Tuesday 12th May 2026

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Internet Babies: Students of Subculture

There’s a certain kind of artist that I keep coming back to lately: artists who seem to know exactly what I want to hear before I do. Not algorithmically,...
Music Sharon Wilson -

May Morning

Smudged mascara and the curling of coffee steam. Small yawns and the shuffling of...
Culture Elizabeth Bourn -

Sunday

That Sunday could arrive first-class, Wrapped in tissue and stickers with minimalist logo. Sent anonymously (from...
The Source Rory Maguire -

Hail Agnes full of grace: ‘Hamnet’ and the perfect mother figure

Buckley swept this year’s award season for her performance as Agnes in Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell book of the same name.
Culture Ruya Oral -
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Christmas Crackers: Your Yuletide Cinema Guide!

The three wise men aren't the only ones who come bearing gifts this Christmas, Cherwell Film&TV brings you the best of Cinema for the coming weeks!

Typewriters at Dawn

Nina Black looks at literary feuds from Hemingway to Heller

The British Comedy Awards 2012: blasts from the past

Alexandra Sutton wonders whether this really is as good as we've got

Review: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (North Wall)

Thomas Brookes sees evidence of misplaced genie-us

Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Nick Hilton is simultaneously impressed and frustrated with Peter Jackson's dense vision of The Hobbit

A Year in an Instant

Amy Rollason shares seasonal snapshots from her favourite spots

Review: Uno, Dos, Tre (Green Day)

Marc Pacitti puts the knife into the ageing punks' latest offering.

Review: Peep Show

Peep Show aficionado Tom Beardsworth reviews the first half of Series 8

Review: Great Expectations

Georgina Pollard's expectations were exceeded by this adaptation of a great masterpiece

Guide to Christmas music: 2012

Luke Barratt examines this year’s Christmas offerings, which vary severely in quality

Review: Carmen (ENO)

Finola Austin reviews a production that flirts with controversy yet lacks full conviction.

Review: Liz & Dick

Cherwell FIlm and TV confronts the Mutant Biopic of Elindsabeth Taylohan

Life on the Great Island

It might be cold outside, but Emily Hislop escapes the English winter by taking us to sunny summertime Crete.

Review: Dancing on the Frontier

Tom Beardsworth reviews Oxford student Nico Hobhouse's first travel novel, 'Dancing on the Frontier: Travels by Land through China and Tibet'

Review: The Maids

Potently and unnervingly close to the skin, Genet’s strange tale of Solange and Claire proves an indubitable dramatic success.

A Choral Christmas: A Review of Advent at Merton

Katy Wright enjoys Merton choir's latest offering.

Review: Gambit

Georgina Pollard isn't overly impressed with this Coen brothers scripted comedy

Review: Amahl and the Night Visitors

Rachel Savage is left enchanted and a little emotional by Lincoln Music Society's Christmassy opera

Live Review: Holywell Music Room

Alex Chalk enjoys four inventive guitarists.

Preview: Henry VI

Alexander Wilson highly anticipates this adaptation of a trilogy
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