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Me, My Shelf, and I

by Nina Naidu February 12, 2024February 12, 2024

The illustration depicts a selection of ornaments, including a ballerina, candle, teapot, shell, and other decorative objects. The text ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ can be seen in the background, seemingly a handwritten note.

Sublime Drizzlings: Circling Back to 1908…

by Chloe Smith January 31, 2024February 2, 2024

Nina is Not OK (and nor am I)

by Nina Naidu January 27, 2024May 12, 2024

Tender is the Night

by Ethan McLucas January 23, 2024January 23, 2024

I, a slacker, copied an Academic Machine’s schedule for a week (or so I tried)

by Anonymous Author December 7, 2023April 26, 2025

In Defence of Audiobooks

by Nina Naidu November 17, 2023November 17, 2023

The illustration depicts a selection of ornaments, including a ballerina, candle, teapot, shell, and other decorative objects. The text ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ can be seen in the background, seemingly a handwritten note.

Sublime Drizzlings: One Art

by Chloe Smith October 25, 2023October 20, 2023

Why Do We Tell Stories?

by Emiliano Cruz Villanueva October 14, 2023October 22, 2023

London Bookshop Crawl: Walking, Reading, and Relaxing

by Abigail Stevens May 26, 2023May 26, 2023

Introduction to the Classics: Emma by Jane Austen

by Isabella Hickman April 16, 2023April 16, 2023

Talk of the Gown: The Best Kebab Van in Oxford

Alexis Wood Nov 11, 2025 6 min read

A typical kebab van with a customer standing outside.

“Kebab vans are a crucial part of university and nightlife culture here at Oxford. But which one is the best, what are people’s favourite orders,…

Outside OX1 Week 4: USA, Sudan and Iraq

Elana Roberts Nov 10, 2025 13 min read

Image Credit by Evie Fairclough-Kay

The Editor’s Note Welcome back to this week’s edition of Outside OX1! With term half-way over already, the deadlines are coming through thick and fast…

Luddite Renaissance: Eleven Months with a Dumbphone

Noah Petts Nov 10, 2025 7 min read

A picture of people in a library common room. Everyone is looking at their phones.

“The first days and weeks were like a rebirth. The magnetism of and cravings for my smartphone faded as it lay turned off in a…

Rising and Falling

Ava Doherty Nov 10, 2025 2 min read

Rising and Falling

‘I write when it’s late, when there’s rum on my breath and salt in my hair’. Ava Doherty’s reflection on waves and creation.