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Orit Gat is a writer living in London. She is a contributing editor of The White Review.


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On Marriage, Netflix, and Other Things I Hate

Book Review

June 2023

Orit Gat

Book Review

June 2023

1. ‘It’s kind of crazy to shop at Target, watch Netflix, drive a Honda, and still have a husband.’   Marriage falls into a...

Book Review

July 2022

It’s Personal: Writing and Reading Through Grief

Orit Gat

Book Review

July 2022

1. A spill  I’m drinking coffee in bed and reading The Reactor. I feel so close to everything Nick...

THREE DAYS   so it’s like, we shouldn’t press our cheeks together like we think / we know because say i saw pen on my sock this morning i looked and finally let some noise pass through lodge / into my ledgers, take heart there & i thought that there was something in the words it slipped down but then all of this   my padded fingers slip on to the handles swing above us we are shifted i mean shifting through the undergrowth & i am   i have fallen over i slipped #~#~# yeah but it’s fucking cheap they’re all so frightened of him and i want some lemon drizzle & the pub & you   HERE east oxford smells like cress now burnt rubber snakes its way up st clements smokes out the morning from my eyes & now the day is rotten limes in the way i speak to you, love   (####take heart, i never hit the right keys))   so the notebook bloomed when my cola leaked & i must wait for it to dry you try to make sense of it, the brown from the red, i mean but i can’t see that you’re right all my thoughts come in full sentences i am trying to pretend they do not three weeks in muck &   three days away from you they have nothing to do with what i mean? but the radio, what men say, #hahaha somebody lives there & kicks the ticker when they should edit, circle me deeper they only know grammar, & even when you are waiting we slip on my surfaces, talk for days about how i should learn to eat again with half a broken jaw & you will be here when i sleep, three days from now   & the days past   & i am always a gutted thing with hands too cold still to work the phone                             POETA EX MACHINA for Veronica Forrest-Thomson   my voice makes the machine work the tape clicks inside but it’s just ether now   if a

Contributor

August 2014

Orit Gat

Contributor

August 2014

Orit Gat is a writer living in London. She is a contributing editor of The White Review.

Essay

September 2020

Three Finals

Orit Gat

Essay

September 2020

1998   In the summer of 2006, at a bar off Odéon, a girl I didn’t know drew a...

Anna Wiener’s ‘Uncanny Valley’

Book Review

February 2020

Orit Gat

Book Review

February 2020

1. SF vs NY   Anna Wiener found herself in the right place at the right time. That is, if that was what she...
James Bridle’s ‘New Dark Age’

Book Review

October 2018

Orit Gat

Book Review

October 2018

Halfway through James Bridle’s foreboding, at times terrifying, but ultimately motivating account of our technological present, he recounts a scene from a magazine article...
Women and Technology: History is a Cautionary Tale

Book Review

April 2018

Orit Gat

Book Review

April 2018

Few book reviews open with amateur rap, but: ‘back in the day when new media was new,’ goes the first line of a song...
Scroll, Skim, Stare

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Issue No. 16

Orit Gat

feature

Issue No. 16

1.   This is an essay about contemporary art that includes no examples. It includes no examples because its subject – artists’ websites, their...
What Can an Art Magazine Be?

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Issue No. 10

Orit Gat

feature

Issue No. 10

What can an art magazine be? Today, as the publishing industry reassesses its role in the age of the internet, the pioneering art magazine Metronome provides...

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poetry

June 2014

Oeuvres

Edouard Levé

TR. Jan Steyn

poetry

June 2014

1. A book describes works that the author has conceived but not brought into being. 2. The world is...

feature

September 2012

Existere: Documenting Performance Art

David Gothard

Jo Melvin

John James

Rye Dag Holmboe

feature

September 2012

The following conversation was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in May 2012. The event took place...

poetry

June 2017

Austrian Murder Case

Phoebe Power

poetry

June 2017

At the Konditorei   Close, warm, and humming with the relaxed sounds of post- midday Kaffee-Kuchen. The  cakes are...

 

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