Columns Archives - Page 15 of 50 - The Oxford Blue

A row of statues, coloured blue, against a background of bricks on a temple.

Things in Jars

by Poppy Thornton April 29, 2024November 2, 2024

The image shows a cream envelope with a small pink heart on the seal. Behind the envelope there is a pink cloud with small pink hearts.

Love Letters: Collections

by Lucy Pollock April 29, 2024April 29, 2024

Student Cooking Hacks: The Victorinox Tomato Slicer

by Elliot Koubis April 26, 2024April 30, 2024

Taking Stock: Between Diasporas, Shopping for Dessert

by Elliot Koubis March 15, 2024March 17, 2024

The image shows a cream envelope with a small pink heart on the seal. Behind the envelope there is a pink cloud with small pink hearts.

Love Letters: Ode to Oxford

by Lucy Pollock March 7, 2024March 6, 2024

This illustration shows an alcove filled with personal items, including a teapot and toy ballerina, with the column’s title ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ in the background

Sublime Drizzlings: Vacation Fear and Trembling

by Chloe Smith March 6, 2024March 6, 2024

Diaries of a Rusticated Student: Ok, Love You, Bye!

by Anonymous Author March 5, 2024December 21, 2025

(Dis)abled

by Ruby Bailey-Proe March 4, 2024March 14, 2024

Diaries of a Rusticated Student: Penultimate

by Anonymous Author March 2, 2024December 21, 2025

This illustration shows an alcove filled with personal items, including a teapot and toy ballerina, with the column’s title ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ in the background

Sublime Drizzlings: Son of a Preacher Man II

by Chloe Smith March 1, 2024March 1, 2024

The Crucible at the Michael Pilch Studio: Reviewed

Astrid Rogers May 29, 2026 7 min read

Crucible cast

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has always been far more than the anti-Red Scare parable it played as when it was first written in 1953. Its…

Cheers & Tears — English & Scottish football seasons come to an end

Thomas Yates May 29, 2026 9 min read

Close-up of football fans celebrating a goal at Wembley Stadium

Spying? In football? Yes, it’s been causing controversy. Meanwhile, the battle against relegation from the Premier League went to the final day, while a fairytale…

Flesh by David Szalay: Reviewed

Rohit Ghosh May 28, 2026 5 min read

Rotting apple core

David Szalay’s Flesh is a rise-and-fall tragedy in the classical tradition, but it is also, in the vein of Illusions perdues andGreat Expectations, a novel…

The Picture of Dorian Gray at Trinity College: Reviewed

Rohit Ghosh May 28, 2026 6 min read

Basil's chair and covered portrait

‘All art is quite useless,’ Oscar Wilde says in his prologue to The Picture of Dorian Gray, yet ‘the only excuse for making a useless…