OXFORD
REVIEW
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SUMMER 2025

Current Issue

Published in association with Stanford University

Featuring a wide variety of opinion pieces, reviews on striking new releases and prescient reprints, and interviews with literary figures. This edition features Catherine Lacey and Mathias Enard in review, and Andrea Long Chu and Theodor Meron in conversation.

The new edition is now available for print order.

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FEATURED

Dreams of Californiacation

MÍA ZENDEJAS - Sun, sweat and the inscrutable male ego…

FICTION

May 138 min read

You Are What You Eat

MERCY FORD asks: what makes food beautiful?

SHORT PIECES

Apr 303 min read

A Hotel Mindset

MADELEINE JACOB reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Jim Crow South, Palestine, and learning from the past.

REVIEWS

Apr 196 min read

Mistaking Marx

RUTH THRUSH on the labour of reading and translating Capital.

REVIEWS

Apr 97 min read

Re-rooting

HADASSAH WILLIAMS on Jason Allen-Paisant and (re-)relating to the land.

REVIEWS

Apr 36 min read

Strange Folk, Country Folk, Trendy Folk

WILL HALE on the marketisation of folk and country living.

DIARY

Apr 15 min read

The Baby

IMOGEN DRAKE - Winner of the ORB’s MT24 Short Fiction Prize.

FICTION

Jun 164 min read

In Review: Love and Need

SPENCER HUPP on Robert Frost’s legacy and choosing the banal.

REVIEWS

Jun 168 min read

Missing Pieces

JOHN LIVESEY chats to Anthony Passeron about the untold stories of the AIDS epidemic.

INTERVIEWS

Jun 69 min read

REVIEWS

In Review: Love and Need

SPENCER HUPP on Robert Frost’s legacy and choosing the banal.

Big Flora

PHILIPPA MONK reviews Mary Fissell’s long-overdue history of abortion.

A Hotel Mindset

MADELEINE JACOB reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Jim Crow South, Palestine, and learning from the past.

Mistaking Marx

RUTH THRUSH on the labour of reading and translating Capital.

ESSAYS

On Shoelaces

FRANCESCA GARDNER - Shoelaces in metaphor, practice and as literary form.

Tenderfoot

J L M MORTON shares an extract from her lyrical exploration of care, kinship and pilgrimage.

The return of social realism

AISLING TOWL - Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and the revival of a British classic.

You Are What You Eat

MERCY FORD asks: what makes food beautiful?

IN CONVERSATION

Missing Pieces

JOHN LIVESEY chats to Anthony Passeron about the untold stories of the AIDS epidemic.

The Oxford Review of Books

In Conversation with Colin Burrow

MADELEINE JACOB chats to scholar and critic Colin Burrow about the art of reviewing.

The Oxford Review of Books

The Mystery of the Medium

TILDA WALKER talks to Celia Paul on self-recognition through painting and poetry.

The Oxford Review of Books

CURATOR'S PICK

Kathleen Quaintance

FICTION

The Baby

IMOGEN DRAKE - Winner of the ORB’s MT24 Short Fiction Prize.

Room with Pink Elephant

F C ZERI - A young artist meets an unusual housemate.

Dreams of Californiacation

MÍA ZENDEJAS - Sun, sweat and the inscrutable male ego…

Five green apples, drawn in sketchy pencil on a wooden floor.

Seeding

MADELEINE JACOB - Winner of the ORB’s HT24 Short Fiction Prize.

POETRY

Three Poems

TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA - Men more content to change in the reflection / Of a lake, and break in dry heat underneath…

Prospectus

LEO KANG - ‘But mizzle, bitten thing…’

Kenrap of the Phuktal Monastery

CASPIAN FLINT - ‘Through slatted window rings / the mountain embalmed a bell…’

Atlantis

You had to be there.

INTERVIEWS

Classically Trained

JUAN FUEYO-GOMEZ - Daniel Mendelsohn on relating to and reworking Ancient Greece.

States of Disrepair

CATHERINE BORTHWICK - Vincent Bevins on participatory political reporting.

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?"

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LIST

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In Review: Love and Need

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Missing Pieces

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OXFORD REVIEW of BOOKS

OXFORD REVIEW of BOOKS

SUMMER 2025

Current Issue

Published in association with Stanford University

FEATURED

Dreams of Californiacation

You Are What You Eat

A Hotel Mindset

Mistaking Marx

Re-rooting

Strange Folk, Country Folk, Trendy Folk

The Baby

In Review: Love and Need

Missing Pieces

REVIEWS

In Review: Love and Need

Big Flora

A Hotel Mindset

Mistaking Marx

ESSAYS

On Shoelaces

Tenderfoot

The return of social realism

You Are What You Eat

IN CONVERSATION

Missing Pieces

In Conversation with Colin Burrow

The Mystery of the Medium

CURATOR'S PICK

Kathleen Quaintance

FICTION

The Baby

Room with Pink Elephant

Dreams of Californiacation

Seeding

POETRY

Three Poems

Prospectus

Kenrap of the Phuktal Monastery

Atlantis

INTERVIEWS

Classically Trained

States of Disrepair

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

Bake Your Feelings with Becca Rea-Tucker

LAST ISSUE ARCHIVE

The Baby

In Review: Love and Need

Missing Pieces

MAGAZINE

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