OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

RODDY HOWLAND JACKSON - literature-themed cryptic crossword

NIMAYA GRACE LEMAL

EMILY WILDER - Devi writes candidly about matters most authors would not dare to.

BARNABY PITE - They died and suffered in their thousands, and little is left of them beyond a few black bricks on the corner of a street.

OLYA MAKAROVA - Zambreno and Moshfegh present two responses to modern life: self-absorption or dissociation.

MILO NESBITT - The point of the expression, of course, is that music is its own form, somehow untouchable.

Sitting opposite Paul Muldoon at a London Review of Books event, the poet Anne Carson seemed something of a wry, bespectacled oracle.

These volumes offer useful insights into the presence of majoritarian nationalism in various aspects of quotidian life.

ANDREEA IULIA SCRIDON - I was born in Romania several years after the Romanian Revolution.

MICHAEL ANGERER - The peaceful world of medieval studies is hardly well-known for sparking Twitter wars - and yet here we are.

MARIAH WHELAN

ISAAC POCKNEY - We’ve all heard about the anger in his heart, and about the fury in his fists.

ROWAN WILSON - Winner of the Spring 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Will Eaves

JOHN PHIPPS - February 21. A very wet morning. Snowdrops quite out, but cold and winterly

ADAM HUSAIN - 'Amid the mud of the shore, which is rich and deep, we (once) saw a half-submerged thing. It was mud-covered too, bluish-gray'

GRACE CAMPBELL - Eimear McBride's latest novel explores one woman's attempts to move beyond grief.

LUKE ROBERTS - Reevaluating misguided optimism in a time of crisis.

MADELEINE MORI

MADELEINE MORI

SHANLEY MCCONNELL - ‘If everyone were this sad on the outside, the world would be silent and lonely.’