14 November, 2011

Francis Hutton-Williams

Pulverizing the Pretty Charlock

The second volume of Samuel Beckett's Letters documents the writer's correspondences during the Second World War.


Chris Maughan

Ecocriticism

Literature faces ecological concerns in Timothy Clark's The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment.


Grace Egan

The Frost of Winter

A new edition of Dorothy Edwards' Winter Sonata brings an overlooked modernist classic in from the cold.


Rahul Prabhakar

La Ville-Lumière

David McCullough's The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris recounts the history of US migration to the City of Light.


Tom Astley

Futureproof

Adam Harper's Infinite Music offers musings on the direction of music while guarding against the pitfalls of futurology.


31 October, 2011

Paul Sweeten

An Interview with George Szirtes

Poet and translator George Szirtes talks to the Oxonian Review about language, photographs and winning the T.S. Eliot prize.


Tim Smith-Laing

Dante in Love

A.N. Wilson's Dante in Love shows genuine love and learning of the Commedia, yet struggles to contain Dante’s world.


Mike Jakeman

The Dark Art

Amol Rajan's Twirlymen and Shehan Karunatilaka's Chinaman explore cricket's most arcane skill: the art of spin bowling.


Jane Han

Temple of Dreams

Jane Han takes a journey through Rome’s fabled Cinecitta, finding the skeletal remains of the once legendary film studios.


Luke Smith

Four Poems: Luke Smith

Original poetry by Luke Smith.