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May 14, 20218 min read
Eyes Down: Walking as Thinking
CHARLIE LEE-POTTER – 'Each thudding footstep feels hypnotic and I keep my eyes on the ground as I try to think my ideas into existence.'
May 10, 20219 min read
Time to Lose
TESS SOLOMON - The pandemic has exposed the ways in which time can both distort and be distorted.
May 7, 202110 min read
The Uncanny Feeling of Difference
GIANNI DE FALCO - A celebration of Black Country, New Road's self-reflexive triumph.
May 3, 20217 min read
Narrative Tenderness
ALEKSANDRA MAJAK - A reflection on the boundary-crossing writing of Olga Tokarczuk.
Apr 26, 20213 min read
Watching America from Islamabad
NINA ELLIS - On Inauguration Day, my boyfriend and I set up a projector in our living room and invited our COVID bubble to join us ...
Apr 23, 20214 min read
A Conversational Art No.1, Caleb Azumah Nelson
CALEB AZUMAH NELSON - When writing Open Water, I was aware that this idea of truth kept emerging ...
Apr 21, 20218 min read
An Examined Life
PATRICK HAYES - A review of Blake Bailey's biography of the legendary American writer, Philip Roth.
Apr 19, 20211 min read
Down the Telescope Barrel
HELENA AEBERLI – 'I want to unpeel the universe / with my fingernails / and dig out the planets'
Apr 16, 20211 min read
Móníyà Station
SALAWU OLAJIDE – 'At the back of the yellow container is the makeshift reception...'
Apr 12, 20211 min read
Learning to Pray
CIA MANGAT – 'swishing water from the bottle between my lips I witnessed feet like pale fish overlapping'
Apr 11, 20214 min read
On the Nature of Being Ella
EVA HIBBS – Second runner-up of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
Apr 11, 20211 min read
Painting x Poetry
The following collages were produced by a collaboration between Industry Magazine and the Oxford Review of Books. Artists illustrated in...
Apr 9, 20216 min read
Feathers
ANNA COOPER – Runner-up of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
Apr 7, 20215 min read
My Venus
CHARLIE KITE – Winner of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
Mar 29, 20219 min read
An Old Soul
WILLIAM NEUBAUER – An examination of the trials and joys of canonising soul music.
Mar 10, 20211 min read
Spring 2021 Issue
SPRING 2021 ISSUE – Online version of our Spring 2021 Issue.
Feb 1, 20219 min read
Square Life
ALTAIR BRANDON-SALMON – Examining Bloomsbury's Mecklenburgh Square, its inhabitants and their aspirations.
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Poem
BORA REX – 'The fall-short, piecemeal filling of a punnet of orange apricots'.
Jan 22, 20218 min read
Christmas Cards from Marla
LAURA HANKINS – Runner-up of the Autumn 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Monica Ali.
Jan 18, 20219 min read
Heritage in Blue
KIANA REZAKHANLOU – Musings on the heritage plaques of her neighbourhood.
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