The OLR Supplement is the online, non-peer reviewed platform of the Oxford Literary Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by Edinburgh University Press. We invite reviews of books in our main areas of interest: deconstruction, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, continental philosophy, feminist and queer theory, postcolonial theory, theoretical approaches to ecology and eco-criticism, and critical philosophy of race. We also publish essays informed by these theoretical approaches on current events and contemporary culture, and interviews with authors working in these fields.
Founded in 1977, OLR devotes itself to outstanding writing in deconstruction, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, political theory and related forms of exploratory thought. For the last four decades, the journal has remained responsive to new theoretical concerns, publishing work by many trailblazing thinkers who have advanced the movement of deconstructive thought in as many forms and within as many institutions as possible.
One of the hallmarks of OLR since its inception has been its commitment to patient, inventive reading as the wellspring of critical research. The decision to launch The OLR Supplement reaffirms this commitment. In harnessing some of the advantages of digital publishing, we hope to expand the journal’s reviewing capacity, increase the timeliness of our published reviews, and grant authors the freedom of space and form to find how best to respond to the singular event which the publication of a book always is. We also hope to help track and amplify the many contemporary afterlives of deconstruction, and of theory more broadly.