Monday 27th October 2025

Culture

‘A team of criers’: Behind the scenes of ‘Uncle Vanya’

Nothing makes me more excited about a theatre production than hearing a director talk passionately and intelligently about their chosen text. In a conversation with Cherwell, director Joshua Robey’s...

Grappling with ‘grief that’s half formed’: Your Funeral

“Meeting up with a partner so soon after a breakup is an awkward time...

“NOR GLOM OF NIT?”: ‘Going Postal’ reviewed

“NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR...

On Gravel and Quads: Woolf’s Oxbridge in ‘A Room of One’s Own’

Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own is probably the most important...

Voices from the Past: Virginia Woolf

Cherwell analyses Woolf's views on the power and potential of words in the only recording of her voice

Review: Ex Machina

Anthony Maskell finds novelist Alex Garland's debut to be full of pertinent questions about humans and technology

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 3

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

Milestones: Restoration Comedy

Bethan Roberts reflects on the rise of raunchy theatre following Charles II's return to the throne

From funny to f*cked: is the British sitcom dead?

Jamie Tahsin examines the failing health of this formerly great genre

Freakshow Television

Eve Beere argues that our fascination with voyeuristic TV about others' bodies stems from our sense of superiority to them

Review: American Sniper

Clint Eastwood's latest film is little more than an exercise in wartime propaganda, and it grates

Forget Magna Carta: discover the oldest English law codes

Elliot Langley explores the recently digitised manuscript of the Textus Roffensis

Loading the Canon: Darkness at Noon

Ben Cooke calls for the addition of Arthur Koestler's chilling novel to the literary establishment

“Who are you?” Grayson Perry wants to find out

Alex Peplow reviews Perry’s latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

Preview: The Effect

Mark Barclay previews an upcoming production of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect

Review: The Woman in Black

Fergus Morgan relishes the theatrical subtelty of this classic ghost story

Review: Björk – Vulnicura

Sara Semic is drawn in by the Scandinavian singer-songwriter's avant-garde breakup album

Review: Viet Cong – Viet Cong

Freddy Rendall is pleasantly surprised by the self-titled debut album from the Canadian band

Wot Do u Call It: talking grime with the Originators

Sara Semic chats grime with P Money, Logan Sama and Darq E Freaker at Deep Cover's 'Originators Tour'

Review: Mark Ronson – Uptown Special

Lauren Rofe sings the praises of Ronson's genre-spanning new album

Review: Richard Parker

Emily Holman reviews Poor Players Productions' dark and hilarious new show

Review: What We Did On Our Holiday

Inspired by the BBC's Outnumbered, What We Did On Our Holiday manages to keep to just the right side of soppy, writes Anthony Maskell

Voices from the Past: J. R. R. Tolkien

Hear the 'Lord of the Rings' author speak the lines from his famous poem 'One Ring to Rule Them All'

Walking the Old Ways with Robert MacFarlane

Max Long discusses landscape, people and place with Robert MacFarlane, author of The Old Ways

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