OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

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

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

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.

Simon Alderwick reviews: AGIMAT by Romalyn Ante, Small Undetectable Thefts by Yanita Georgieva and All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath

In 2003, when she was diagnosed with cancer, Annie Ernaux found that she could not write.

Kafka’s protagonists, both human and animal, often find themselves caged.

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.

Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon, had knockout feet. Few who saw them in action would deny it.

Kim’s debut chapbook Invisible Cartographies, published September 2024 by New Delta Review, is perhaps a collection of thundereggs.

Elias Canetti asks if language is the barrier to understanding some kind of universal mortality.

Leslie Jamison’s Splinters was released at the end of February to enormous fanfare.

Under the sombre sky of a rainy city centre, vibrant flags in black, red, green, and white hues stood out distinctly

...as she bore both a personal and reportorial witness to the labour of “dying, when one loves life so much.”