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Illustration of Oxford buildings and study materials surrounding text that reads 'Second Draft'

Second Draft: Lists, Marmite, and smelling books

by Eleanor Davies November 20, 2025November 24, 2025

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Why Kafka’s The Trial Still Resonates, 100 Years On

by Joshua McGillivray May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

Dark Academia: the playground of rich, white men?

by Aria Chakravorty January 27, 2025June 30, 2025

Stars over Poland

Orbital by Samantha Harvey review – Booker Prize Winner 2024

by Greta Stone January 23, 2025May 14, 2025

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A Guide to Seasonal Reading

by Isabelle Winter January 7, 2025May 14, 2025

The new modern author: Coco Mellors – “characters that are as addictive as the substances that plague them.”

by Kiaya Phillips August 15, 2024August 14, 2024

Echoes and Empty Spaces: Immigration and Valeria Luiselli’s work

by Emiliano Cruz Villanueva May 16, 2024May 15, 2024

Me, My Shelf, and I

by Nina Naidu February 12, 2024February 12, 2024

Nina is Not OK (and nor am I)

by Nina Naidu January 27, 2024May 12, 2024

Tender is the Night

by Ethan McLucas January 23, 2024January 23, 2024

A Tour of The Grove: Oxford’s Newest Student Theatre Space

Janik Peeters Mar 20, 2026 5 min read

A student theatre set with two actors and a wooden structure which looks like a house.

“the Grove, with its top-of-the-line sound and lighting, traditional architectural backdrop, and grander scale, is certainly a theatre worth watching out for” Janik Peeters tours…

The Sabotage of Modernity

Rohan Shah Mar 19, 2026 5 min read

The Sabotage of Modernity

“Thunderstorm with glimmering lightnings over ocean” by Lachlan Ross, https://www.pexels.com/photo/thunderstorm-with-glimmering-lightnings-over-ocean-6510369/ In recent times, we seem to be intoxicated by the heady spirits of progress and…

Outside OX1 Week 8: Chile, Nepal and Mandelson

Lola Dunton-Milenkovic Mar 16, 2026 16 min read

Image Credit by Evie Fairclough-Kay

Welcome back to this term’s final issue of Outside OX1! Hilary has flown by and Trinity with its blossoming flowers and sunnier days awaits. What…

Locking Horns: Past Conflicts Threaten to Re-emerge in the Horn of Africa

Lola Dunton-Milenkovic Mar 16, 2026 14 min read

A man walks past a wrecked tank in Tigray Region, 2021.

Six years after Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing an end to a lengthy military standoff with Eritrea, and…