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How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be out of reach tomorrow. You might believe book banning to be a thing of the...

The burden of the face: Why are so many singers wearing masks?

We can all name at least one musician who has performed behind a balaclava, helmet, or hood. Whether to preserve anonymity, cultivate mystery, or construct an entirely new artistic identity, masking the face is common among those under the limelight.

New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the...

“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...

Pyrotechnics, Smoke and Mirrors

Matt Roberts is exciting for a Phantom of the Opera packed full of wizardry

William Shakespeare and the year of Lear

Timothy Wade finds James Shapiro overestimates the Bard

Is This Art? The X Factor

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 strays into the realms of performance art and takes on the X factor

Profile: Katie Hopkins

Akshay Bilolikar discusses Oxford, offensiveness and the Oscars with Katie Hopkins

Rewind: Ezra Pound

Bex Watson rewinds to Ezra Pound and is a tad guilty for liking him so much

Culture Corner: The Lobster

Rachael Kitson enjoys the squeaky clean cuteness of forbidden love

Slang: social ill or work of art?

Sarah Lynch scours away our inhibitions about the underside of language.

The Farm and the Container Store

Lael Hines invokes Christmas trees, containers and metal rods to create an alternative short story

A disturbing hymn for your weekend

Simran Uppal on the connotations of Coldplay's new music video

No matter the venue,“I just like to play”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to folk singer Ryley Walker

Curating Oxford’s best musicians

The founders of Vulture Sessions discuss their plans for the future with Sophie Jordan

Review: Public Memory — Wuthering Drum

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is seduced by Public Memory's gritty electronica album

An odorous tone of graveness

Surya Bowyer has some qualms about the O'Reilly's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Review: The Fusion Project

Nihaar Shah is impressed by the virtuosity and skill of The Fusion Project

Interview: Amadeus

Alec Fullerton speaks to Lata Nobes, Artistic Director of Amadeus

Review: Constellations

Ellie Siora reflects on two actors and an infinity of loves

My Life on the Road

Sarah Lynch reviews Gloria Steinem’s new book

Picasso: Formalistic or Contextual?

Emmanuelle Soffe explores Picasso’s ‘Massacre in Korea’ with a formalist eye

Is This Art? Plate Convergences

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Anna Zanetti analyses the work of Theaster Gates

Review: Thark

Ben Ray is captivated by this innovative take on a little known 1920s farce

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