OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

PHILIP HANCOCK - 'An assortment of sticks / sprouts from a five litre tin / on the work bench.'

CHARLIE TAYLOR - Freedom and nostalgia in Europe's post-communist periphery.

GLOBAL DISPATCHES - Notes from Myanmar, Colombia, Spain, and Germany.

SEAMUS PERRY - Muldoon and McCartney: Seamus Perry on the two Pauls.

KATE McLOUGHLIN - 'At midnight, at the border, the train, / Which had roared through birch forests, / Stopped.'

MIA WU - Self-discovery in a Shanghai Covid-19 state quarantine facility.

ELIZA BROWNING - Cal Flyn on the aesthetics of abandonment.

PAIGE ALLEN - Rebecca F. Kuang on her anticolonial Oxford fantasy novel.

MAYA C POPA - 'The clipper without / sail or shroud, // a shell through which / the city gleamed'

ELEANOR HALLESY - Helen Thompson on how we got here and how we get to net zero.

ADRIAN KREUTZ - Lamenting the loss of the student revolutionary.

NICHOLAS CLARK - The shifting sands of Singaporean statecraft.

ADAM POSSENER - A new face for Yiddish.

ROBERT MERGES - Inflation in the Anthropocene.

ISABELLA CRISPINO - Is the climate crisis ushering in a new politics of the emotions?

KATHERINE FRANCO – Modernism in a post-internet age: celebrating the centenary of Ulysses.

HEIDI WILLIAMSON - 'Unexpectedly there were complications. / Expectedly the doctors said to abort.'

LIAM JOHNSTON – Authentic accounts of class difference often require a complex effort to remember what has been deliberately left behind.

KATE ÖZEL — Runner-up of the Autumn 2021 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by Bart van Es.

CAITLIN WILSON - Winner of the Autumn 2021 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by Bart van Es.