Putting the fiction back in fiction

by Rüya Oral | June 18, 2025

  Despite the havoc that the ‘spell pharaoh’ video wreaked in 2021, in the internet age, it is impossible not to define yourself by the media you consume. Eventually everybody will find themselves on #BookTok, or [insert cursive font here] film Twitter, or one of the millions of K-Pop Facebook forums each dedicated to an […]

Bush!—The Dreampolitik of Comic Purity

by Zac Yang | June 17, 2025

  Bush! The Musical by The Mollys Productions had the last show of its run at the Moser Theatre, Wadham College on Saturday 31 May, 2025   It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the Internet in the turbulent year of 2022. In the final days of Weimar  […]

‘Bops’, the new right, and woman-hating

by Evie Power | June 14, 2025

  I have deleted the Instagram App from my phone. In clearing my life of useless information (like photos of beloved family and friends, and the activities of my peers), I have found the space to devote my attention to what really matters; the Snapchat Explore page.      Snapchat’s sad, misshapen answer to TikTok’s […]

The nameless crime

by Prune Fargetton | May 28, 2025

  This is not a Netflix show. On 24 April, 15-year-old Lorène was stabbed 57 times in her classroom in Nantes by 16-year-old Justin P., and died. Her killer then proceeded to another classroom, where he stabbed three more students, leaving one critically injured.     Moments earlier, Justin P. had been in the bathroom, […]

Parody Personal Statement

by Téa Sand | June 20, 2025

Here commences the Personal Statement of the Right Honourable Patricia Eustacia Dalton-Ward, intended for the study of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, college irrelevant.   As the scintillating sun reached its zenith on a warm summer’s day, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe uttered the following sacred words that would change my life […]