OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

Kafka’s protagonists, both human and animal, often find themselves caged.

Sally Rooney’s new book wriggles under new (and old) constraints.

Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon, had knockout feet. Few who saw them in action would deny it.

Kim’s debut chapbook Invisible Cartographies, published September 2024 by New Delta Review, is perhaps a collection of thundereggs.

Elias Canetti asks if language is the barrier to understanding some kind of universal mortality.

Leslie Jamison’s Splinters was released at the end of February to enormous fanfare.

The original function of the novel, V.S. Naipaul once suggested, was to give us news: to provide society with a very clear idea of itself.

SARAH MOORHOUSE - Both Starnone and Ferrante are interested in our imperfect understanding of others.

KAT FRIEGE- The British photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer had an artistic eye.