fiction Archives - The Oxford Blue

New Years’ Resolution

by Olivier Jawornicki February 26, 2026February 26, 2026

Raindrop

by Avani Rao February 12, 2026February 12, 2026

Reflection

by Alice Henderson February 5, 2026February 5, 2026

Snow

by Nina Sablan December 15, 2025December 15, 2025

A photo of Gwen John's The Convalescent

‘Moments drawn out fine’: Sitting With Gwen John’s ‘The Convalescent’ and Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage

by Esme Gutch December 5, 2025December 11, 2025

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

by Orla Case December 3, 2025December 3, 2025

The Hiding Tree

by Dami Adedoyin-Adeniyi June 15, 2025June 15, 2025

So Bad, it’s Good: Twilight, ACOTAR and the eternal girlhood of romantasy

by Jade Glendinning June 2, 2025June 13, 2025

The Queer Child

by Q Le May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

image of a white bookcase filled with colourful books

Help! I Think I’m a Reading Snob.

by Erin Bridgewater May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

Who Gets to Remember?: When nostalgia becomes dangerous

Isabella Hamilton Dale Jun 21, 2026 7 min read

The wisteria on the wall of Jesus College, Oxford.

“At the individual level, the mismatch between memory and history appears fairly harmless. For the collective, it can be terrible. The present, the only actuality,…

Monoculture isn’t dead, it’s online

Rohit Ghosh Jun 21, 2026 6 min read

A LAN party in the Winter 2004 DreamHack.

Culture feels chaotic right now. The times of communion over music videos on MTV are officially over, and our lives are split across millions of…

In Defence of the Bachelor Life

Isobel Gurnett Jun 20, 2026 5 min read

An image of a path through a forest.

An anonymous author writes about their experience of being aromantic in a society that values romance above other types of love.

We should have left ‘whimsy’ in 2025

Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani Jun 20, 2026 5 min read

Image Credit: Imogen Forest, taken in Italy

Whimsical. Around a year ago, this word (and all its variations) sprouted roots on the internet. It somehow blossomed amidst the backdrop of heightened global…