• Oxford News
    • Interviews
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
    • Across the Aisle
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Diaries of a Thought Son
    • (Dis)abled
    • Not Just A Stereotype
    • Words of a Multiple
  • Environment
  • Sports
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
    • Internet Culture
  • The Blueprint
  • Lifestyle
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • Love Comes out of The Blue
  • Columns
    • Wine Waffle
    • Beyond the Bubble
    • Love Letters
    • Musings of a Media Lover
    • Beyond the Footnotes
    • Heal Between the Lines
    • Admissions of a Rusticated Student
    • Objectifying Oxford
    • SaTired: Observations of a Finalist
    • Your College Auntie
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Freshers’ Guides
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2024
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2023
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2022
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2021
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • 5 Years of The Blue
  • Alumni – can you help us?
  • Instagram
  • Facebook Page
  • Linkedin
Skip to content
  • Instagram
  • Facebook Page
  • Linkedin
The Oxford Blue

The Oxford Blue

Oxford University's independent newspaper | A new voice for a new decade | Est. 2020..

  • Oxford News
    • Interviews
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
    • Across the Aisle
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Diaries of a Thought Son
    • (Dis)abled
    • Not Just A Stereotype
    • Words of a Multiple
  • Environment
  • Sports
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
    • Internet Culture
  • The Blueprint
  • Lifestyle
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • Love Comes out of The Blue
  • Columns
    • Wine Waffle
    • Beyond the Bubble
    • Love Letters
    • Musings of a Media Lover
    • Beyond the Footnotes
    • Heal Between the Lines
    • Admissions of a Rusticated Student
    • Objectifying Oxford
    • SaTired: Observations of a Finalist
    • Your College Auntie
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Freshers’ Guides
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2024
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2023
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2022
    • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2021
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • 5 Years of The Blue
  • Alumni – can you help us?

Category: Literature

Posted inCulture

Poetry in The Age of Nostalgia

by Alice State April 11, 2023April 12, 2023
Posted inCulture, Literature, The Books That Made Me

Books That Made Me: Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods

by Charlie Bowden April 10, 2023April 10, 2023
Posted inCulture

Books That Made Me: Half the Sky

by Eleanor Luxton March 9, 2023March 9, 2023
Posted inCulture

Benjamín Labatut: When We Cease to Understand the World

by Niamh Worthy March 6, 2023March 6, 2023
Posted inCulture, Literature

On Opening Lines and Possibilities

by Liberty Brignall March 5, 2023March 5, 2023
Posted inLiterature

The Best Literary Friendships and What We Can Learn from Them

by Abigail Stevens February 22, 2023February 22, 2023
Posted inCulture

Unprintable: Poetry in Public

by Jessica Mason January 19, 2023January 19, 2023
Posted inCulture

Reflections on Michaelmas

by Liberty Brignall December 21, 2022December 21, 2022
Posted inLifestyle

Love in Literature

by Alice Clara State November 29, 2022November 29, 2022
Posted inCulture

Books That Made Me: To the Lighthouse

by Liberty Brignall November 24, 2022

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 18 Older posts

Popular Posts

  • Provided by Honcques Laus, used with permission
    The Oxford History of Donations and the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
  • Hands holding a phone, clicking on the TikTok app icon
    TikTok and the Death of the Attention Span 
  • An indoor rock climbing gym.
    Why does everyone suddenly want to rock climb?
  • Christmas: The Environmental Impacts
  • ENRON Review: A Riveting Tale of Corporate Greed
  • Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut!: A Guide to “Keeping it Casual”
  • “Music today is worse than it was in the past”: The Debate
  • Holding Sylvia Plath accountable
  • Image of the dome of the Radcliffe Camera, against a dark blue sky
    Radcliffe Camera: Studying or Staging?
  • My experience as a high-class student escort in Oxford

A Camera Roll in Language

Ruby Sampson Nov 20, 2025 3 min read
Photo of a woman using a phone and a laptop.

“For me, the notes app is a psychological tool. It is a way of mediating thought and reality, condensing messy webs of perception into their…

Lost for Words: Storytelling As The Solution To Oracy?

Laurence Britton Nov 19, 2025 9 min read
Provided by Laurence Britton, used with permission

When was the last time someone told you a story?  I mean, truly told you a story – not using a book as a crutch,…

Rooted and Restless: Eco-Anxiety and the Inheritance of a Collapsing Earth

Ava Doherty Nov 19, 2025 5 min read
A photo of a magpie sitting in a tree, surrounded by foliage.

As climate systems collapse, biodiversity vanishes, and the seasons turn strange, the rising anxiety among young people isn’t a disorder. It is a diagnosis.

Rare Aesthetic: getting your first essay back and realising you kind of suck

Téa Sand Nov 19, 2025 5 min read
An image of the Radcliffe Camera against a blue sky

“I threw in as much secondary criticism as I could find, hoping desperately that Derrida and Calvino could drown out my voice, or lack thereof.”…

© 2025 The Oxford Blue Student Newspaper CIC | A new voice for a new decade | Est. 2020. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
  • Instagram
  • Facebook Page
  • Linkedin
Go to mobile version