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Risk Appetite: On Trying British Classics as an American

by Valerie Wu April 30, 2026April 30, 2026

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A Camera Roll in Language

by Ruby Sampson November 20, 2025November 21, 2025

So Bad, it’s Good: In Defence of A Minecraft Movie

by Rohit Ghosh June 14, 2025June 13, 2025

Food

Flavours of Home: Tempura, a Metonym

by Zac Yang June 7, 2025June 7, 2025

Image depicting a tide coming in along the edge of a beach. Image taken by Ben Harris, sourced from geograph.org.uk, Wikimedia Commons,

Blissfully Ignorant: Why Growing up Fast isn’t Always a Virtue

by Arun Lewis March 7, 2025March 5, 2025

a small cup of coffee on a multicoloured background

What makes somewhere home?

by Maryam AlKetbi February 26, 2025February 25, 2025

Missing My Mum’s Miso Salmon

by Nina Naidu June 6, 2024June 6, 2024

(Dis)abled

by Ruby Bailey-Proe February 16, 2024May 12, 2024

This illustration shows an alcove filled with personal items, including a teapot and toy ballerina, with the column’s title ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ in the background

Sublime Drizzlings: Looking Through the Hourglass

by Chloe Smith February 8, 2024February 8, 2024

French Travels: II. Bordeaux, Quel Bordel!

by Klara Zhao September 15, 2021September 22, 2021

Excess and Essays: A Visiting Student’s Reflection

Isobel Gurnett May 2, 2026 7 min read

An image of the Farmers and Mechanics Branch of the PNC Bank in Georgetown, Washington DC

“This would be my third university in three years, and I was well-practised in the ritual of formulating one’s persona. Feigning the aloof disinterest one…

Biodiversity for profit? Power and accountability at IPBES-12

Hannah Smith May 2, 2026 5 min read

Drone shot capturing lush green fields and trees

Niamh Tooher evaluates the success of the IPBES-12 conference in effectively aligning business and biodiversity, in a space where corporate presence was found lacking. Image…

Bonaly’s Backflip Returns to Olympic Ice

Thomas Yates May 2, 2026 4 min read

Figure skater Surya Bonaly, competing in 1992.

“She decided that she’d lose on her own terms. As a statement against judging bias, Bonaly performed the first and only illegal backflip on Olympic…

David Marmet’s Oleanna at New College, Oxford: Reviewed

Nancy Pierre May 1, 2026 5 min read

The two protagonists of Oleanna; the professor is reading an essay to his student.

David Mamet’s Oleanna is a difficult play. Difficult in that it raises hard questions about how we respond to claims of sexual harassment and imbalances…