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.
Review: Mona & Bea
Rosalind Stone applauds the innovation of Tim Keily's new play
First Night Review: Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Rosalyn Johnston-Flint finds herself in a late 1980s Soho pub, engulfed by an anti-hero's drunken memories
Review: The Nihilists
Drawn in by a love of Wilde, Fiamma Mazzocchi Alemanni investigates the merits of the playwright's first failure
Review: The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek
May Anderson is provoked and challenged by a brave production of Naomi Wallace's haunting play. At the O'Reilly from Wednesday 3rd week.
Review: Starf**ker Reptilians
Simon Torracinta reviews the third effort from this Portland synthpop quartet and discovers the perfect summer soundtrack
Review: Antlers Burst Apart
Simon Torracinta looks at the wonderful parts of Burst Apart
Review: Pygmalion – The Magdalen Garden Show
Rosalind Stone finds that elaborate characterisation is all the sugar-coating an audience needs
The Edgar Wind Society
Joe Funnell introduces the University's new and blooming Art society
First Night Review: Call of the Wild
The Oxford Playhouse goes to the dogs with this masterful student adaptation of Jack London's famous novel
Damian Lewis: Cherwell salutes you
Francesca Wade speaks to the Band of Brothers star about his acting career, his American personality, and the trials and tribulations of the film industry
Review: The Courting of Claire
A ‘gritty kitchen-sink drama’, a comedy of manners, a rom-com and a horror; The Courting of Claire by student playwright Matt Fuller is on at the Burton Taylor in 3rd week
Review: Arcadia
A challenging drama with a bit of bawdy comedy; Tom Stoppard's masterful work delivers a difficult pleasure
The Play of Colour
May Anderson takes part in an intense rehearsal for She was Yellow, coming to the Burton Taylor in 3rd week, and briefly loses the boundary between reality and fiction
Review: Little White Lies
Guillaume Canet fails to depart from the clichéd with a film in which the characters smoke a lot, swear a lot and break things when they get angry, without getting up to much
