OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

ALTAIR BRANDON-SALMON – Examining Bloomsbury's Mecklenburgh Square, its inhabitants and their aspirations.

WILLIAM NEUBAUER - Looking back at the roots of the futuristic Black American aesthetic

HELENA MURPHY - In conversation with the Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh.

BECKY CLARK - The reimagining of the post-pandemic, working world.

KATHERINE FRANCO - The latest novel from the esteemed Elena Ferrante.

MILO NESBITT – Does David Mitchell's latest novel mark a departure from other fictionalisations of the 1960s that populate the current liter

ELLENA MURRAY – A review of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet.

GIANNI DE FALCO - On 17 May 2019, songwriter and poet David Berman returned after ten silent years with ‘All My Happiness Is Gone’, the firs

By Prof. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 2020 hasn’t been a happy year for most people. According to the Covid-19 Response Tracking Survey...

LUCY THYNNE – A review of 'Sisters' by Daisy Johnson.

ZEHRA MUNIR – The Urdu chant “Hum kya chahte? Azadi!” echoed across India earlier this year.

NATALIE PERMAN - Petit’s Tiger Girl explores familial trauma among the tigers of Indian jungles, tying the personal to the ecological.

ALICE HILDER JARVIS - No more talk of polar bears: is there hope for a green recovery from the pandemic?

SALIL PATEL - Can we be certain about anything in the world of medicine?

ALEX MANBY - who has the privilege to occupy bunkers when crisis hits?

ALEXANDRE LESKANICH - on the dangers of 'moral talk' in the Internet Age.

TALLULAH GRIFFITH - on the self-preservation of the Black community through cautionary tales.

BEN RAY - On three of this year's most eagerly anticipated poetry collections

TACITA QUINN - How can the 1918 influenza outbreak help us navigate the current pandemic?

CHARLES PIDGEON - On the contemporary preoccupation with the writer's domestic space