OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

Simon Alderwick reviews: AGIMAT by Romalyn Ante, Small Undetectable Thefts by Yanita Georgieva and All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath

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

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

Under the sombre sky of a rainy city centre, vibrant flags in black, red, green, and white hues stood out distinctly

...as she bore both a personal and reportorial witness to the labour of “dying, when one loves life so much.”

Rushdie and Shatz merge in their interest in cosmopolitanism and exile, in the fact of finding oneself between identities...

‘We paint our toenails red, though we put shoes on our feet so no one will see our flashy toes.'

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.

As we read through Sensitive to Temperature, it becomes clear that the relationships therein are indeed sensitive to temperature.

PHILIPPA CONLON - ‘Imitation’, we are told, ‘is the sincerest form of flattery’.