Wednesday 12th November 2025

Culture

Down the rabbit hole: illustrating ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has long proved an endless source of inspiration to illustrators. Hundreds of artists have illuminated Lewis Carroll’s vision, with many viewing it as the crowning...

The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

While watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025) a few weeks ago,...

Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!

Film festivals often get a bad rep. We’ve all heard the stereotype before: they...

On the edge of honesty: ‘The Man Who Turned into a Stick’

To rehearse and perform an entire student production before the second week of Michaelmas...

Review: King Charles – LoveBlood

Olivia Stiles thinks she may have found the soundtrack to the summer in King Charles' LoveBlood

Review: Ren Harvieu – Through the Night

Patrick Scott finds Ren Harvieu to have come back from injury to deliver an album that feels free while maintaining its classic touches

Interview: Dry the River

Olivia Arigho Stiles talks neo folk and religion with Dry the River

Are you a creative writer?

Viccy Ibbett surveys a few of the opportunities available to creative writers in Oxford.

More Short Stories…

Two rich and powerful short stories by Anahita Hoose

Short Stories….

A trio of short stories by Calypso Blaj, Failed Novelist extraordinaire.

A Bluffer’s Guide to: George Bernard Shaw

Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate talks you through the great socialist writer

Review: Killing Hitler

Despite a patchy production, Angus Hawkins is impressed by a fascinating story

Settling the Score

Christy Edwall talks with Dario Marianelli about the art of composition

A Bluffer’s Guide to: The New Wave of Hip Hop

Matt Jones walks you through some of the biggest names in the latest resurgence of US hip hop

Album Review: Europe – Allo Darlin’

Tom Hoskins finds that Allo Darlin' balances pain with euphoria to good effect

Review: The Tempest, Magdalen

Constantine Fraser laments the rain, as a high-spirited production of The Tempest is forced inside

Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Brasenose

Rosalee Edwards feels the fourth wall slipping away in front of her in this enthralling production

Review: Court, BT Studio Theatre

Tommo Fowler is instructed to call this piece of new writing 'meta theatre; mental theatre'

Review: Oxford Folk Weekend

Susan Yu finds Oxford Folk Weekend to be on good form

Preview: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Angus Hawkins highly recommends this outstanding production

Welcome to Wadstock

Cherwell spends the weekend at Oxford's favourite festival

Seeing a man about a dog

Christy Edwall speaks to author Mark Haddon about what comes after a bestseller

Oxford Oddities #3 – Univ

Viccy Ibbett explores the history of our colleges to discover eccentric artistic personalities, delving into Univ's past

A Bluffers’ Guide to: Anton Chekhov

Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate talks you through the Russian literary genius

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