OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

ALEX CHASTEEN - Examining the undercurrents of female violence in Gothic fiction and domestic realism.

ANANYA AGUSTIN MALHOTRA - Putting minds back into bodies and keeping the body in mind

Our writers review this year's novels shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

NATALIE PERMAN - 'I pulled the moth of a memory away from the lampshade / with a toothpick'

GIANNI DI FALCO - Squid's debut album refuses to separate the personal and the political

ADAM BERBIC - In conversation with the novelist and journalist, Will Self.

THOMAS CLARK - A reflection on our everyday moments of sanity

PAUL STEPHENSON - 'the truth/crumbled into the blue linoleum of the hangar-like studio'

RITA MAY - Angel's latest book explores the limits of sexual consent and what it means for sex to be 'good' today.

NIKITA OSTROVSKY - in conversation with the physicist and writer, Carlo Rovelli

MICHAEL ROWAND - Yaffa’s new study of Russia’s cyberwarfare finds trade-offs in Putin’s political regime.

ION D. SÎRBU - a new translation of his short story 'I Don't Know How the Mirror Broke' by Andreea Iulia Scridon

ANNABEL ROGERS - Taylor intertwines connection and disconnection with a sense of disgust...

JULES DESAI - Negarestani's philosophy of negative portraiture sheds light on the Nobel Prize-Winner Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel.

ALEXANDRA PUGH - Both An Apartment and King Kong Theory stage various forms of border crossing...

JEN FRANTZ - You are the pilot of your own sanity.

YAGNISHSING DAWOOR - A year after the protests sparked by George Floyd's murder, Black art reclaims joy amidst violence.

ANNA WEBER - A European Anglophile reflects on post-Brexit Britain

EMILY WILDER - A re-examination of the homophobic undertones in Buñuel and Dalí's 1929 film, Un Chien Andalou

HELENA AEBERLI - Runner-Up of the Summer 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Larissa Pham.