• News and Sport
    • Oxford News
    • Sports
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Visiting Students
  • Environment
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
    • Internet Culture
  • Lifestyle
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • E-Lifestyle
    • Spotlight
    • Oxford Collaborations
  • Columns
    • Previous Columns
      • 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
      • Wine Waffle
      • Borders and Belonging
    • InterMEDIAte
    • Risk Appetite
    • Lady Grinning Soul
    • Second Draft
    • Low Concept
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • Alumni – can you help us?
  • The Archive
    • 5 Years of The Blue
    • The Blueprint
    • 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
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook Page
Skip to content
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook Page
The Oxford Blue

The Oxford Blue

Oxford University's Independent Newspaper | Est. 2020

  • News and Sport
    • Oxford News
    • Sports
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Visiting Students
  • Environment
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
    • Internet Culture
  • Lifestyle
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • E-Lifestyle
    • Spotlight
    • Oxford Collaborations
  • Columns
    • Previous Columns
      • 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
      • Wine Waffle
      • Borders and Belonging
    • InterMEDIAte
    • Risk Appetite
    • Lady Grinning Soul
    • Second Draft
    • Low Concept
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • Alumni – can you help us?
  • The Archive
    • 5 Years of The Blue
    • The Blueprint
    • 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

Tag: books

Posted inCulture

Spooky Season Reads

by Freddie Hull October 8, 2021October 8, 2021
Posted inColumns

Must Read Voraciously to Improve Style: The Magic of Typewriters

by Sophie Benbelaid October 5, 2021October 5, 2021
Posted inCulture

My ‘villain edit’

by Jessica Steadman October 2, 2021October 2, 2021
Posted inCulture

Summer Reading Round Up

by Zahra Grieve September 28, 2021September 28, 2021
Posted inCulture

September Review: Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley

by Zaman Keinath-Esmail September 19, 2021September 19, 2021
Posted inLiterature

Books That Made Me: The Phantom Tollbooth

by Matilda Houston Brown September 16, 2021September 16, 2021
Posted inCulture

The Re-emergence of Middle-earth

by Mia Clement September 6, 2021September 6, 2021
Posted inCulture

Books That Made Me: Hot Milk

by Jennifer Goodier September 6, 2021September 6, 2021
Posted inColumns

Must Read Voraciously To Improve Style: The Power of Imagination

by Sophie Benbelaid August 23, 2021August 23, 2021
Posted inCulture

Books That Made Me: Little Women

by Lily Down August 23, 2021August 23, 2021

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 Older posts

Popular Posts

  • Tommy Robinson Appearance at Oxford Union Sparks Mass Protest
  • An image of a path through a forest.
    In Defence of the Bachelor Life
  • Matt Goodwin giving a round of applause.
    Goodwin Appearance Draws Protest at Union, foreshadowing Tommy Robinson Debate
  • An image of the NIV Bible, 1 Corinthians 13
    We Will Continue to Love
  • Image Credit: Imogen Forest, taken in Italy
    We should have left ‘whimsy’ in 2025
  • A LAN party in the Winter 2004 DreamHack.
    Monoculture isn’t dead, it’s online
  • The wisteria on the wall of Jesus College, Oxford.
    Who Gets to Remember?: When nostalgia becomes dangerous
  • Lubomyr Melnyk
    Lubomyr Melnyk Windmills at Exeter College Chapel: Reviewed
  • Tony Blair, 9 July 2010. Photo published by the Office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo.
    Britain’s prophet steps forward
  • Characters from the Two Noble Kinsmen garden play
    Hey ho, the Wind and the Rain (Or, Best Case Scenario, the Beauty of the Sun)

On Some Far Shore at the Michael Pilch Studio: Reviewed

Janik Peeters Jun 12, 2026 6 min read
Four actors gesticulate to each other in front of a large white sheet. The photo is taken at a side angle.

“How can you possibly even start a eulogy for a loved one – a parent you have relied on and looked up to your whole…

Call the violence in Belfast out for what it is: Pogroms

Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani Jun 12, 2026 6 min read
Van on fire during the 2024 Southport Riots

I refuse to use the phrases “anti-immigration riots”, “violent disorder”, “disruptions” or “unrest” to describe what ethnic minorities and those who present as visibly Muslim,…

Low Concept: Pursuit for its Own Sake

Eliza Kaminska-Benadat Jun 12, 2026 5 min read
Photo of the Oxford skyline.

“My thesis is not one implying a value to decentring work or academic commitments. It is one concerned with giving enjoyments and pursuits for pleasure…

Friendship: Who I Am, Who I Was, Who I Will Be

Isobel Gurnett Jun 12, 2026 6 min read
Taylor swift friendship bracelets on the arms of four friends with the number 13 painted on their hands.

Eleanor Harris discusses the relation between friendship and identity and how friends form who we are.

© 2026 The Oxford Blue Student Newspaper CIC | A new voice for a new decade | Est. 2020. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook Page
Go to mobile version