Wednesday 18th March 2026

Culture

How 2025’s biggest films made their mark through music

The recent Oscar nominations have allowed us to reflect on how fundamental musical scores are to film, and the highlights of last year’s film soundtracks.
Culture Ruaridh McEwen -

Translating Oxford into Urdu

It’s a different emotion whenever I read the Urdu language. I’m not a native speaker, nor have I actively pursued learning the language, but as someone who finds solace in reading shayari (Urdu poetry), I wanted to follow it even in Oxford.
Books Manya Singh -

Stitching the world together: GFC’s London Fashion Week show

A few weeks ago we, the Cherwell fashion editors, were lucky enough to be extended an invite by the Global Fashion Collective to their London Fashion Week show.
Culture Cherwell Fashion -

Seeped in nostalgia: ‘Things I Know To Be True’ reviewed

Lighthouse Productions' 'Things I Know to Be True' had high expectations to meet. Put frankly, they nailed it.
Culture Charlie Bailey -
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Review: Pripyat

Alex Barasch is impressed by both the performers and playwright of this important piece of new writing

The two parts of a poet’s whole

Emily Beswick explores the duality of the self in Sarah Howe’s collection of poems, Loop of Jade

Rewind: Jean Rhys

Samantha Phey looks back on the anniversary of the death of Jean Rhys

“I was a part of him, nothing more”

Simran Uppal finds inspiration in the recollection of his grandfather’s stories about Jalandhar, India

Review: Le Petit Prince

Alex Barasch is charmed by this adaptation of Saint-Exupéry’s classic novel

Common People, an Uncommon Stage

Ellen Peirson-Hagger discusses the diversity of Oxford music at Common People Festival

Spotlight: Hip-Hop Histories

Alex Barasch appreciates the unlikely union of Shakespeare and hip-hop

What’s going on in Abu Dhabi?

Richard Birch stops to consider his surroundings in a place of unadulterated senselessness

Review: the End of the Affair

Benn Sheridan finds just a bit too much God in this lesser known love story by Graham Greene

Backstage: Doctor Faustus

Alex Barasch talks to Cai Jauncey about direction and design

Preview: Me & Mike

Surya Bowyer is impressed to find a play that stands out amidst Oxford's otherwise mediocre new writing

Live review: We Are Scientists

Calum Bradshaw queued, laughed, and moshed at Bristol Bierkeller

“David Cameron, you wanker!”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger discusses fandom and arts funding with Wolf Alice’s Joff and Joel

A Beginner’s Guide to… Kikagaku Moyo

Richard Birch explores the curious output of Kikagaku Moyo

The changing times of pop music

Thomas Athey examines the commercialisation of creativity

Review: Eye In The Sky – a warning about the costs of war

Apart from the climax, Rickman’s final film doesn’t have much ‘thrill’ for a thriller, writes Alistair Badenoch

‘You’ve not read this article?’

Markus Beeken lashes out against literary snobbery

Review: The Weir

There is a certain type of absolute silence that only comes with good storytelling – it is the silence of held breath, of absolute...

A dichotomy as old as time

Rabindranath Tagore’s timeless novel The Home and the World is perhaps the most underrated work in Indian literature. Published in 1916 in the febrile...

Interview: We Are Scientists

Daniel Curtis got the lowdown on touring, synths and songwriting
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