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Author Archives: Alice Brooker

Posted inIdentity

Echo: Managing GAD as a Returning Student

by Alice Brooker December 19, 2024December 19, 2024
Posted inLiterature

“my heart is a church bell but nobody visits”: a Review of Joelle Taylor’s C+nto & Othered Poems

by Alice Brooker July 2, 2024July 2, 2024
Posted inOxford News

“Here to Stay”: New Encampment set up outside Radcliffe Camera

by Alice Brooker and Lottie Newell May 19, 2024May 19, 2024
Posted inOxford News

Gaza Die-In is a “Direct Response to University’s Inaction”

by Alice Brooker May 18, 2024May 18, 2024
Posted inCulture

An Introduction to the Classics: The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

by Alice Brooker October 19, 2023October 19, 2023
Posted inEnvironment

The Hills are (Actually) Alive: Ecocriticism and its Moral Implications

by Alice Brooker October 1, 2023October 23, 2023
Posted inEnvironment

Overwriting Nature? Language’s drive to destruction

by Alice Brooker May 31, 2023May 31, 2023

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