OXFORD
REVIEW
of BOOKS

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

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

Hinges, Keyholes and Card Games

OLIVIA SANDHU on A E Stallings and ‘winding up’ poems with classical allusion.

REVIEWS

Mar 237 min read

The Mystery of the Medium

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

IN CONVERSATION

1 day ago7 min read

Room with Pink Elephant

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

FICTION

5 days ago8 min read

Dreams of Californiacation

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

FICTION

May 138 min read

REVIEWS

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.

Re-rooting

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

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

The Mystery of the Medium

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

The Oxford Review of Books

Saplings in the Inkwell

AUSTIN SPENDLOWE - Ange Mlinko on plants, print and pragmatism.

The Oxford Review of Books

Classically Trained

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

The Oxford Review of Books

CURATOR'S PICK

Kathleen Quaintance

FICTION

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 MT24 Short Fiction Prize.

Object Study

We can find her reflection anywhere: and see how she is rendered in perfect relief.

POETRY

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.

Seven Poems (Assorted)

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

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?"

READING

LIST

LAST ISSUE ARCHIVE

The Mystery of the Medium

IN CONVERSATION

Room with Pink Elephant

FICTION

Dreams of Californiacation

FICTION

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OXFORD REVIEW of BOOKS

OXFORD REVIEW of BOOKS

SUMMER 2025

Current Issue

Published in association with Stanford University

FEATURED

You Are What You Eat

A Hotel Mindset

Mistaking Marx

Re-rooting

Strange Folk, Country Folk, Trendy Folk

Hinges, Keyholes and Card Games

The Mystery of the Medium

Room with Pink Elephant

Dreams of Californiacation

REVIEWS

Big Flora

A Hotel Mindset

Mistaking Marx

Re-rooting

ESSAYS

On Shoelaces

Tenderfoot

The return of social realism

You Are What You Eat

IN CONVERSATION

The Mystery of the Medium

Saplings in the Inkwell

Classically Trained

CURATOR'S PICK

Kathleen Quaintance

FICTION

Room with Pink Elephant

Dreams of Californiacation

Seeding

Object Study

POETRY

Prospectus

Kenrap of the Phuktal Monastery

Atlantis

Seven Poems (Assorted)

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 Mystery of the Medium

Room with Pink Elephant

Dreams of Californiacation

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