Friday 2nd January 2026

Culture

‘The political is also political’: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Minority Rule’

Universities have often been seen as bastions of radicalism. Forgetting the fact that higher educational institutions, particularly ancient and elite ones in the Anglophone world, are governed by centuries...

Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed

Boulevard Productions’ Circle Mirror Transformation is a faithful and competent take on Annie Baker’s...

‘We’re all mad here’: Alice in Won-DRE-Land at Tingewick 2025

When I wandered into Tingewick Hall on a cold, dark evening in seventh week,...

A comical approach to a classic text: ‘Hedda Gabler’ reviewed

Tiptoe Productions’ Hedda Gabler, co-directed by Ollie Gillam and Gilon Fox, delivered a strong...

National Treasure

Annabel James spends some quality time in the Ashmolean Print Room, one of Oxford’s hidden gems

An Elegynt Spectacle

Jamie Randall peers into the world of Ibsen

Cherwell Stage: why bother?

Taxi for A Streetcar Named Desire: Oliver Moody explains what it is that student critics do and why Cherwell previews plays

Review: Mansfield Open Mic Night

Josephine Sarchet heads with an open mind to Mansfield's open mic

Embrace your naked ambition

Rachel Coombes on how to get involved in Oxford’s art scene

Review: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West

Joseph Lloyd understands Kanye West's vocals to be saying 'I was the abomination of Obama's nation'

The hype being heaped on Imogen Heap

Matthew Shribman talks to singer, songwriter, composer, conductor, filmmaker and earth-lover Imogen Heap

Review: Destabilise by Enter Shikari

Oliver Moody enters Shikari

The New Hollywood?

Olivia Hanson gives a first-hand view of Bollywood in India.

Cherwell photo blog – 5th Week (blues)

Beat the blues by checking out our incredible photo blog...

Armistice Day Blues

A review of the O'Reilly's 5th week show, Journey's End

Two people without a story?

William Hooper applauds everything about the BT’s latest new writing show ‘Just Two People’ - everything, that is, except the script

Hit me baby one more time

Oliver Moody is stupefied by a brilliant production of ‘Taking Care of Baby’

Let me out

Jane Brik-Nimby is bored by a pointless remake of a Swedish classic

Another year, another classic

Ben Kirby reviews Mike Leigh's new movie, Another Year, and is almost stunned into silence by the shock of the ordinary

If you can’t Beat them, join them

The birth of a generation: Jamie Randall introduces the rhyme and grime of the legendary post-war group of beat poets

The great American grovel

As the midterm elections reveal a crisis of confidence in the US, Cherwell Books looks at the REM cycles of the American dream

Review: Small Craft On A Milk Sea – Brian Eno

‘Each track evokes a shifting cinematic landscape’, says Alex Dudok de Wit

Back on track with Annie Mac

Evie Deavall discusses Britain’s sound of 2010 with the biggest Mac this side of fast food stores

Interview: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Claire Castles has a plucking good chat with the world's most famous Ukulele players

Follow us