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: ‘Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing’
Ella Sands reviews 'Initiate', the first anthology of work by graduates of Oxford's MSt in Creative Studies
Mastering creative writing
Tom Cutterham and Ella Sands talk to Dr Clare Morgan, director of Oxford's MSt in Creative Writing, about how the course has been instrumental in encouraging students to start writing more than just essays
Review: The Pigeon Detectives Live
Penny Sarchet reviews the Oxford leg of the Pigeon Detectives' comeback tour following the recent release of their new album, 'Up, Guards And At 'Em!'
Cherwell Abroad: Paris
Cherwell visits the Musée d'Orsay on Paris' Left Bank
Cherwell Abroad: Rome
Cherwell takes a look around the Borghese Gallery
Review: Colin Stetson – ‘New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges’
Simon Torracinta reviews Colin Stetson's mind-bending solo album
Review: Metamorphoses – Fables from Ovid
Rebecca Tatlow finds this modern adaptation of Ovid surprisingly faithful to the original
Rave in the nave
Marques Toliver and Lianne La Havas play St Giles in the Fields Church
Review: Nicholas Ostler at the Oxford Literary Festival
Rebecca Tatlow hears Nicholas Ostler talk about his new book, \'The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel\'
Review: The Strokes – ’Angles’
Patrick Scott explains why The Strokes just aren\'t cutting the right shapes and Angles with their latest album
Review: Submarine
Jacob Williamson weighs up Richard Ayoade's directorial debut
Panic on the streets of London
Marcin Plonka risks it all to capture last Saturday's demonstration from the front line of the breakaway group
Review: Cause Celebre
Francesca Wade finds cause for celebration in this revival of Rattigan's final play
Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Taylor
Students, peers and critics remember Taylor\'s life-long contribution to Oxford theatre
