OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

BASIL BOWDLER - Tala Madani's 'Shit Moms' is unflinchingly graphic in its questioning of motherhood and sexuality.

ROSS JAMES GILDEA - One of the parallels between our own political climate and the years preceding the Troubles is the air of complacency

KALEEM HAWA - They mean, ‘Why are Arabs still under mass surveillance?’, and, ‘Why were they ever?’

ANGUS BROWN - Yukio Mishima and the meaninglessness of modernity

OLYA MAKAROVA -Attitudes to astrology in popular consciousness

MICHAEL O'CONNOR - In Krasnahorkai’s ‘last’ novel, a man’s return sets the stage for an expedition into the author's own mind.

REBEKAH COHEN - Smith’s experimental short fiction exercises a ‘right to be wrong’

AOIFE CANTRILL - Revisiting the early work of Chinese documentary maker Zhao Liang

ELLA JOHNSON - A reading of Ocean Vuong's poetic novel alongside Kubrick's brutal masterpiece, Full Metal Jacket.

JAKE LEHRLE-FRYE - disentangling the American disillusionment with healthcare, and looking for a way forward.

JESSIE GOETZINGER - The dangers of possessing and being possessed.

HUGHIE ROGERS-COLTMAN - Examining 2019's finest examples of the resurgent genre of nature-writing

GEORGE RUSHTON - In Ted Chiang's latest short story collection, meaning emerges through patterns, structure, and movement,.

LIBBY CHERRY - Edward Snowden's autobiography places the 2013 revelations in a new perspective

MILO NESBITT - Tracing Prince's legacy in memoir and biography

JALEH BRAZELL -The development of fashion literature and the need for personal touch

SHANNON OSAKA - Can XR channel disruptive power into policy change?

ALTAIR BRANDON-SALMON - A narrative of recovery in the Mendip hills

JOHN PHIPPS - What we talk about when we talk about Oxford

HARRY R. LLOYD - Rethinking reason and logic for the populist age