Friday 9th January 2026

Culture

‘Dark, revealing, gripping’: In conversation with the cast of ‘JACK’

JACK, by Musketeer Productions, reimagines the cult story of the most notorious serial killer in British history. Shining a light particularly on the mistreatment of women and the brutality...
Culture Matilde Ambrosio -

‘The political is also political’: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Minority Rule’

Universities have often been seen as bastions of radicalism. Forgetting the fact that higher...
Books Morien Robertson -

Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed

Boulevard Productions’ Circle Mirror Transformation is a faithful and competent take on Annie Baker’s...
Culture Lara Machado -

‘We’re all mad here’: Alice in Won-DRE-Land at Tingewick 2025

When I wandered into Tingewick Hall on a cold, dark evening in seventh week,...
Culture Peter Chen -
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We review an album packed full of quacked-up, left-of-the-beat jiggy-pop.

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Too Cool for School?

As High School Musical 3 hits cinemas, we put Disney's most lucrative asset on trial

Exhibition Review: What is it like to be a bat?

Ovada

Exhibition Review: This house of books has no windows

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Rushdie was robbed

Why was Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence left off the Booker Prize shortlist?

Blasphemy: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Each week Cherwell cuts a literary 'classic' down to size. This week: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

The World’s A Stage: India

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Review: The last train out of here

BT early slot, Tuesday - Saturday 3rd week

Review: The last five years

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Peview: All roads lead to Rome

BT late slot, Tuesday - Saturday 3rd week

Genre confused: Intelligent Dance Music

Each week Cherwell brings you the potted version of an obscure musical genre. This week: IDM.

‘We are not a folk band’

Local troubadours Jonquil talk hip-hop, homecomings and Hispanic homies

Album review: Okkervil River

The Stand Ins, Jag Jagwar records

God on film

Cherwell's pick of Christian cinema's defining moments

Film meets the maker

Cherwell finds God at the cinema

Cat’s Cream: Week 2

Dauntless investigator Catherine Molony risks degree and heart failure to sample Oxford's nightlife on your behalf. Here are her tips for second week.

First night review: Agamemnon

The Greek play at Oxford. Any good this year?

Chain Reaction

The effect of teen films on the aesthetically challenged
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