About The Oxford Review is conceived in the spirit of the literary salon. One should consider it a place, whether real or imagined, in which writers, critics, poets, artists, scientists, and serious readers gather around language, judgment, beauty, wit, and argument. We are interested in literature not as mere content, but as conversation conducted with intelligence, style, and consequence. We subscribe to the idea of gaiety, wit and satire that all great and longstanding magazines and literary journals were built upon. We intend to fuse the influence of British wit and clever quips with the stark observations and candour which only the US can deliver unapologetically. We are building The Oxford Review as a serious, elegant literary journal with an international outlook, publishing fiction, nonfiction, essays, criticism, and other work of literary merit. Our aim is to create a journal that feels intellectually alive, teeming with honour, decency and social respectability like that of Hôtel de Rambouillet’s French salon, beautifully curated, and worthy of long-term attention. As for any questions about who is running the magazine, our masthead at The Oxford Review offers the best introduction. You will find that our team consists of renowned writers, directors and artists who are not only distinguished in the literary and artistic world, but many were educated at Oxford, Harvard, or both. The Oxford Review is drawn to art with lineage: the sinuous elegance of Art Nouveau, the symbolic intensity of the pre-Raphaelites, Golden Age Illustrations, Bella Époque Satire, Early Modernist, 20’s Commercial Art, Edwardian, Urban Street Portraiture Art and the unsettling sweetness of the modern Surrealists. We are not looking for decoration alone. We would like images with unexpected juxtapositions, atmosphere, and a monocle focus. One’s work should arrest the eye, carry emotional theme, whisper of a golden age, and linger after the page has turned. The Oxford Review will publish quarterly as a digital issue, select pieces will run regularly on our social media and website and few debut authors will be reserved for our carefully curated seasonal print editions. Our inaugural US issue will bring together fiction, poetry, essays, criticism, and selected excerpts from writers of literary distinction and strong voice. We are looking for work that has life in it: work with pressure, elegance, nerve, and imaginative force. We intend to use the scaffolding from the old world to rebuild the golden age upon us.

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Readers

We will welcome new reader applications in July 2026.

Reader applications (include a brief statement of interest and CV) can be mailed directly to editor@theoxfordreview.com

Thank you for your interest!