For this month’s literary review, Sophie Benbelaid takes us back to Ancient Greece with Madeline Miller’s ‘The Song of Achilles’.
Tag: Book Review
A Force of Nature: Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing
Gracie Bolt explores the reasons behind the unprecedented success of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sings.
March Review: ‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared’
A novel that “shines a hilarious, thought-provoking, unfamiliar light on the politics of history, and our experience as fallible people”
This March Anna Stephen shares her thoughts on Jonas Jonasson’s novel.
February Review: ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’
In our second February review Hetta Johnson highlights all the joys of V.E. Schwab’s ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’
January Review: ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’
Our first book review of the year comes from Khadijah Ali and her take on Mark Manson’s ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’
Environmental book worm: 5 books to read in the climate crisis
Environment, climate, and nature-related literature is becoming increasingly popular, as writers, activists and academics attempt to grapple with the complexity and scale of the climate and ecological crises we face. From personal rewilding to systemic environmental injustices and everything in between, these 5 books tackle different aspects of the crisis we find ourselves in today, Read More…
Review: ”The Discomfort of Evening” – a Freudian pastoral
In the run-up to the International Booker Prize on May the 19th, The Oxford Blue is keeping you up to speed with reviews of the shortlisted novels. ‘‘Name a single Dutch author.’’ At this question my otherwise far better-read Oxford friends go blank. It is not an oversight on their part: Dutch literature has been Read More…
Not What She Intended: a review of American Dirt
I’ve read books better written than Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt. Some were more eloquent, others more compelling, and others more believable. I’ve read immigrant stories less transparently inauthentic and seen pop culture phenomena less unapologetically shallow. But still, American Dirt was a first. I can’t claim to have read anything quite like it. And though Read More…