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SPRING 2025

Current Issue

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Featuring a wide variety of opinion pieces, reviews on striking new releases and prescient reprints, and interviews with literary figures. This edition features Paul B. Preciado and Ta-Nehisi Coates in review, and Ange Mlinko in conversation.

The new edition is now available for print order.

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FEATURED

Re-rooting

HADASSAH WILLIAMS on Jason Allen-Paisant and (re-)relating to the land.

REVIEWS

Apr 36 min read

Strange Folk, Country Folk, Trendy Folk

WILL HALE on the marketisation of folk and country living.

DIARY

Apr 15 min read

Hinges, Keyholes and Card Games

OLIVIA SANDHU on A E Stallings and ‘winding up’ poems with classical allusion.

REVIEWS

Mar 237 min read

In Review: Dream Count

SARAH MOORHOUSE - A powerhouse Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in review.

REVIEWS

Mar 35 min read

Beyond Bare Life

MATILDA SIDEL - Women in Dark Times, in review.

REVIEWS

Feb 257 min read

Five green apples, drawn in sketchy pencil on a wooden floor.

Seeding

MADELEINE JACOB - Winner of the ORB’s MT24 Short Fiction Prize.

FICTION

Feb 203 min read

A Hotel Mindset

MADELEINE JACOB reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Jim Crow South, Palestine, and learning from the past.

REVIEWS

Apr 196 min read

Saplings in the Inkwell

AUSTIN SPENDLOWE - Ange Mlinko on plants, print and pragmatism.

IN CONVERSATION

Apr 146 min read

Classically Trained

JUAN FUEYO-GOMEZ - Daniel Mendelsohn on relating to and reworking Ancient Greece.

IN CONVERSATION

Apr 117 min read

REVIEWS

A Hotel Mindset

MADELEINE JACOB reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Jim Crow South, Palestine, and learning from the past.

Mistaking Marx

RUTH THRUSH on the labour of reading and translating Capital.

Re-rooting

HADASSAH WILLIAMS on Jason Allen-Paisant and (re-)relating to the land.

Hinges, Keyholes and Card Games

OLIVIA SANDHU on A E Stallings and ‘winding up’ poems with classical allusion.

ESSAYS

Petrolhead!

ISABELLA SANAI on infiltrating classic-car-geek-dom, as a woman.

Strange Folk, Country Folk, Trendy Folk

WILL HALE on the marketisation of folk and country living.

Public Enemy to Local Hero

ROSE BROOKFIELD - The changing status of the pigeon.

The Definition of Insanity: The Tory misdiagnosis of Britain’s mental health crisis

A misdiagnosis has been made — and our nation’s mental wellbeing will continue to deteriorate until the true source is identified.

IN CONVERSATION

Saplings in the Inkwell

AUSTIN SPENDLOWE - Ange Mlinko on plants, print and pragmatism.

The Oxford Review of Books

Classically Trained

JUAN FUEYO-GOMEZ - Daniel Mendelsohn on relating to and reworking Ancient Greece.

The Oxford Review of Books

States of Disrepair

CATHERINE BORTHWICK - Vincent Bevins on participatory political reporting.

The Oxford Review of Books

CURATOR'S PICK

Kathleen Quaintance

FICTION

Seeding

MADELEINE JACOB - Winner of the ORB’s MT24 Short Fiction Prize.

Object Study

We can find her reflection anywhere: and see how she is rendered in perfect relief.

Verschollen

I left the man at Alexanderplatz for a different man who said we should drink some Marillenschnaps and forget who we were.

Small Hours

Was it really October, the last time you saw him?

POETRY

Prospectus

LEO KANG - ‘But mizzle, bitten thing…’

Kenrap of the Phuktal Monastery

CASPIAN FLINT - ‘Through slatted window rings / the mountain embalmed a bell…’

Atlantis

You had to be there.

Seven Poems (Assorted)

The Oxford Review of Books presents seven assorted poems from a group of talented writers.

INTERVIEWS

Classically Trained

JUAN FUEYO-GOMEZ - Daniel Mendelsohn on relating to and reworking Ancient Greece.

States of Disrepair

CATHERINE BORTHWICK - Vincent Bevins on participatory political reporting.

Wild Typography and Bootleg Books: An Interview with Leah Whitman-Salkin

"We have a bootlegging practice where we print and bind books ourselves. "

Bake Your Feelings with Becca Rea-Tucker

"Wait, why is this cake talking about abortion access?"

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A Hotel Mindset

REVIEWS

Saplings in the Inkwell

IN CONVERSATION

Classically Trained

IN CONVERSATION

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SPRING 2025

Current Issue

Published in association with Stanford University

FEATURED

Re-rooting

Strange Folk, Country Folk, Trendy Folk

Hinges, Keyholes and Card Games

In Review: Dream Count

Beyond Bare Life

Seeding

A Hotel Mindset

Saplings in the Inkwell

Classically Trained

REVIEWS

A Hotel Mindset

Mistaking Marx

Re-rooting

Hinges, Keyholes and Card Games

ESSAYS

Petrolhead!

Strange Folk, Country Folk, Trendy Folk

Public Enemy to Local Hero

The Definition of Insanity: The Tory misdiagnosis of Britain’s mental health crisis

IN CONVERSATION

Saplings in the Inkwell

Classically Trained

States of Disrepair

CURATOR'S PICK

Kathleen Quaintance

FICTION

Seeding

Object Study

Verschollen

Small Hours

POETRY

Prospectus

Kenrap of the Phuktal Monastery

Atlantis

Seven Poems (Assorted)

INTERVIEWS

Classically Trained

States of Disrepair

Wild Typography and Bootleg Books: An Interview with Leah Whitman-Salkin

Bake Your Feelings with Becca Rea-Tucker

LAST ISSUE ARCHIVE

A Hotel Mindset

Saplings in the Inkwell

Classically Trained

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