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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....

Letter from a New City to an Old Friend     [SEAside          Gra-                         -im Ronny Burhop 1987-2010                                                                      ffiti]   [adjust             Even the white noise here is different—        trACKing] there’s no boulevard, no blue and breathing ocean The streets—more quiet now, winding through rain, hidden parks and open markets— [chriiiiiiiing] are cobbled, and twist off into alleys less sinister than ours There’s history [REprise] in the street names, true—but the mystery, the footsteps’ muffled click, the concrete sea bRZeE rolling below my window is tame, bloodless… [BRiX ‘98] We fell off the world for years in LA [SoDen I can only remember the haze now,             eAcH       corP how our vista was never really clear                                       oWn of smog, or planes, or neon bellied clouds                                           a sOul?]   I split Left you standing with a pocket [My grambag                full of lock-                            of                  less keys, a few bucks, two lighters and I tRixY                         drove the forty miles back home Years later, rEds]                                        I’m hoping, perhaps we can just look back,                                         tuchhhh—                                                                                —MIDAZ recall it before the cards were flipped— our own Cassidy and Sundance era?    (EPIX x I turned my back on California,                             X) on those two-for-one, from out the Honda [Malverde]       hustlers, sunburned illegals, los santos… And I have thought about nothing else, since   I heard about your dazzling surrender [oUr buRnT-    Guess I should ask ‘from whose bourn’ and all that, but I can’t fucking see how it matters oUt      SCAPE]                                                           Anyways, it’s probably December right now in your coastal town, every crow                 * JauREZ— crowding the power lines, jostling Each one                                       Bosnia vacant, thinking only of its single                    del SUR* green walnut, the distance to the pavement                             ‘grAFT’                                                             -NoV16, 2009-    

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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

September 2011

The Cinematographer, a 42-year-old man named Miyagawa, aimed his camera directly at the sun, which at first probably seemed like a bad idea

Michael Earl Craig

poetry

September 2011

Last night Kurosawa’s woodcutter strode through the forest, his axe on his shoulder. Intense sunlight stabbed and sparkled and...

Art

June 2012

'The Freedom of Speech Itself', or the betrayal of the voice

Lorena Muñoz-Alonso

Art

June 2012

‘The instability of an accent, its borrowed and hybridised phonetic form, is testimony not to someone’s origins but only...

Art

October 2012

Mitra Tabrizian's Another Country

Matt Mahon

Mitra Tabrizian

Art

October 2012

Mitra Tabrizian’s Another Country (2010), a collection of nine large-scale photographs taken between 2009-2010, present to the viewer an...

 

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