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Sublime Drizzlings: Bright Young Columnists

by Chloe Smith June 10, 2024June 10, 2024

A sliced orange on a white table.

Of Sharing and Oranges

by Jenny Black June 7, 2024June 6, 2024

Missing My Mum’s Miso Salmon

by Nina Naidu June 6, 2024June 6, 2024

Small Fictions, Small Kitchens

by Elliot Koubis May 26, 2024May 27, 2024

Guanciale: Italiamo, High Street, Oxford

by Elliot Koubis May 4, 2024May 4, 2024

Sublime Drizzlings: An Evening with Transpennine Express

by Chloe Smith May 3, 2024May 3, 2024

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

Oxford Desi Ball 2024: The Start of Something New!

by Vidushi Chugh April 26, 2024April 25, 2024

Ukrainian Flags around the Radcliffe Camera, with banners expressing opinions about the war

‘Fractured Solidarity: Oxford Marks Two Years Since the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine’

by Sofia Johanson March 18, 2024March 17, 2024

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: a Quarter-Life and Epistemological Crisis

by Naomi Finapiri March 18, 2024March 18, 2024

Why I Refuse to Wear The Red Poppy

Lleucu Haf Dec 5, 2025 4 min read

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

It is the 11th of November again, the date when the guns fell silent in 1918, when an armistice was signed in France marking the…

Telltaylor: By a Lancashire Farm Shop, I Sat Down and Wept

Alicia Taylor Dec 4, 2025 9 min read

An image of the Radcliffe Camera against a sunset sky, with the text 'TELLTAYLOR' written in front.

“I was always a muse, a magician’s trick, bending my own image to enhance his own. He seemed to compliment me only if the words fit…

Do different languages change the way we think?

Sophie Harrison Dec 4, 2025 5 min read

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563), public domain

According to the legend of Babel, the existence of different languages on Earth began as a punishment. Humanity, daring to build its tower skyward, was…

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

Orla Case Dec 3, 2025 6 min read

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

‘The term depicts a feeling “as infinite as an open accordion, a synthesis of grief, sympathy, remorse, and indefinable longing”, which begs the question –…