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Amber Husain

Amber Husain is a writer, academic and publisher. She is currently a managing editor and research fellow at Afterall, Central Saint Martins. Her essays and criticism appear or are forthcoming in 3AM, The Believer, London Review of Books, LA Review of Books, Radical Philosophy and elsewhere. She is the author of Replace Me, to be published by Peninsula Press in November 2021.



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Slouching Towards Death

Book Review

July 2021

Amber Husain

Book Review

July 2021

In January, a preview excerpt in The New Yorker of Rachel Kushner’s essay collection The Hard Crowd (2021) warned us that this might turn...

Book Review

August 2020

Natasha Stagg’s ‘Sleeveless’

Amber Husain

Book Review

August 2020

‘The thong is centimetres closer to areas of arousal,’ writes Natasha Stagg in Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York,...

By the looks of it, not much has changed for The White Review This new edition, like its predecessors, features the customary blend of interviews, fiction, essays, poetry and artwork, and gives pride of place to talented young writers such as Jack Cox, whose story ‘The Fishermen’ opens the issue Subscribers will also notice that we have stuck to our tradition of stretching the calendrical boundaries of the quarterly publishing cycle So what is new? A sea change for The White Review was the obtainment of charitable status late this summer As a registered charity, we aim to promote ‘the arts and literature for the benefit of the public by the publication of an arts and literary journal and the organisation of artistic and literary events specialising in artistically or educationally meritorious works of new or emerging artists and writers’ What this means, in effect, is that we are eligible for gift-aid on all donations We would also like to expand our charitable board of Trustees — currently a triumvirate, including both editors – in the hope that The White Review can continue to flourish In the meantime, as we figure out how to reclaim gift-aid (these things do not come easily to us), we have stepped tentatively into the realm of advertising as a way of part-funding our production costs We are pleased to have secured the support of a small number of similarly-minded cultural organisations such as the Wellcome Trust in this endeavour   The last – and most exciting – development, is the launch of a short story prize, imaginatively named The White Review Short Story Prize Funded by a generous £2,500 grant from the Jerwood Charitable foundation, all of which will be awarded to the winner, the prize is open to submissions until 1 March 2013 This competition, to be judged by writer Deborah Levy, editor Alex Bowler and literary agent Karolina Sutton, will reward the best story submitted to The White Review by an unpublished writer residing in Great Britain or Ireland (details here) Meanwhile, there is an issue to read As ever, we hope it inspires, provokes,

Contributor

November 2018

Amber Husain

Contributor

November 2018

Amber Husain is a writer, academic and publisher. She is currently a managing editor and research fellow at Afterall,...

On Having No Skin: Nan Goldin’s Sirens

Art Review

January 2020

Amber Husain

Art Review

January 2020

The feeling of drug-induced euphoria could be strips of gauze between beautiful fingers. Or a silver slinky sent down a torso by its own...
In Defence of Dead Women

Essay

November 2018

Amber Husain

Essay

November 2018

The memorial for the artist was as inconclusive as her work, or anybody’s life. Organised haphazardly on Facebook by one of her old friends,...

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poetry

Issue No. 2

Letter to Jim Jarmusch [Broken Flowers]

Jon Thompson

poetry

Issue No. 2

What they’ll know of us in future years: the large interiors of our suburban homes were designed by others...

Art

Issue No. 17

Water

Batia Suter

Art

Issue No. 17

Sources: Achate, Bilder im Stein / Josef Arnoth, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel Buchverlag, Bild der Wissenschaft 12, Dezember 1971, DVA StuttgartBasler Zeitung, Birkhäuser...

Interview

January 2016

Interview with Tor Ulven

Cecilie Schram Hoel

Alf van der Hagen

TR. Benjamin Mier-Cruz

Interview

January 2016

Tor Ulven gave this interview, his last, a year and a half before he died, leaving behind a language...

 

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