OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

SAMUEL KING - Emma Smith on All Souls and Shakespeare

MARIA SLEDMERE - 'Romance scams always make me cry / my front teeth chipped from the cinnamon cookie'

JOHN MAIER - Maggi Hambling on art, smoking and death.

By Donna Stonecipher People were getting rid of their libraries, and they sighed with relief when they spoke of it, as though the weight...

MATHIAS GJESDAL HAMMER - Considering the future of the EU Army.

OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN - Runner-up of the Summer 2022 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by A K Blakemore.

CORA MacGREGOR - Fiction and the female philosopher.

ELIZA BROWNING - Cal Flyn on the aesthetics of abandonment.

ADRIAN KREUTZ - Lamenting the loss of the student revolutionary.

ALEX CHASTEEN - Examining the undercurrents of female violence in Gothic fiction and domestic realism.

Our writers review this year's novels shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

THOMAS CLARK - A reflection on our everyday moments of sanity

ION D. SÎRBU - a new translation of his short story 'I Don't Know How the Mirror Broke' by Andreea Iulia Scridon

ALEXANDRA PUGH - Both An Apartment and King Kong Theory stage various forms of border crossing...

LUCY THYNNE – Is it possible to write a good internet novel?

CALEB AZUMAH NELSON - When writing Open Water, I was aware that this idea of truth kept emerging ...

PATRICK HAYES - A review of Blake Bailey's biography of the legendary American writer, Philip Roth.

CIA MANGAT – 'swishing water from the bottle between my lips I witnessed feet like pale fish overlapping'