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IZABELLA SCOTT is an editor at The White Review.



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Shola von Reinhold’s ‘LOTE’

Book Review

September 2020

Izabella Scott

Book Review

September 2020

To read Shola von Reinhold’s ornate, multi-layered novel LOTE (2020) is to encounter a baroque mind. It tells the story of a queer Black...

Art Review

November 2019

Actually, the Dead are Not Dead

Izabella Scott

Art Review

November 2019

During Bergen Assembly’s opening days, I am asked to attend a number of mock funerals, including one for a...

Don’t you ever want the kind of family where you’re just allowed to be…   My brother trails off, his sad blue eyes etched with lines There are 13 years between us, and it’s been 5 since we last met We’re having brunch opposite the Henry Moore Institute The empty restaurant is decorated with imitation sweet peas, a garish canopy of purple and white plastic droops above our heads He’s insistent I eat and determined to pay   He took care of us, my sister and me He took care of everyone, even our other brother, the eldest, loudest, favourite We never called them our half-brothers, because why describe the family you saw the most as anything less than whole   He gave me my first Hooch First listen to Jagged Little Pill, hedgerows clawing at our headlights, driving fast down dark country lanes He taught me how to shape the visor on a baseball cap, how to banter I learned about my desire by observing his Furtive looking from the back seat or barstool Standing in the bathroom at a house party, trying not to watch as his girlfriend has a wee Her glossy brown hair smelt of coconuts, stone-wash denim bunched around her thighs Heartbroken when they ended   My brothers They had done everything and got away with it My mother: terrified   Approaching the barrier at Leeds station, an image of him materialises Twenty-three   years ago, a young man waiting for us on the other side That’s what physical places can do: time travel Today, I’ve arranged to meet him because he’s been absent The proper term is estranged No blowout or cross words, just a slow disappearance, like a newspaper clipping gently fading in the sun   From our brothers my sister and I learnt the art of keeping secrets We did not speak of our experiences, of difficulty or pain We disconnected Silence was easier Which is to say, our mother couldn’t cope with who we wanted to be   It would crush her   Our combined longing fills the

Contributor

September 2015

Izabella Scott

Contributor

September 2015

IZABELLA SCOTT is an editor at The White Review.

Book Review

August 2019

Jordy Rosenberg’s ‘Confessions of the Fox’

Izabella Scott

Book Review

August 2019

It’s hot as fuck, said the friend who handed me Confessions of the Fox, a faux-memoir set in eighteenth-century...

Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Echo Chamber

Art Review

November 2017

Izabella Scott

Art Review

November 2017

A lattice of diamonds and crosses, painted onto a 21-metre long wall at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, scatters my gaze. Artist Navine G....
Hot Rocks

feature

November 2016

Izabella Scott

feature

November 2016

‘We have received around 150 of them,’ Massimo Osanna tells me, as we peer into four small crates stuffed full of dusty freezer bags....
False shadows

Art

August 2016

Izabella Scott

Art

August 2016

The ‘beautiful disorder’ of the Forbidden City and the Yuanmingyuan (Garden of Perfection and Light) was first noted by the Jesuit painter Jean Denis...

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Interview

March 2017

Interview with Ondjaki

Stephen Henighan

Interview

March 2017

Ondjaki is the most prominent African writer of Portuguese from the generations born after Portugal’s five former colonies on...

Art

September 2014

On the Ground

Teju Cole

Art

September 2014

I visited Palestine in early June 2014, just before the latest wave of calamity befell its people. For eight...

poetry

January 2015

My Beloved Uncles

Tove Jansson

TR. Thomas Teal

poetry

January 2015

However tired of each other they must have grown from time to time, there was always great solidarity among...

 

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