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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 Mole says: name, and I answer I waited for him at the indicated location and he picked me up in the Peugeot that I’m now driving We’ve just met He doesn’t look at me, they say he never looks anyone in the eyes Age, he says, 42 I say, and when he says that I’m old I think that he’s definitely older He wears little black sunglasses and this must be why they call him the Mole He tells me to drive to the closest square, settles into his seat and relaxes The test is easy but it’s very important to pass and for this reason I’m nervous If I don’t do a good job, I’m not in, and if I’m not in there’s no money, there’s no other reason to join Beating a dog to death in the port of Buenos Aires is the test to find out whether you’re willing to do something worse They say: something worse, and look away, as if we, those on the outside, don’t know that it’s worse to kill a person, to beat a person to death When the avenue splits into two streets I choose the less busy one A line of stoplights changes from red to green, one after another, and lets us advance quickly until a dark, green space emerges from between the buildings I think that maybe there are no dogs in this square, and the Mole orders me to stop You didn’t bring a club, he says No, I say But you’re not going to beat a dog to death if you don’t have anything to beat it with I look at him but don’t answer, I know he’s going to say something, because now I know him, it’s easy to figure him out But he enjoys the silence, he enjoys thinking that each word that he says is a point against me Then he gulps and seems to think: he’s not going to kill anyone And finally he says: today there’s a shovel in the trunk, you can use it And no doubt, behind

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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Art

May 2015

(E-E) Evgenij Kozlov

E-E

Art

May 2015

Madder than the World is a series by Russian artist (E-E) Evgenij Kozlov, who came to prominence as a founding member of the...

poetry

September 2011

Nigel

Patrick Langley

poetry

September 2011

Jamie sat alone at the edge of the dance floor and wondered how long it would be until Nigel...

fiction

June 2017

Turksib

Lutz Seiler

TR. Alexander Booth

fiction

June 2017

The jolts of the tracks were stronger now and came at irregular intervals. With my arms outstretched, I held...

 

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