Oxford Review of Books

Oxford Review of Books

The Oxford Review of Books (ORB) is a cultural magazine affiliated with Oxford University. Established in the spring of 2017, it releases an issue every term at Oxford. The latest issue came out in November 2019. The ORB features in-depth book reviews and essays, along with diary entries, interviews, and poetry. It has interviewed a variety of notable figures, including politicians, actors, philosophers, historians, poets, classicists, and activists.

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  • Mar 3, 2025 | the-orb.org | Sarah Moorhouse

    By Sarah Moorhouse At a time when the promise of a massive advance tends to lure superstar novelists into publishing every couple of years, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an outlier: she refuses to be rushed. Dream Count, her first novel in over a decade, is worth the wait. A pandemic novel, it’s about grief, about immigrant experiences and about friendship and love.

  • Nov 3, 2024 | the-orb.org | Ian Ellison

    Art by Federica PesciniIan Ellison considers Selected Stories: Franz Kafka, translated and edited by Mark Harman(Harvard University Press 2024) and A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Short Stories by Ali Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Tommy Orange, Yiyun Li, Keith Ridgway, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Naomi Alderman, Leone Ross, and Joshua Cohen, introduced by Becca RothfeldAll quotations from the diaries of Franz Kafka are taken from:Franz Kafka, The Diaries, trans.

  • Oct 19, 2024 | the-orb.org | Nathaniel Rosenthalis

    And I was, saw the whole city,perpetually under the weather, yes,the place was sick at heart. Greed,we went under. Still, I missthat city, its cramped excuses, its low skyLiving in that city, it was like you had a feverpillar to post, always something new to see,always some new lover around the corner. Where I came from, that wasn’t just sorrow,it was reason itself, to keep your head up.

  • Apr 5, 2024 | the-orb.org | Sarah Moorhouse

    Sarah Moorhouse reviews Leslie Jamison's Splinters (Little, Brown and Company, 2024)... The problem with reviewing a book by an author whose previous work you have lapped up and whose every move you follow on Twitter is that it can be hard to evaluate their latest book on its own terms. Leslie Jamison’s Splinters was released at the end of February to enormous fanfare.

  • Mar 20, 2024 | the-orb.org | Malavika P Pillai

    By Malavika P PillaiArt by Jemima StoreyUnder the sombre sky of a rainy city centre, vibrant flags in black, red, green, and white hues stood out distinctly, even when viewed through the misty window. I sat in the warmth of a cafe, watching a chain of protesters waving flags and fervently calling for help to protect people in distress. It offered a glimpse into a world shrouded in suffering and a history of bloodshed.

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