Culture
Nailed it! The evolution of nail art at our fingertips.
Nail art has truly taken the world by storm. With over 233 million people sharing their designs with #nails on Instagram, it is clear that this is not just...
Rags to riches: unravelling the stitched up class divide in fashion
Fashion trends come and go as quickly as the seasons change, but is the...
Frank Auerbach’s Charcoal Portraits review: Self-Portrait of a Stranger
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition, The Charcoal Heads, shows the early career of Frank Auerbach...
The Oxford Revue: A Room with Revue
'a simple and clever production which ranks as one of the most enjoyable shows I've seen all year'
Mistakes and Markers of Time
"It's very easy to criticise and cringe at old pictures of yourself, wondering how your mum ever let you leave the house in your most treasured white ripped ‘joni jeans’"
Between Love and Hate: The Strokes’ Guide to Staying Together
'US-based pop-rock band The Strokes have encountered just about all of rock’s common killers. And yet, 22 years on from their first album, they are still here – and reportedly working on a seventh.'
The White Stuff and its Discontents
'Increasingly, then, the heritage bequeathed to us in these museums is not just trapped in glass, but also in a host of moralising, ‘problematising’ and, ultimately, infantilising, narratives that are in their nature more political than educational.'
‘Ornamented choral what?’ – your favourite early sacred music like you’ve never heard it before
'What is ‘polyphony’? I hear you cry. Why is it ‘choral’ and what makes it ‘ornamented’?'
‘Kitchens, Drag Racing, and The Cure’ – boygenius, ‘the record’ album review
'Since its release in January 2023, boygenius’ the record has collected perfect scores from DIY, NME, and Rolling Stone, setting the band up for The Tour this summer and landing them a set at this month’s Coachella.'
The Identity Crisis of Everything Everywhere All At Once
'In an alternate universe, you are not an Oxford student reading Cherwell. In another alternate universe, you are a pinata hanging from a tree. In yet another alternate universe, you have hot dogs for fingers.'
Art Behind Bars: The Jazz Album Born On Death Row
'I write and recite these words on January the 2nd 2022, less than two years away from my proposed execution, which is scheduled to take place on November the 16th 2023.'
Female Rage: Too normal to be so rare
'A quick glance at the TikTok search results for ‘female rage’ tells a very interesting story - women, shouting and expressing their anger without shame, presented as though this is something shocking.'
‘Women, Scorned’: Exploring Feminine Rage in Art
'Feminine rage is all the rage. It’s everywhere.'
Review: A Poet and A Scholar.
'The audience of Kian Moghaddas’ A Poet and a Scholar was in hysterics pretty much the entire way through.'
The Super Mario Bros. Movie – A review
'This movie will make you feel like you’re sitting back at whichever Nintendo console you first met that little, moustached man.'
Normalising transgression: A review of Joyland.
'In Joyland, queerness becomes banal, and patriarchy is revealed to be futile.'
Is That an Angel? No, it’s Maisie Peters – Tour Review
'The Good Witch, embarking upon her first headlining tour, has brewed up a concoction of heartbreak and hope, insecurity and exuberance'
Why the USA won’t win the World Cup
Since their Olympic bronze medal in Tokyo 2020, there have been questions as to whether their long reign at the top is coming to an end.
St Stephen’s House – an almost love letter to the PGCE “Party college”
At the age of about 12, I saw a priest smoking a cigarette around the back of a church and knew from the look...
