Culture
On Leadership by Tony Blair, Precipice by Robert Harris, and Oxford crime – Books of the Month
On Leadership by Tony Blair; Precipice by Robert Harris; Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order review – “An excellent account”
Dr Edward Howell, whose columns in the Spectator and the Telegraph are among the...
A Revolution Betrayed by Peter Hitchens review – In Defence of Grammar Schools
Review – A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System by Peter...
Veranilda by George Gissing review – The best historical novel never written
George Gissing remains the most underrated novelist in the English language. He wrote twenty-three...
Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – “The prime minister we never had”
This is a marvellous book, a memoir of Rory Stewart’s nine years in Parliament,...
Review: Brian Eno & Rick Holland – Panic Of Looking
Natasha Frost is bored, bothered and bewildered by Brian Eno's latest EP
Review: King Krule – King Krule
Hotly tipped seventeen year old Archy Marshall's debut EP is well received by Natasha Frost
Review: Atlas Sound – Parallax
Jake Hills examines Bradford Cox's latest album under his Atlas Sound moniker, his first full-length release since Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest
Flesh and noise: meeting S.C.U.M.
Isabel de Berrié talks flesh, shoegaze and sleeping rough in Venice with the quintet's Thomas Cohen
The best of 2011
The Cherwell Music team gets their thinking caps on to recommend the best of 2011's releases
Review: The Ides of March
Jacob Williamson is finds the ends justify the means in The Ides of March
A year-full of dollars
Helen Joslin takes a look back over the financial winners of 2011
The Future’s Bright
Sasha O'Connor finds cinematic futurism a little too perfect
Preview : Broken Stars
Emily Fry finds Oxford's latest new writing 'Broken Stars' to be a confusing production of an interesting concept. Broken Stars is on at the Wadham Moser Theatre from Mon-Thurs of 8th Week.
Preview : Kafka’s Dick
Roland Walters enjoys Alan Bennet's phallic play. Kafka's Dick is on in the Burton Taylor in 8th Week
Preview : A Man for all Seasons
A powerful Tudor play, taking place in a fantastic setting, A Man For All Seasons takes place in the University Church in 8th Week.
How to take on the stage blight
Former OUDS Treasurer Aidan Grounds on how Oxford’s drama is managing to blossom despite troubled economic times
Rum, rap and revolución
The stand off between rap artists and the Cuban state has reached its tipping point, writes Rachel Savage
First Night Review : Noughts and Crosses
James Misson is nought convinced by the new performance of Malorie Blackman's Book. Noughts and Crosses is on at the LMH Simpkins Lee theatre Weds - Sat of 7th Week.
