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The White Review
No. 33

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The White Review No. 33 features interviews with writer Siri Hustvedt and feminist scholar Sara Ahmed. The issue includes new fiction by Gina Apostol,...

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The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023
For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...

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Robert Assaye
Robert Assaye is a writer and critic living in London.

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Issy Wood, When You I Feel

Art Review

December 2017

Robert Assaye

Art Review

December 2017

At the centre of Issy Wood’s solo exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa is a room-within-a room. The division of the gallery into two viewing spaces –...

Art

April 2017

'Learning from Athens'

Robert Assaye

Art

April 2017

The history of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition founded in the German city of Kassel in 1955, is...

In the fiery cosmos Out of which you made             Timna Glow me in the copper Stamp my poem And let me in Your works As I let you in My muteness – God In the wasteland Of your mines Where Solomon’s souls Storm like heroes, Shape me out And mix me up, With their ancient quartzes So my blood and the stone Can fizzle With foreign Quartzes – Let me stay headstrong Stubborn And copper me out In you Timna Glow me out Go    

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August 2014

Robert Assaye

Robert Assaye

Contributor

August 2014

Robert Assaye is a writer and critic living in London.
New Communities

Art

January 2017

Robert Assaye

Art

January 2017

DeviantArt is the world’s ‘largest online community of artists and art-lovers’ and its thirteenth largest social network. Its forty million members contribute to a...
The Land Art of Julie Brook

Art

Issue No. 4

Robert Assaye

Art

Issue No. 4

Julie Brook works with the land. Over the past twenty years she has lived and worked in a succession of inhospitable locations, creating sculptures...

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I strayed into the church on an impulse. It was a mistake to get off the bus in the...

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