla – Cuban Graffiti

Jacob goddard looks at Jose Parla's debut graffiti show

Los Campesinos!- ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’

Alex Wilson reviews Los Campesinos' newest release

Genre Confused; Anticon

Andrew Littlejohn looks at the redeeming features of Anticon

Friday Night-Mare

Robert Holtom celebrates halloween with a scary movie marathon

Keane – Perfect Symmetry

Are Keane as cool as they'd like to be? We find out if their latest album measures up...

The Perlys – Yet Death will seize …

We review an album packed full of quacked-up, left-of-the-beat jiggy-pop.

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