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WINTER 2026

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Our latest issue, launched at Cliveden Literary Festival in October 2026. Featuring a wide variety of on-the-ground journalism, opinion pieces, reviews and interviews with literary figures. Also featuring details of our newly announced collaboration with Cambridge, marking the first collaboration of its kind between the two universities. This edition features Martha C. Nussbaum, Vanessa Santos, Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes in review. Iain McGilchrist, Arch Hades, Asma Khan & more are in conversation.

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SUMMER 2026

Double Issue

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Our biggest issue to date. Featuring a wide variety of on-the-ground journalism, opinion pieces, reviews and interviews with literary figures. Also featuring prints of our Art Prize shortlist, sponsored by Sotheby's. This edition features Brian Dillon and Polly Barton in review, and Colin Kidd and Fabrice Arfi in conversation.

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FEATURED

'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'

Read two poems by Victoria Spires, 'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'.

POETRY

Jun 301 min read

Rest stop at Wheeler Ridge

Zoe Dorado's 'Rest stop at Wheeler Ridge'.

Jun 232 min read

We Were None of Us Heroes

Olivia Katrandjian interviews Alice Jolly about her recent book, 'The Matchbox Girl'.

INTERVIEWS

Jun 238 min read

Wonderland

D.P. Strickland's prizewinning 'Wonderland'.

FICTION

Jun 148 min read

In Conversation with Erica McAlpine

Poet-professor Erica McAlpine on her upcoming collection, 'Small Pointed Things'.

INTERVIEWS

Apr 218 min read

From the Madman’s Chaos to Sacred Restoration

In May 2025, the Lord Mayor of Belfast unveiled a stained-glass window in City Hall depicting a young man in a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “Save Sodomy from Ulster.”

REVIEWS

Apr 34 min read

Blue

By Meghan Miraglia Blue I’m in my Blue period – it’s Joni all the time. She’s sitting in a park in Paris, France. I’m sitting on the edge of your bed. The premise is the same: the news sure looks bad. When the courts overturned Roe, you were holding another woman, a woman who you loved once and then didn’t. She cried in your arms. You told me how you touched her hair until she was calm again. Like a horse left in the rain, I thought. I picture your hand over mine i

POETRY

Sep 241 min read

In Conversation with Alice Hattrick

Ella Sperling interviews Alice Hattrick on their latest novel released by Fitzcarraldo, Fancy Work.

IN CONVERSATION

Jul 98 min read

'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'

Read two poems by Victoria Spires, 'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'.

POETRY

Jun 301 min read

REVIEWS

In Review: Maggie O’Farrell’s Land

Eleanor Davies reviews Maggie O'Farrell's latest release, Land.

'Bearing News from the Land of the Dead'

Liam Gornall on the poetry of medieval Wales.

From the Madman’s Chaos to Sacred Restoration

In May 2025, the Lord Mayor of Belfast unveiled a stained-glass window in City Hall depicting a young man in a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “Save Sodomy from Ulster.”

In Review: Dorothy Tse's 'City Like Water'

SHARON CHAU - Tse's dark absurdity becomes a form of resistance in a quietly vanishing city.

ESSAYS

Bear Consideration

E. GRANT - Paddington Bear, the quintessential immigrant.

Mapping Knowledge in Damascus

SELINA CHEN - The bus ride was bumpy and the Syrian sunset was molten gold.

Jonathan Miller: a tribute to my mentor

DARIUS SANAI - For a mentor, Jonathan Miller could give some pretty damn terrible advice.

Behind the scenes of one of London’s great hotels

ALBERT WARD reports from the underbelly of the Hotel Grand on the labourers who make it possible.

IN CONVERSATION

In Conversation with Alice Hattrick

Ella Sperling interviews Alice Hattrick on their latest novel released by Fitzcarraldo, Fancy Work.

The Oxford Review of Books

In Conversation with Erica McAlpine

Poet-professor Erica McAlpine on her upcoming collection, 'Small Pointed Things'.

