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David Isaacs has recently completed a PhD about the ethics of rewriting at UCL. He is coming to the end of a first novel and is at the early stages of a new project about the present tense.


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Interview with Namwali Serpell

Interview

December 2020

David Isaacs

Interview

December 2020

Namwali Serpell is a rarity: an academic and novelist whose criticism is as vital as her fiction. Since we first spoke, in September 2020,...

Book Review

June 2018

Christine Schutt’s ‘Pure Hollywood’

David Isaacs

Book Review

June 2018

There is a certain kind of American novelist of the late twentieth century whose fiction fetishises plant names. The...

In her interview with the novelist Jenny Offill, Hannah Rosefield encounters Offill in the process of writing her new novel Meeting a novelist at such a point is rare: we’re used to reading a writer discussing a finished book rather than one that is still being written Offill describes how recent political events have caused her to change, edit and update her work-in-progress, explaining: ‘I’m trying to figure out how a bookish person would try to engage with this moment in time’   The White Review has always been a testing-ground for new work and ideas, and this issue in particular seems to catch a moment of change and sheer eventfulness, and captures writers and artists thinking through how we might respond to these times Earlier this year, a fourteen-day strike was staged by university staff and students against cuts to pensions Our roundtable on the university took place just after the end of the strike, and in a conversation that ranged over marketisation, workers’ rights and campus sexual harassment participants took the opportunity to reflect, discuss and debate, and to articulate thoughts-in-progress about the future of the modern university   The idea of a multi-vocal response is not alien to Kerstin Brätsch, whose belief in community, and that many hands make a painting, is discussed in an interview with this distinctive artist, followed by a selection of her ecstatic, vibrant works Following on from their electrifying performances in the UK at the start of the year, we’re delighted to feature an interview with poet Danez Smith, one of the most exciting new voices to emerge during a particularly fertile period in contemporary poetry   We’re pleased to publish a portfolio of poems by Lucy Mercer, the winner of our inaugural poetry prize, which was specifically created to recognise works-in-progress, and support poets working on their first collections The judges praised this burgeoning collection for its philosophical enquiry and range of formal experimentation in ‘poems that spoke to each other’ with sureness and authority Alongside this is fiction by Maria Hummer, which explores love in a virtual reality world, and the strange and disturbing ‘Reunion’

Contributor

August 2014

David Isaacs

Contributor

August 2014

David Isaacs has recently completed a PhD about the ethics of rewriting at UCL. He is coming to the end...

Prize Entry

April 2017

Pylons

David Isaacs

Prize Entry

April 2017

Once upon a time, Dad would begin, I think, focusing on the road, there was a man called Watt....

Seasickness

Prize Entry

April 2016

David Isaacs

Prize Entry

April 2016

‘How would you begin?’   She puts a finger to her lips, a little wrinkled still from the water, and hesitates. She says, ‘Maybe:...
How things are falling.

Prize Entry

April 2015

David Isaacs

Prize Entry

April 2015

i.   Oyster cards were first issued to members of the British public in July 2003; by June 2015 they will have been replaced...
by Accident

fiction

April 2014

David Isaacs

fiction

April 2014

[To be read aloud]   I want to begin – and I hope I don’t come across as autistic or anything like that (and...

READ NEXT

Prize Entry

April 2016

Oh Whistle and

Uschi Gatward

Prize Entry

April 2016

God has very particular political opinions – John le Carré     M is whizzing round the Cheltenham Waitrose,...

Art

May 2016

Sharon Hayes

Edwina Attlee

Art

May 2016

Sharon Hayes’ In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You at Studio Voltaire features a five-channel...

fiction

January 2014

The Black Lake

Hella S. Haasse

TR. Ina Rilke

fiction

January 2014

Oeroeg was my friend. When I think back on my childhood and adolescence, an image of Oeroeg invariably rises...

 

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