Culture

How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be out of reach tomorrow. You might believe book banning to be a thing of the...

The burden of the face: Why are so many singers wearing masks?

We can all name at least one musician who has performed behind a balaclava, helmet, or hood. Whether to preserve anonymity, cultivate mystery, or construct an entirely new artistic identity, masking the face is common among those under the limelight.

New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the...

“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...

Review: Don Juan in Soho

OFS, Tuesday- Saturday 4th Week

To shout or not to shout?

Cherwell asks (or rather rants about) the inevitable question...

The World’s A Stage: Buenos Aires

This week Cherwell finds poverty a spur to dramatic innovation in Argentina

Snow Patrol: A Hundred Million Suns

Snow Patrol's new album is a good effort, but a lot could have been done better...

Belle and Sebastian: The BBC Sessions

Can Belle and Sebastian crack the curse of the live album?

Genre Confused: Dubstep

This week, we look at the dubstep phenomenon

A success 700 years in the making

Joseph Weir gets folked up with the uniquely brilliant Bellowhead

Brolin’s Bush Stone’s Throw From Truth

We review Oliver Stone's new biopic

Picture Politics

Do politics have a place in the cinema?

Easy Virtue

We review the swinging new Noel Coward adaptation.

Perfect Vision

We get a good look at Oxford's telescope exhibition

All Stiles, no substance

Jenny Vass reviews Kieran Stiles' new exhibition.

Poetry in Motion

Andrew Motion's 'Ways of Life'

Book Review: Winter In Madrid

CJ Sansom, Pan Books, £7.99

Book Review: Musicophilia

Oliver Sacks, Picador, £8.99

Blasphemy: On The Road

This week, Cherwell gets angry about the Jack Kerouac 'classic'

The World’s A Stage: Cairo

Cherwell witnesses some unusual interpretations of Shakespeare...

Review: Endgame

Keble O'Reilley, Tuesday - Saturday 4th week

Review: Richard III

OFS Studio, Tuesday - Saturday 4th week

Review: A Few Good Men

Oxford Playhouse, Wednesday - Saturday, 4th Week

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