OXFORD
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SUMMER 2024

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This issue includes reviews of Nicholas Padamsee, Andrew McMillan, Morgan Parker and Augustin Fernández Mallo and in conversations with Andrew O'Hagan, David Harsent, Boris Grebenshikov and Amy Dickman.

Our writers investigate child exploitation on TikTok and Television, the histories of the sapphic wardrobe, and the changing face of the Centrist Dad.

The new edition is now available for print order.

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FEATURED

Jan 20, 2023
7 min

ESSAYS & REVIEWS

Free Them All

Jan 15, 2023
7 min

ESSAYS & REVIEWS

Murakami, Incorporated

In Review: Meg Kim, Invisible Cartographies (New Delta Review, 2024)

Shaw Worth

Sep 3

REVIEWS

In Review: Meg Kim, Invisible Cartographies (New Delta Review, 2024)

Kim’s debut chapbook Invisible Cartographies, published September 2024 by New Delta Review, is perhaps a collection of thundereggs.

WE ARE READING

Apr 24
4 min

POETRY

Seven Poems (Assorted)

Apr 23
1 min

POETRY

The Pietists

May 29, 2023
1 min

POETRY

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REVIEWS

In Review: Meg Kim, Invisible Cartographies (New Delta Review, 2024)

Kim’s debut chapbook Invisible Cartographies, published September 2024 by New Delta Review, is perhaps a collection of thundereggs.

Pimping unfinished business: Elias Canetti's "The Book Against Death"

Elias Canetti asks if language is the barrier to understanding some kind of universal mortality.

"Splinters": The Opposite of a Cocktail-Party

Leslie Jamison’s Splinters was released at the end of February to enormous fanfare.

Minor Details, Major Insights

Under the sombre sky of a rainy city centre, vibrant flags in black, red, green, and white hues stood out distinctly

ESSAYS

The Definition of Insanity: The Tory misdiagnosis of Britain’s mental health crisis

A misdiagnosis has been made — and our nation’s mental wellbeing will continue to deteriorate until the true source is identified.

Adventure in Solitude

...as she bore both a personal and reportorial witness to the labour of “dying, when one loves life so much.”

Grief Sequence

The problem with discussing grief is with words: the ways they fail and succeed to signify themselves.

Tongue-Tied

Finding yourself aboard the Taipei metro, a voice over the tannoy states the station towards which you are heading in clear-cut Mandarin.

IN CONVERSATION

The Oxford Review of Books

Wolfgang Puck's Secret Ingredient

I sat down with Wolfgang Puck on a rainy London day, sheltered in the decadent hotel bar above his London restaurant CUT at 45 Park Lane.

The Oxford Review of Books

One Afternoon with Laufey

It is a soft, spring day in London when I sit down to interview Laufey in a rooftop restaurant at Soho House.

CURATOR'S PICK

Kathleen Quaintance

FICTION

Verschollen

I left the man at Alexanderplatz for a different man who said we should drink some Marillenschnaps and forget who we were.

Small Hours

Was it really October, the last time you saw him?

Public Property

And where was the blood found, exactly?’ ‘Well that’s the thing, right. Everywhere, in a way.’

04:17 a.m, February 6

Çağla Arıbal's winning story of the Oxford Review of Book's Short Fiction Prize TT23.

POETRY

Seven Poems (Assorted)

The Oxford Review of Books presents seven assorted poems from a group of talented writers.

The Pietists

The audience’s conduit is not connecting...

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JULIAN HALL - 'As I walked to Fitness First / I was Blessed'

Your Dad Insists On Doing The Barbecue Even Though It’s Not His Housewarming Party

MICHAEL CONLEY - 'We used to have barbecues all the time'

INTERVIEWS

Wild Typography and Bootleg Books: An Interview with Leah Whitman-Salkin

"We have a bootlegging practice where we print and bind books ourselves. "

Bake Your Feelings with Becca Rea-Tucker

"Wait, why is this cake talking about abortion access?"

The Endless Tale of Life & Music: An Interview with Gena Rose Bruce

"It feels like a neverending story, which I think is reflective of life really; there’s no real ending, it’s always going and changing"

Harry Baker on Poetry, Chocolate, and Being 100% Himself (all the time)

Harry Baker talks all things poetry and being true to himself in this exclusive interview with the Oxford Review of Books.

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