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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...

SKITAFLIT, DAY 49   704 Dawn Breaks above the grey-dusted grey-fronted houses 903 Well the office is looking just lovely today 916 Crazy Katy has stolen my pencils again 918 Actually she is denying all knowledge of my pencils 920 Still, who else would have stolen a perfectly good set of pencils? Who? 922 Crazy Katy writes, I know you’re writing about me If I want to I’ll go and find it I say, fine, go and find it, whatever 924 Crazy Katy says, I won’t bother, it’s too pathetic But of course she’ll look anyway     1100 Mother Mary and the blessed saints, that was a long meetingmeetingmeeting 1105 This morning I had three meeting meeting meeting and tomorrow I have seven meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting 1109 During the rest of my working life I will have 45,000 meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting 1454 A pause during which I was seized by a mild bout of complete and utter futility but I think it’s passed at least for the time being 1457 At least for now 1516 If a ten tonne truck crashes into us 1517 To die by your side, the pleasure the privilege is mine 1519 I don’t mean by your side, Crazy Katy, not yours – if you’re looking, which I know you are 1523 There is a light that never goes out 1526 I don’t know, perhaps it could be an allegory for faith or hope or something but perhaps it could just mean: 1527 There is a light that never goes out 1735 Thank Christ I am going home     CYN23, DAY 49   901 Oh do not ask me what I am 902 I know what I am 903 I am human I am dynamite     MANNATING, DAY 49   1335 Gorgons awake, I have lost my charger 1405 If it all goes black, it really all goes black 1430 So I have developed a new sense of the temporal continuum 1445 and instead of going forwards I am now going sideways 1446 Crabwise 1501 So in fact these progressions by minute by minute by minute 1504 are not happening in a linear forwards motion but are going along to the side – edging – 1510 and instead of us proceeding onwards to some destination 1511

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

feature

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?

feature

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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feature

September 2015

Immigrant Freedoms

Benjamin Markovits

feature

September 2015

My grandmother, known to us all as Mutti, caught one of the last trains out of Gotenhafen before the...

poetry

September 2011

Sleepwalking through the Mekong

Michael Earl Craig

poetry

September 2011

I have my hands out in front of me. I’m lightly patting down everything I come across. I somehow...

Art

Issue No. 3

Dead Unicorns: Apocalyptic Anxiety in Canadian Art

Vanessa Nicholas

Art

Issue No. 3

David Altmejd’s installation for the Canada Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale was a complex labyrinth of ferns, nests...

 

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