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Sublime Drizzlings: Bright Young Columnists

by Chloe Smith June 10, 2024June 10, 2024

Diaries of a Rusticated Student: Ok, Love You, Bye!

by Alice Brooker March 5, 2024March 5, 2024

Me, My Shelf, and I

by Nina Naidu February 12, 2024February 12, 2024

From Libraries to Lattes: Decoding Oxford’s Best Study Sanctuaries

by Nina Naidu February 2, 2024February 5, 2024

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Sublime Drizzlings: Circling Back to 1908…

by Chloe Smith January 31, 2024February 2, 2024

I, a slacker, copied an Academic Machine’s schedule for a week (or so I tried)

by Anonymous Author December 7, 2023April 26, 2025

In Defence of Audiobooks

by Nina Naidu November 17, 2023November 17, 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

Childhood Reading: Growing up through books

by Isabella Hickman September 17, 2023September 17, 2023

“But my mind has moved the sea”: A Review of Tove Jansson’s The Dangerous Journey

by Kengyu Lai April 12, 2023April 12, 2023

Do different languages change the way we think?

Sophie Harrison Dec 4, 2025 5 min read

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563), public domain

According to the legend of Babel, the existence of different languages on Earth began as a punishment. Humanity, daring to build its tower skyward, was…

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

Orla Case Dec 3, 2025 6 min read

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

‘The term depicts a feeling “as infinite as an open accordion, a synthesis of grief, sympathy, remorse, and indefinable longing”, which begs the question –…

Having a bath: it’s time to come clean

Matthew Donnelly Dec 3, 2025 4 min read

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Embedded in British culture is a conspiracy of silence around what must be domestic life’s most overrated activity. Mention baths in polite company and faces…

Zootopia? Urban foxes are Oxford’s cleverest companions

Ilse Von Heimburg Dec 2, 2025 3 min read

a fox on a roof in an urban environment

As a visiting student from the United States, I had never seen a fox outside of a zoo before, let alone one in an urban…