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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....

THE TRAITOR WHO IS THE WRITER   This is an essay about writing and trauma   This is an essay about violence: of men, of armies, of women, of relationships, of gossip and memory, of having to remember and having to testify   This essay is an exercise in intimacy It questions why women on the margins have to trade in our trauma for the chance to be heard   This essay in an exercise in trust I have never discussed my writing – writing as life, as living, as central to my existence and my identity – with any of the men in my personal life I feel vulnerable enough giving them my love, giving them the pleasure of my body, giving them the power to reject me from one night to the next I discuss my writing with those who know me only as a writer: my agent, my editors, and most of all, my readers That is why I bring this essay to you: to show you where some of my writing comes from   This essay is the story of how I grew up vicariously involved in the armed struggle for Tamil self-determination This essay is the testimony of what I learned as I listened to other women share their stories of trauma   This is an essay about three women: a Tamil Tigress, a Tamil Tiger’s wife, and me       MY STORY   When did my identification with Tamil nationalism begin?   Perhaps it began when I was a newborn baby, barely a few weeks old, and my father was asked to resign from his job as a Tamil teacher at a school in Choolaimedu, Chennai He remembers the day vividly: 31 October, 1984, the day India’s Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her bodyguards Why was his resignation demanded? My father taught Tamil at the Lalchand Milapchand Dadha Senior Secondary School, a private school run by a Hindi-speaking Jain management He had crossed the point of no return by politicising his teenage students and taking them along to protest demonstrations I heard this story repeatedly over my childhood, and remain convinced that when people are punished for their beliefs, it

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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June 2012

Spinning Days of Night

Susana Medina

fiction

June 2012

Day 1 in the Season before Chaos   These were the days before the glitch. The weather was acutely...

feature

December 2012

Confessions of an Agoraphobic Victim

Dylan Trigg

feature

December 2012

The title of my essay has been stolen from another essay written in 1919.[1] In this older work, the...

Interview

March 2014

Interview with Antón Arrufat

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J. S. Tennant

Interview

March 2014

Author of the novels La noche del aguafiestas and the experimental Ejercicios para hacer de la esterilidad virtud, Antón...

 

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