OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

PHILIPPA MONK reviews Mary Fissell’s long-overdue history of abortion.

FRANCESCA GARDNER - Shoelaces in metaphor, practice and as literary form.

J L M MORTON shares an extract from her lyrical exploration of care, kinship and pilgrimage.

AISLING TOWL - Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and the revival of a British classic.

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

RUTH THRUSH on the labour of reading and translating Capital.

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

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

JOSH ABBEY - Cornell’s phantastic metafiction, in review.

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

MATILDA SIDEL - Women in Dark Times, in review.

Hourani’s poetry is as meditative as it is proactive: it finds in the poet’s prerogative to organise a method of resistance. 

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

SARA ELBANNA - Egypt's climate activists dream of a future beyond capitalism

SARAH MOORHOUSE - Penning a personal brand as a 21st Century author

EAR TO THE EARTH - On Esther Kinsky's earthquake wake

LUCY THYNNE - George Saunders embraces his kind absurdity

JOSHUA TAYLOR - Reconsidering the University in the age of culture wars

CHARLIE TAYLOR - Russia’s independent media during the war with Ukraine.

PAIGE ALLEN - Albanese and Kingsolver explore old novels in new places