Oxford: a place for lovers?
What makes a city feel romantic? Oxford, certainly, looks the part: honey-coloured stone, lamplit and cobbled lanes, churches, and spires—as much a living film set as a city, and directors have long agreed. From Brideshead Revisited (2008) to Saltburn (2023), Oxford has been a backdrop for romanti
So you’ve caught feelings…
It’s a fact of statistics that (for most of us) the body counts of our sexual partners will be higher than our own; someone who sleeps with a lot of people is more likely to have slept with you. Those same sweet nothings, which may have seemed so touching and honest at the time, have […]
It is bourgeois to block your ex.
There is this thing Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada, his longest, most torturous (at least the first 20 pages), and certainly most arduous book to read. In it, Van and Ada, the twin protagonists, two lovers who have been together and separated for over 80 years, share this term for each others’ past flam
I Dated Oxford Men So You Don’t Have To.
Eight weeks into my Oxford term, after enough pints to kill a Victorian child and enough small talk to power a minor political campaign, I have conducted an experiment. A social one. Or maybe just a nosy one. The guiding question: What are Oxford men like? My curiosity stemmed from the susp
