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The rise of genre fluidity: Is this the death of genre as we know it?

My favourite genre of music: a question I’ve found becoming increasingly difficult to answer over the years, and it’s only now that I’m discovering why. Whilst we may not...

Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu

"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."

Review: ‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States, and the Middle East 1979-2003’ by Steve Coll

Tyrants should only be brought down by their own people; they become martyrs when brought down by foreigners.

Self-Portrait of a Stranger: A Review of Frank Auerbach’s Charcoal Portraits

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition, The Charcoal Heads, shows the early career of Frank Auerbach...

Post Diagnosis

"You could tell no one, And it would come anyway."

Rekindling a passion for books

Jamie Randall takes on the traditionalists and finds himself E-lated by the prospect of electronic reading

Hie Sir Trevor to a Nunnery?

Carla Neuss anticipates Trevor Nunn’s appointment as an Oxford professor, and then wonders what he actually does

Internet on film

Like The Social Network? It's not the first of its kind

The Social Network

Joshua Rosaler was there at Facebook's foundation, and gives Cherwell the inside story

Review: Come Around Sundown

'Kings of Leon go for a scrappier aesthetic'

The privileges of being a Villager

Matt Walsh talks to Villagers' frontman Conor O'Brien about his song writing and Hermann Hesse

Review: The Social Network

A convincing, witty and devastating portrayal of relationships gone wrong.

Freshers’ guide to Oxford cinemas

A useful guide to Oxford's best places to stuff your face with popcorn.

Fragments from the Fringe

Cherwell Stagents Andrew McCormack, Rimika Solloway and Millie Towsend bring you the thrills and embarrassing spills from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Why we won’t bother to back the Booker

Chris de Beneducci wonders why Britain's foremost literary prize fails to connect with anybody under the age of twenty

‘Murder’ in Christ Church

A behind the scenes look at 'Murder in the Cathedral'

Review: Klavierwerke

Alex Dudok de Wit washes himself in James Blake's progressive fourth EP

Welcome to Rocksford

Alex Dudok de Wit and Matt Walsh load freshers into their musical go-kart for a tour of the city

Interviews: Nigel Cole, Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen

Jenny Glennon speaks to the director & producers of Made in Dagenham

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