Monday 18th August 2025

Culture

HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only proves that point. HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL, created by Chicago-based comedian Brendan Tran, pays...

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,...

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...

5 Things I Would Rather Do Than Read Rilke

As it has reached the time at which all linguists start next term's reading list, Naomi Gee ponders the many joys of reading Rilke.

Top 10 albums of 2015

An (un)official guide to the albums that should have been gracing your turntable this year

Fairy tale of the empty village

Simran Uppal gives us pause for thought this Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas I guess

The Culture team wish you a very tepid Christmas

Have yourself a Dickensian little Christmas

Amidst this period of festive chaos, Charlie Willis discusses the enduring, seasonal importance of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'

Review — Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Ollie Johnson sheds light on the burdens and expectations placed upon the latest film in the Star Wars franchise

Is This Art? The Selfie

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art and Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. Today Naomi Gee takes on the Selfie

Twas the night before Christmas

Naomi Gee offers a poetical parody of the Oxford work ethic

11 ways Oxford is a little bit like Star Wars

Film & TV take a look at some of the striking, and not so striking, similarities between Oxford and Star Wars

Out of the Blue Christmas cover: a playful wonder

Oxford's all-male a cappella group go all-out in their video for 'Santa Baby'

Female country singers: The voices we need to hear

Emily Beswick advocates the home-grown lyrics of female country stars

On Speaking Together

Theophilus Kwek reflects on a term of collaborations at the Oxford University Poetry Society

Top 10 Christmas cover songs

Ellen Peirson-Hagger picks out the best ten Christmas covers to liven up your festive playlist

Escher and the contradiction

Mark Barclay surveys the first ever Escher retrospective

The Death Of Art?: Turner Prize nominees 2015

An analysis of the 2015 Turner prize nominees and its increasingly tenuous definition of art.

Have you read the book yet?

Charlie Willis tiptoes over the social minefield of festive book-giving

Review: Bridge of Spies

Freddie Hopkinson reviews Steven Spielberg's latest film

Taking a journey with ‘Dart’

Ben Ray is swept away by the performance of this epic poem

Proximity: Review

Cherwell has a convert to contemporary dance

Oxford Revue XMAS party Review

Questionable postmodernity abound...

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