OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

AVIN HOURO - The question remains: has the colonial skeleton of the museum been shaken, or simply re-dressed? 

LOTTIE WALKER - In Hark: How Women Listen, Alice Vincent tunes into the frequencies and silences of womanhood.

ROY SHINAR COHEN - A posthumous Joan Didion journal offers raw intimacy - along with guilt for reading what she never meant to publish.

NANEH V HOVHANNISYAN reviews a journalist’s culinary odyssey through the South Caucasus.

MAX CALLIMANOPULOS – Michael Clune’s first novel 'Pan' translates adolescent panic into a hallucinatory study of thought and perception.

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

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

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

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

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

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

RUTH THRUSH on the labour of reading and translating Capital.

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

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

JOSH ABBEY - Cornell’s phantastic metafiction, in review.

SARAH MOORHOUSE - A powerhouse Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in review.

MATILDA SIDEL - Women in Dark Times, in review.

Hourani’s poetry is as meditative as it is proactive: it finds in the poet’s prerogative to organise a method of resistance. 

COCO COTTAM - Sally Rooney’s new book wriggles under new (and old) constraints.

SARA ELBANNA - Egypt's climate activists dream of a future beyond capitalism