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 -

Culture Corner: Lady Gaga

Priya Khaira-Hanks shouts back at the sanitisation of rape culture

Is This Art? Lynton Crosby

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Naomi Gee takes on Lynton Crosby

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 6

This week Miriam Gordis explores the concept of paradise

The Art of Our Time

Surya Bowyer looks at Pembroke College’s new exhibition

Preview: The Marriage of Kim K

A post-modern adaptation of the classic comic opera

Review: The Somme Battlefield — The top 20 places to visit

Caitlin Law reviews Ruaraidh Adams-Cairns battlefield guide and explores the Somme from a personal angle

InstaUgly: behind the beauty

Rachel Evans discusses the darker side of Instagram, and where it leads us

The reprobate we love to loathe

Alexander Walker looks at Hunter S Thompson and the dirty honesty of gonzo journalism

Review: Sarah Blasko – Eternal Return

Sophie Jordan is far from thrilled by Sarah Blasko's love-centred new album

Review: Tame Impala at Ally Pally

Alex Oscroft witnesses a trippy, yet not wholly ambitious, set from the psych-rockers

“It has to do with air molecules and shit”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks gig etiquette with Aidan Knight

Small festivals attracting big names

Daniel Curtis considers this summer's festival offerings

"Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right?"

Shami Chakrabarti, once dubbed ‘the most dangerous woman in Britain’, addresses the Oxford Guild about her book, On Liberty

Words here don’t mean what we think they mean

Sam Luker Brown reviews Mercury Fur at the Pilch

Review: Giselle

Sarah Lynch enjoys an oddly costumed evening with the Russian State Ballet

California is Loaded

A Photo Series by Emanuele Biasiol

Common People announces Big Top line-up

The Oxford-based May Bank Holiday weekend festival adds a whole host of acts to its bill

Preview: Mercury Fur

Matt Roberts can't wait for an evening of 'hell on earth'

Spotlight: From Stage to Screen

On the screen success of stage actors

Spotlight: Eliot as playwright

On T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral

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