Monday 10th November 2025

Culture

Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!

Film festivals often get a bad rep. We’ve all heard the stereotype before: they are elitist and out of touch, filled with arrogant critics watching the most obscure of...

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...

Erotic suspense and trickery: ‘Twelfth Night’ at St Hugh’s 

Lovers mismatched, siblings detached, and plans of trickery hatched: it is the time of...

Sin and nectar: Behind the scenes of ‘Women Beware Women’

I arrived at a rehearsal of Women Beware Women and found Hippolito (Kit Parsons)...

Death of an art form?

James Maloney tells us why album art is not a thing of the past

Out of the frying pan

James Maloney chats to Hot Chip's Joe Goddard about the band's new album, their school days... and fire

What you’ve been missing

A new column introducing you to little-known or underrated art-forms. This week: contemporary Arabic poetry

Earth: Art of a changing world

A major collaboration at the Royal Academy taking a conceptual look at the climate change issue.

Squaring the vicious circle

Our Books Editor reviews Eugene Rogan's impressive 'Arabs a History'

Squaring the vicious circle HRSP

Our Books Editor reviews Eugene Rogan's impressive 'Arabs a History'

Drama Briefing

Our regular bulletin giving you the lowdown on jobs, plays, workshops and other dramatic titbits.

Toying with our emotions

Cherwell finds that behind the merry title lies a disturbing show

Hilary’s dramatic highlights

Our Stage Editor takes a look at what's on stage this term.

35 years since: Blood on the Tracks

Alistair Smout takes a look back at one of Bob Dylan's most enduring musical achievements

Video: The Magic Toyshop

A rapid look at the upcoming Playhouse show

Review: The Road

Admirable, but can never quite follow in the novel's footsteps.

Review: Daybreakers

It should never have seen the light of day

Top 10: Marketing Managers

These people are Oxford's answer to Maurice Saatchi

Review: Ed Ruscha – Fifty Years of Painting

Annabel James visits the retrospective of one of the most influential and pioneering American artists

Review: Sherlock Holmes

A reworking that actually works

A Decade in Music

Cherwell's Music Editors pick the best albums of the noughties

Book Review: Wolf Hall

Our Books Editor is underwhelmed by this year's Man Booker Prize winner

Interview: Lucy Caldwell

The award-winning playwright talks about the beginnings of her career

Review: Turner Prize 2009

Annabel James explores this year's entrees to the ever controversial Prize

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