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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

This is an excerpt from the middle of a longer poem The full poem is in Moschovakis’s forthcoming book, They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This (Coffee House Press, 2016)   ***   The government [should] subsidize struggling museums, theaters, and artists I [am] troubled by the eroding distinction between entertainment and marketing Protesters cause [more] good than harm A person [cannot] be truly spiritual without regularly attending church or temple Something like [the theory of natural selection] explains why some people are homeless If countries are unwilling to cooperate with our military plans, we should treat them as [enemies]   I feel guilty when I shop at a large national chain Social justice should be the foundation of any economic system People shouldn’t be allowed to have children they can’t provide for I would defend my property with lethal force The world would be better if there were no huge corporations Professional athletes are paid too much money   The separation of church and state has demoralized our society The ‘Word of God’ exists only as human beings interpret it We need stronger laws protecting the environment I would feel better if there were video cameras on most street corners It should be legal for consenting adults to challenge each other to a duel       I took a break from my condition to start translating a novel — a story about neo-Nazis in Paris, France — it’s set in the late ’90s, when I was living in Paris — the protagonist and I lived on the very same street — sometimes a place moves to the center of a life — the author of the book is politically on the left — my father lived through the occupations of Athens — three times his home was taken over by soldiers — the novel makes an argument about slippage at the extremes — how it’s possible to move effortlessly between far left and far right — it offers as an example one Jacques Doriot — communist mayor in the ’30s of Saint-Denis — a suburb of Paris at its northern fringe — my father didn’t talk about that part of his childhood — I never could be sure that my impression of it was real — there was one story he liked

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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poetry

April 2012

Jules & moi

Heather Hartley

poetry

April 2012

80% of success is showing up. —Woody Allen   A morning of tiles, park benches & sun, green, un-...

feature

May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

feature

May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

fiction

January 2016

By the River

Esther Kinsky

TR. Martin Chalmers

fiction

January 2016

  For Aljoscha   ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY   Under my finger the map, this quiet pale blue of the...

 

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