Sunday 16th November 2025

Culture

The power of the playlist

"These ten precious songs ... will become a time capsule"

Ceilings, wives, and love letters to the city: The Pre Raphaelites in Oxford

It was in 1857, not long after the construction of the Oxford Union, that...

The lying life of authors: John le Carré and authorial double-lives

“I’m not a spy who writes novels, I am a writer who briefly worked...

‘Undeniably and uniformly exceptional’: Uncle Vanya Reviewed

It is a privilege to attend the most anticipated production of the term, and...

Liebelei

A dark Viennese romance directed by Raymond Blankenhorn.

First Night Review: A Few Good Men Review

Opening night of A Few Good Men impresses

Review: Through the leaves

BT late slot, Tuesday - Saturday 4th Week

Review: Don Juan in Soho

OFS, Tuesday- Saturday 4th Week

To shout or not to shout?

Cherwell asks (or rather rants about) the inevitable question...

The World’s A Stage: Buenos Aires

This week Cherwell finds poverty a spur to dramatic innovation in Argentina

Snow Patrol: A Hundred Million Suns

Snow Patrol's new album is a good effort, but a lot could have been done better...

Belle and Sebastian: The BBC Sessions

Can Belle and Sebastian crack the curse of the live album?

Genre Confused: Dubstep

This week, we look at the dubstep phenomenon

A success 700 years in the making

Joseph Weir gets folked up with the uniquely brilliant Bellowhead

Brolin’s Bush Stone’s Throw From Truth

We review Oliver Stone's new biopic

Picture Politics

Do politics have a place in the cinema?

Easy Virtue

We review the swinging new Noel Coward adaptation.

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...

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