Monday 16th 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.

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.

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.

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.

In Defence of: Cloud Atlas

Anthony Maskell celebrates the Wachowskis' sprawling cross-genre multi-narrative epic

A view from the cheap seat

Lauren Jackson finds a long lost diary...

Preview: The Mercy of Titus

Paul Ostwald discovers the dark side of Mozart's Opera

Preview: Cut the Mustard

Lata Nobes is serenaded at a preview of Revue duo’s madcap offering

Preview: I Nominate

Staging virtual reality

Death Is A Terrible Curse And There Is No Getting Around It

5 Songs to help you forget that you will die one day

Preview: Creditors

How to untangle Strindberg

Comedy Tonight

Bethan Roberts meets the team behind College Comedy Nights

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 2

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Voice’ (1912)

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses Thomas Hardy's poetic masterpiece of love, loss and guilt

Still singing the Blues: Billie Holiday 100 years on

Catherine Kelly discusses the life, legacy and enduring popularity of the first lady of jazz

In Defence of: Romeo + Juliet

Xavier Greenwood defends Baz Lurhmann's hyperactive adaption of the Shakespearean classic

Review: Woman in Gold

Catherine Shafto enjoys this fascinating scenic Austrian sojourn

The rise of the zine: the mouthpiece of modern youth

Morgan Harries discusses why print culture isn't dead, just changing into a more democratic form

Monumental Art: exhibitions at Modern art Oxford

Ruth Spencer Jolly looks at what's on in Oxford's most avant gard gallery

Coloured squares, black pigs and the art of abstraction

Atalanta Xanthe reviews Richard Diebenkorn's retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy

The Ugly Politics of the Silver Screen

Anthony Maskell discusses the negative portrayal of politicians in film and TV

Unpacking the Bodleian libraries

Fintan Calpin reviews Marks of Genius at the Weston Library

Preview: Living Together

Joanna Connolly takes a look at Trinity’s Playhouse show

Mr Spacey’s finest hour?

Michael Burns reviews Spacey’s take on the legendary Clarence Darrow 

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