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Love Letters: Halfway There!

by Lucy Pollock February 16, 2025February 16, 2025

Me, My Shelf, and I

by Nina Naidu February 12, 2024February 12, 2024

We Shall Enter the Splendid City: Kill Your Darlings in Oxford

by Kelly Yu February 6, 2024February 11, 2024

An Introduction to the Classics: Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White

by Sophie Harrison January 29, 2024January 29, 2024

Director Highlight: Richard Linklater

by Khadijah Ali January 21, 2024January 21, 2024

Italo Disco Discovery

by Maisie Burgess January 20, 2024January 20, 2024

A Comeback Story With a New Director: An Interview with Guenther Steiner

by Thomas Britton and Hannah Newman January 14, 2024April 21, 2024

Toad of Toad Hall: A Review

by Kengyu Lai November 15, 2023November 15, 2023

The Blueprint, Issue no.13: Summer 2023

by Niamh Walker, Izzy Lucas, Eliza Munday and Liberty Brignall November 6, 2023November 15, 2023

Still Life: a Review

by Isabella Bridgman November 1, 2023November 8, 2023

Scenes With Girls at the Burton Taylor Studio: Reviewed

Laurence Britton Jun 11, 2026 6 min read

Three girls sit and talk on the floor.

“Are they safe, or dangerously codependent? Is this life, paradoxically within and without heteronormativity, sustainable? Is this real girlhood? Is this enough?” Aimee Dixon reviews…

Shell Shock at Corpus: Bernard Wins Trifecta in 2026 Tortoise Race

Thomas Yates Jun 11, 2026 3 min read

A college tortoise approaches a ring of lettuce.

Bernard the Tortoise won not once, but three times, at the 2026 Tortoise Fair at Corpus Christi. Meanwhile, there was room for humans to get…

The Exportation of British Misogyny

Jessica Gregory Jun 11, 2026 7 min read

Graffiti on a wall

The sound of accordion, and the sweet heavy smell of cinnamon and spices drifted pleasantly through the small winding streets, dappled with pale April sunlight.…

Spotlight – All work and no play makes an exhausted Oxford student

Jessica Gregory Jun 10, 2026 7 min read

Five hardback Russian books

I have now finished my long eight-day stint of shifts. In the next few days off that I have, I look forward to utilising my…