Monday 18th August 2025

Culture

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine, Melbourne, rocks up to London in 1980, writes 'wear makeup everyday' on his New Year's...

St Anne’s goes All-Steinway: A purposeful and bold commitment to music

In a move that lives up to its motto of ‘Consulto et Audacter’ (purposefully...

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much...

Reading Oxford books in Oxford

For those who have not even set foot in Oxford, the city still lives...

Goodbye Sir Terry

Daniel Minister looks back at the career of the late Sir Terry Wogan

Review: This World Lousy

Ben Ray is unimpressed with a show that lives up to its title

Review: pussyfooting

Lucy Clarke unpicks a show that attempts to perform the performance of gender

Review: RENT

Momina Mukhtar is entranced by this no-holds-barred production

Preview: Thark

Ben Ray is quite literally spirited away by this hilarious 1920s haunted house farce

Is This Art?: Empty Lot

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Charlie Willis visits an actual art exhibition at an actual art gallery

A story of homecoming

Johnny Patterson looks at Rembrandt’s ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son’

The endurance of the Queen of Crime

Charlie Atkins ponders what it is about Agatha Christie that we still love

Rewind: Peter Blake & Under Milk Wood

Ben Ray examines the psychedelic darkness of Peter Blake’s Under Milk Wood

Interview: Jon Ronson

Charlie Willis talks shame with the author and journalist Jon Ronson

JD Weaver: Changing perceptions

JD Weaver talks to Sophie Jordan about discrimination in the music industry

Is Pixar Just For Children?

Jack Schofield suggests Pixar is just as much for grown-ups

Review: Mystery Jets – Curve of the Earth

The indie stalwarts' latest release impresses Rushabh Haria

Wall Street Revisited

Tom Barrie feels more left-wing after watching 'The Big Short'

Daughter rocks to fuzzy guitar serenity

Ellen Peirson-Hagger watches the London indie trio descend into a hazy stage mist

Review: The Fastest Clock in the Universe

Beckie Rutherford finds this production a little too 'in-yer-face' for her taste

Review: Field Music – Commontime

Field Music move on to mature indie in their new album

Culture Corner: ‘I Believe in a Thing Called Love’

Bex Watson examines the exquisite artistry of ‘I Believe in a Thing Called Love’, by The Darkness

Maybe darkness ain’t too bad

Thomas Hornigold muses on the human obsession with escaping darkness

Preview: Heavy Petting (Oxford Revue)

Matt Roberts urges you to go and be heavily petted

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