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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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Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh's fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago X Stylist short story prize. Her debut novel, The Water Cure, is published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and forthcoming from Doubleday in the US.

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Lena Andersson's ‘Acts of Infidelity’

Book Review

July 2018

Sophie Mackintosh

Book Review

July 2018

Acts of Infidelity is the second novel by Lena Andersson that follows unlucky-in-love heroine Ester Nilsson, and it’s another scalpel-sharp look at a doomed...

Fiction

May 2018

Self-Improvement

Sophie Mackintosh

Fiction

May 2018

I had been sent back from the city in disgrace, back to my parents’ house in the country. It...

The White Review No 8 is available to purchase online and in the bookshops listed here  Please note that the prices listed below are inclusive of postage and packaging  – Editorial Estate by China Miéville (Fiction) Chris Kraus (Interview) A Fictive Retrospective of the Bruce High Quality Foundation by Legacy Russell (Art) Poems by John Ashbery, Jack Underwood and Sumana Roy (Poetry) Claudia Wieser (Art) The Croatian Fairy by Dubravka Ugrešić (tr David Williams) (Essay) Sophie Calle (Interview) On Queensway Market, or How to Care about Things by Orlando Reade (Essay) Untyping by Eley Williams (Fiction) Deborah Levy (Interview) Guy Gormley (Art) The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi by Eugene Ostashevsky (Poetry) Barking from the Margins: On Écriture Féminine by Lauren Elkin (Essay) The Lady of the House by Claire-Louise Bennett (Fiction) *** Cover art by Ben Berlow

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April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh

Contributor

April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh’s fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the...
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Sophie Mackintosh

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Issue No. 17

14. It comes for me in the middle of the day when I am preparing lunch, quartering a tomato then slicing each segment in...

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