OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

Camille Ralphs on poetry, difficulty and history.

Hatchards manager Francis Cleverdon on contemporary bookselling

By 1951 the Iraqi-Jewish community, which had been in the region for over two thousand years, was faced with an existential choice.

In this interview, Jennifer talked to poet Marilyn Chin to find out more about her reflections on writing.

We all feel a bit like ‘a different person’ sometimes - even that phrase interests me. Different from what?

Andrew O’Hagan arrives in the back of a taxi from central London, he rushes in and apologises for running late.

An interview with Dr Daniel Mason, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Stanford faculty psychiatrist, and author of North Woods (2023).

Professor Nigel Biggar CBE answers questions from the ORB

'Do you suppose any mortal has skill enough to make a butterfly?’

ELEANOR CLARK and RACHEL REES - An interview with Tom Crewe

WALLERAND BAZIN and ELISABETH DARROBERS - Andreas Malm from Fossil Capital to Overshoot

SAMUEL KING - Emma Smith on All Souls and Shakespeare

SRUTOKIRTI BASAK - Jhumpa Lahiri on the monstrosities of language

SRUTOKIRTI BASAK, KATHERINE FRANCO - Feminist thinker Jacqueline Rose on the merits of uncertainty.

AAMIR KADERBHAI - Ruth Ozeki on Zen meditation and the art of writing.

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

ELIZA BROWNING - Cal Flyn on the aesthetics of abandonment.

PAIGE ALLEN - Rebecca F. Kuang on her anticolonial Oxford fantasy novel.

ELEANOR HALLESY - Helen Thompson on how we got here and how we get to net zero.

ELIZABETH MURPHY - In conversation with Oxford student poet Natalie Perman.