Letter to the Editor: Part of the solution
To the Editor, Many-a-time I have been accused of performative reading. Occasionally, I carry a novel in my back pocket. This seems to provoke particularly vehement allegations of performativity…but isn’t that the point of a paperback? One day stands out in particular— the day I had Jane Auste
Letter to the Editor: Performance as survival
To the Editor, Ms Hagen is right: men should read without ridicule, resist anti-intellectualism, schlep tote bags stuffed with feminist literature while listening to Clairo. I agree, in the face of a rise in conservative views about gender roles, it is crucial to bridge the gap between
Icon of the Week: Ruby Duncan
For Ruby Duncan, art is not just a reflection of the world but a means of interrogating it. She speaks about curation as a place where the act of being seen is never neutral. In Ruby’s hands, exhibitions are not simply collections of work but acts of revision exposing what official histories omit.
TW: Genocide
In times of conflict, the images that reach us don’t just inform us, but play a vital role in deciding who, and what, the world chooses to remember. During the Vietnam War, widespread access to television sets brought the scenes of violence into American living rooms, eroding support for the c
‘What the fuck are they feeding you guys?!’: on the persistence of creativity in a digitally entrenched generation
For a platform so routinely cast as the emblem of cultural decline, accused of eroding attention spans, diluting originality, and trapping us within an endless scroll, TikTok has unexpectedly presented us with a startling contradiction — becoming a fertile ground for one of the most radical creati
Letter to the Editor: This scene kicks and screams
To the Editor, It’s around 8:30pm, and I’m backstage at the JdP music building at St Hilda’s. I’m sweaty, and I can barely walk in the tight dress I chose completely of my own volition. The second half of the concert is about to start, and as is typical of me, I’m not sure […
Guillotine: Give all children unrestricted internet access
In case you were wondering where half the world’s capital ran off to, two hot new AI innovations dropped: OpenAI’s Sora and Meta’s Vibes. They are both social media feeds. Sora’s gimmick is that you can now very easily make AI videos with real people in them. I first found out about it throu
Farewell to the EFL
the people are all homesick today or desperately sleeping, Trying to remember how those rectangular shapes Became so extraneous and so near To create a foreground of quiet knowledge In which youth had grown old — John Ashbery, ‘The Bungalows’ Oxford has enough limestone. Tour
Icon of the Week: ‘Disgusted of Christ Church’
If you’ve ever been cornered by someone really Isis-pilled— an Editor-in-Chief, perhaps, or the Dept. Ed. in charge of the cult that is Features, you’ll know that This Magazine is no stranger to the public eye. Anyone who’s ever been trapped in an unbearably self-referential conversation at