The Oxford Review of Books

Healing in the Fault Zone: Talking to Eleni Stecopoulos on Illness, Poetics, and Collective Impasse

MANDY QUAN and DIEGO MARTINEZ MENDIOLA in conversation with Eleni Stecopoulos on illness, poetics and collective impasse.

The Oxford Review of Books

CURATOR'S PICK

Kathleen Quaintance

FICTION

Wonderland

D.P. Strickland's prizewinning 'Wonderland'.

Haunted Alexandria

Her breath is heavy, heavy heavy, and when she bends over to pick the okra she can hear it loud.

Lunch's Apples

'Lunch's Apples', runner up in the ORB's short fiction prize.

MELTED SUN

By Linden Hibbert Honourable mention in the ORB's MT25 Short Fiction Prize, judged by Laird Hunt. Photograph by Linden Hibbert He wanted the dog, his mother always reminds him, so he can fucking walk it. And he does walk it, though he nips out early so not to give her the satisfaction of seeing him do as he’s told. This time of year, it’s dark when he leaves, flat light all day at school and then dark when he gets home. Today he feels like bunking off, him and the dog. It’s m

POETRY

Blue

By Meghan Miraglia Blue I’m in my Blue period – it’s Joni all the time. She’s sitting in a park in Paris, France. I’m sitting on the edge of your bed. The premise is the same: the news sure looks bad. When the courts overturned Roe, you were holding another woman, a woman who you loved once and then didn’t. She cried in your arms. You told me how you touched her hair until she was calm again. Like a horse left in the rain, I thought. I picture your hand over mine i

'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'

Read two poems by Victoria Spires, 'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'.

'Pale Ails' and 'Foxes'

Read selected poems by Ben Harding, 'Foxes' and 'Pale Ails'.

AKATALĒPSIA

ALICE WEATHERLEY - I was stuck to garden stones when you read to me

INTERVIEWS

Fictions of Friction

CATHERINE BORTHWICK on the rapid dissolution of aesthetic mediation.

Healing in the Fault Zone: Talking to Eleni Stecopoulos on Illness, Poetics, and Collective Impasse

MANDY QUAN and DIEGO MARTINEZ MENDIOLA in conversation with Eleni Stecopoulos on illness, poetics and collective impasse.

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.

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Blue

POETRY

In Conversation with Alice Hattrick

IN CONVERSATION

'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'

POETRY

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OXFORD REVIEW of BOOKS

OXFORD REVIEW of BOOKS

WINTER 2026

Our Latest Issue

Published in association with Stanford University

SUMMER 2026

Double Issue

Published in association with Stanford University

FEATURED

'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'

Rest stop at Wheeler Ridge

We Were None of Us Heroes

Wonderland

In Conversation with Erica McAlpine

From the Madman’s Chaos to Sacred Restoration

Blue

In Conversation with Alice Hattrick

'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'

REVIEWS

In Review: Maggie O’Farrell’s Land

'Bearing News from the Land of the Dead'

From the Madman’s Chaos to Sacred Restoration

In Review: Dorothy Tse's 'City Like Water'

ESSAYS

Bear Consideration

Mapping Knowledge in Damascus

Jonathan Miller: a tribute to my mentor

Behind the scenes of one of London’s great hotels

IN CONVERSATION

In Conversation with Alice Hattrick

In Conversation with Erica McAlpine

Healing in the Fault Zone: Talking to Eleni Stecopoulos on Illness, Poetics, and Collective Impasse

CURATOR'S PICK

Kathleen Quaintance

FICTION

Wonderland

Haunted Alexandria

Lunch's Apples

MELTED SUN

POETRY

Blue

'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'

'Pale Ails' and 'Foxes'

AKATALĒPSIA

INTERVIEWS

Fictions of Friction

Healing in the Fault Zone: Talking to Eleni Stecopoulos on Illness, Poetics, and Collective Impasse

Classically Trained

States of Disrepair

LAST ISSUE ARCHIVE

Blue

In Conversation with Alice Hattrick

'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'

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