Culture
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 few intelligent and readable things left in those outlets, has produced an excellent account of...
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,...
The Conservative Effect, 2010-2024 review: “Comprehensive and damning”
If you only read one book on British politics this year, make it this one.
Painting the moment
Cherwell meets painter Clova Stuart-Hamilton to discuss Oxford Art Weeks, painting Calpol, and ‘in the moment-ness’
A right repentant madam
May Anderson is entertained by The City Madam
Review: Smother
Wild Beasts return with a cleaner, more atmospheric album
Papa Loach… and son
Cherwell takes a look at Ken Loach in the wake of the directorial debut of his son, Jim
Review: The Rover
Fiamma Mazzocchi Alemanni is wooed by Restoration comedy, The Rover
Review: She Was Yellow
May Anderson is provoked by a five-star production of a stunning piece of new writing
Review: Beastly
This revisiting of Beauty and the Beast set in high school makes The Twilight Saga look like a masterpiece
Review: The Miners’ Hymns
Jóhann Jóhannsson delivers an avant-garde concept album inspired by the miners of North East England
The Icelander at the coalface
En Liang Khong talks to Jóhann Jóhannsson about failed utopias and his new album, The Miners’ Hymns
Review: DNA
This play about a group of teenagers trying to escape the consequences of their actions is put on as part of Catz Arts Week, 25-28 May
Review: Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet's tale of capitalism and its vices is on at Keble O’Reilly, 25-28 May
Review: The Government Inspector
May Anderson is delighted by a farcical piece of outdoor theatre
Derelict in Menfi
Will Granger captures the atmosphere of a derelict Menfi in Sicily
Week In Pictures (3)
Kathleen Bloomfield captures Oxford's beautiful countryside
