Wednesday 22nd April 2026

Culture

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by the Merseyside-based violinist Samuel Oliver-Sherry, a current third year music student at St Anne’s College....
Culture Evelyn Lambert -

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.
Culture Hattie Simpson -

‘People are so hungry to create together’: Lisa Ko on going analogue, crafting, and writing the future

It’s 11:02am in New York when Lisa Ko appears on the video call. In Oxford, the sun is almost down.
Books Abigail Lakeland -

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 -
Latest

Review: The Effect

Anna Zanetti reviews The Effect at the Keble O'Reilly

Review: Bitter Lake

Bitter Lake is a robust critique of modern geopolitics, writes Kyran Schmidt

Review: Mortdecai

Sam Joyce thinks that Mortdecai is another nail in the coffin of Johnny Depp’s career

Preview: The George and Dragon

Katherine Cowles previews this new student show ahead of its run at The Burton Taylor

Anti-celebrity rules OK. Long live Baldwin.

Ollie Johnson examines the hypocrisy of the famous rejecting fame

Milestones: Bowling for Columbine

Fergus Morgan reflects on Michael Moore's seminal examination of America's gun problem

Secrets of Venice

Nathan Stazicker shows us a path less travelled through Venice

Bali’s Beauty

Emma Snashall takes us through the backstreets of Bali in this series of stunning photos

Monumental art: Donatello’s St George

Anna Zanetti highlights one of art’s great masterpieces

Loading the Canon: When God Looked the Other Way

Iweta Kalinowska calls for the addition of Wesley Adamczyk’s personal tale of suffering to the literary establishment

Yvonne Owuor: sometimes people are places too

Paul Ostwald talks to the leading Kenyan writer about her novel 'Dust' and her country’s voice

Review: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Fay Watson reviews this darkly comic David Foster Wallace adaptation

Review: Dido and Aeneas – A St Peter’s success story

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull finds St Peter's College's production of Purcell's Baroque opera a raging success

Where Are They Now?: Blazin’ Squad

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to

Review: Meghan Trainor – Title

Lata Nobes is less than impressive by this popstar's debut

Review: Rae Morris – Unguarded

Rachael Griffith gives the seal of approval to Rae Morris's debut album

"Good people, good drinkers and no bigots"

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull talks to Gareth Campesinos!, Los Campesinos!'s frontman

Preview: Dido and Aeneas

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull previews a newly produced student opera

Preview: Music for Madagascar

Felix Klos gives you a taster of what to expect at this Saturday's jazz concert for charity, featuring Dot's Funk Odyssey, The Oxford Gargoyles and The New Men

Review: Potosí

Fergus Morgan is charmed by this innocent, amusing and quintessentially human piece of student writing
1...188189190...347Page 189 of 347

Follow us

Support Student Journalism

Cherwell is Oxford’s oldest independent newspaper, established in 1920. We are entirely student-run. By supporting us, you will contribute to keeping our paper in print and online. Every donation makes a difference.

Donate

Explore

Follow us

More

Oxford Student Publications Limited © 2025 - All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy

Website by Jamie Ashley