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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

Shakespearean Shortcomings: Body Politics and the War Declared on the ‘Body Natural’

by Naomi Finapiri January 23, 2024January 23, 2024

A Room of Our Own

A Room of Our Own: The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands

by Nina Naidu January 19, 2024January 19, 2024

Poetry in the Digital Age: Instapoetry and Rupi Kaur’s Impact

by Nina Naidu November 25, 2023November 24, 2023

Remembering June Jordan

by Alice Watkinson November 10, 2023November 10, 2023

Once Upon a Time in Westminster

by Jessica Tabraham November 1, 2023November 1, 2023

10 Halloween Film Recommendations For The Spooky Season

by Jess Taylor October 26, 2023October 26, 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

The Hills are (Actually) Alive: Ecocriticism and its Moral Implications

by Alice Brooker October 1, 2023October 23, 2023

The Snowdrops of Oxford

Evie Williams Mar 12, 2026 4 min read

The Snowdrops of Oxford

Though the cosiness of winter is often longed for during the height of summer, the novelty soon wears off when it arrives in full force.…

Resistance: Food That Refuses to Be Instagrammable

Kamakshi Srivastava Mar 12, 2026 8 min read

Resistance: Food That Refuses to Be Instagrammable

On social media, food seems to belong to a very particular visual world — bone china, ceramic bowls, wooden boards, linen napkins, candle-lit tables. Steel…

The Lifestyle Lowdown: Day Trips

Isobel Jessop Mar 12, 2026 6 min read

The Lifestyle Lowdown: Day Trips

If you’ve got some free time as week 8 draws to a close, why not use it to explore Oxford and its surroundings? Here are…

Oxford’s College Portraits: A Personal History

Evie Williams Mar 12, 2026 6 min read

A sketch of the statue of Antony Gormley.

Evie Williams explores the ‘gallery of Oxonian history’ on every college’s walls, and asks what college portraits tell us about Oxford today.