OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

Staging grief is a delicate balancing act.

I walked slowly on the cobbled pathways, towards the main tower, up steep stone steps, and… oh, to be a 13th century laird!

HARRY LEDGERWOOD - In Slovak, catastrophe is katastrofa.

Michaela Brady reflects on the dignified silence of Riga, Latvia

GRACE DOWLING - To travel to a place is to assume it has something to offer you. Last summer I visited Brest...

JEM BARTHOLOMEW - Why do we visit authors' homes?

ALEC SHELLINX - Observing John Cage's silences at the Tate.

MIA WU - Self-discovery in a Shanghai Covid-19 state quarantine facility.

GEMMA BINGHAM - A love letter to letter writing in the 21st century.

SERENA ALAGAPPAN — A meditation on sarcasm, sincerity, and lazy alliteration.

ISABELLA LILL – A review of Julian Opie's online art exhibition.

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.'

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 ...

KIANA REZAKHANLOU – Musings on the heritage plaques of her neighbourhood.

O T Jones - an exploration of the iconographic duality which masks the divisions of modern Ukraine.

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

LEWIS ROBERTS - A travelogue uncovering the mystery of Simeon Solomon, a lesser known member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

MADELEINE BALLARD -It was the Ur-language for 90 million speakers, literally the code for another way of life.

SHANNON OSAKA -A report from the twenty-fourth United Nations Climate Conference.

ARJUNA KESHVANI-HAM finds out if a Charing-Cross bookshop is still the hub of London bohemian life