OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

SHANNON OSAKA -A report from the twenty-fourth United Nations Climate Conference.

JOHN PHIPPS – A surf journalist explains surfing's love affair with cocaine.

JESSIE GOETZINGER-HALL discusses the eerie world of Daisy Johnson's Man Booker-shortlisted novel

SAMMY MORIARTY rediscovers the exuberance of Fran Ross' Oreo

JAMES MCNAMEY -Carolinn Hughes' translates all the sensations of her verse into her autobiographical debut novel

Seeds of Science: Why we got it so wrong on GMOs Mark Lynas, Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018 The War on Science Shawn Otto, Milkweed, 2016 When...

Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, 2017 The Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward, Bloomsbury, 2013 Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward,...

BILLIE ESPLEN - We are inundated with film, television, and visual arts that ‘speak to the moment’.

OLIVER EAGLETON - Israeli hawks are gaining ground, and that their friendship with the Saudis spells ruin for Lebanon.

ANIRUDH SRIDHAR - The Venetian painter Tintoretto merits remembrance for his expansive style and relentless energy.

ALASTAIR CURTIS - History is ineluctably connected with the notion of identity, both individual and societal.

SAMUEL DUNNETT - The climate crisis is here.

WILLIAM HOSIE-LISSAC - Following the recent prequel to His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman has been accused of lingering in his own universe.

ADAM ASHER - Scholars of the language now struggle to navigate the politics of funding and endorsement in their field.

KRISTER RASMUSSEN - Wealth inequality is often dismissed as an ideological issue.

NAOMI KEENAN O’SHEA -Jafar Panahi’s 2010 arrest and ban from filmmaking has not diminshed his status as Iran’s most provocative director.

HOPE SUTHERLAND - Myth has long played a part in the construction of group identities.

LAURA HACKETT - Vladimir Nabokov’s dream diary seeks to free writing about the subconscious from the shadow of Freudian analysis.

PETER VICKERS - The neural network, like everything inhuman, will not kill the author.

RODDY HOWLAND JACKSON - Society may be united in its praise for these works, but these works do not envision a united society.