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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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Meena Kandasamy
MEENA KANDASAMY is a poet, novelist and translator. Her latest books are a translation of the love poetry of 2000-year-old Tamil classic Tirukkural (THE BOOK OF DESIRE) and her own poetry collection, TOMORROW SOMEONE WILL ARREST YOU, which is forthcoming with Atlantic Books in May 2023.

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Three Poems

Poetry

February 2023

Meena Kandasamy

Poetry

February 2023

VISA GODS   In this story, Eurydice is dark & deadly & has lived all her life in Hades. In this story, Orpheus plays...
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The Orders Were to Rape You

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Issue No. 28

Meena Kandasamy

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Issue No. 28

THE TRAITOR WHO IS THE WRITER   This is an essay about writing and trauma.   This is an essay about violence: of men,...

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