The Oxonian Review

A literary magazine at the University of Oxford

[ramya @soulmakingg]

thank you to @OxonianReview for giving this little poem a home!

[Ewen Glass @ewenglass]

Thanks to @OxonianReview for publishing this slice of silliness 🙏 🗣️

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Congratulations to David Szalay, winner of the @TheBookerPrizes for FLESH!

From the archive, don't miss Samuel Webb's discussion of the hilarity and banality of everyday realism: https://t.co/oLcmQ225N9

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Live today, a new short story in ‘To Write #HongKong'—a freelancer weighs the precariousness of her life and profession as she navigates love, loss, and limbo: https://t.co/X69MDuxXE1

[Matthew Stewart @roguestrands]

I have a poem in The Oxonian Review today. You can read it here...

https://t.co/91mtvnyXMk

[marie ungar @mreeeungr]

I reviewed @bartlebytaco's new novel FRESH, GREEN LIFE for the @OxonianReview. In summary, I liked it a lot. In full, https://t.co/D7Fd1gB8Yn

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What's the point of a novel?

Samuel Webb reviews David Szalay's Flesh (@PenguinBooks) and considers the possibilities of everyday realism: https://t.co/oLcmQ225N9

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'There is clearly a question of power that is played out through language.'

@claudiapineiro and Frances Riddle discuss feminism, the power of language, and their latest collaboration TIME OF THE FLIES from @CharcoPress: https://t.co/4mxapO7TXE

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The ground-breaking experimental novel House of Leaves, published 25 years ago and reissued by @doubledaybooks, is eerily prescient of our new age of AI dominance.

Wilfried Kuugauraq Zibell on breaking forms and our attitude toward the truth:
https://t.co/Uc4DGCxw6n

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RIP Joshua Clover. We’re grateful we had a chance to publish his reflections on notes last year. https://t.co/iL24vqR9Ng

[Ashley Castelino @ashcastelino1]

I recently wrote a somewhat personal piece for @OxonianReview reflecting on the colonial and culinary histories of Catholic India and my attempts to connect to this heritage by learning to cook some of its iconic dishes.

Read it at https://t.co/VzgqONpMUk

[Simeon Berry @simeonberry]

“it rained all the rumors off my face. And then the wind blew everything but my expression away.” —@VChangPoet, “Song, 1962” https://t.co/jxES6dm3a4

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'I felt a kinship with Simone already—two French girls, caught in between the philosophy and literature aisles of an intellectual tradition that was not meant for them.'

Aliénor Manteau on reading and living alongside Simone de Beauvoir:
https://t.co/Uhae1yjDoU

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Today from 2-5 p.m. our editors will be hosting a drop-in session at Common Ground (Little Clarendon Street) for any writers or editors interested in working with The Oxonian.

All are welcome! Please come along with your questions and ideas.

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RIP Fredric Jameson. In 2022, we asked him about his note-taking process. He sent us a photo and a single sentence: ‘mark everything you notice in back of book, then combine them in as many categories as you can think of.’ https://t.co/jTTrUHhwiO

[Natalie Perman @natalieperman]

happy on this silver tuesday to have a new poem in @OxonianReview - thank you so much to editor Eliza Browning for taking this, on seals, lakes and mirrors https://t.co/Gsd5DoCQTs

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'Imagine walking into a Sainsbury’s. [...] The store smells like home. Everything within reach is available for purchase. There is no reason for you to leave.'

Dowon Jung on Thatcher, Sainsbury's, and the dangers of the neoliberal dream: https://t.co/JC7sDWn7Pj

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'You won't believe how the westerners risk their lives drinking water straight from the tap, how they don't get sore throats munching whole bags of Kettles crisps'. New today, from Hong Kong to London and back with @jennywcreative in '婆婆': https://t.co/UT5AP9jUd7

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Congratulations to @criveragarza, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography for LILIANA'S INVINCIBLE SUMMER.

Dive into her research and writing practice in this interview with Rivera Garza alongside author Velia Vidal: https://t.co/LOoq5CUxRm

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Live on our website today: a tongue-in-cheek impression of HK life lived abroad in political exile— and one man's unsettling attempt at finding the sense within it. Read @risoallegro's witty translation of HK writer Mukyu here: https://t.co/Qfzu4KNerY