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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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A still from the episode of Grey's Anatomy in which Meredith leaves. She is smiling and raising a glass of champagne wearing a trench coat and a shoulder bag. She is surrounded by colleagues also holding up glasses, everyone else visible is smiling.
Attachment Barbies: On Watching Grey’s Anatomy

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March 2023

Helen Charman

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March 2023

In August 2022, ABC announced that Ellen Pompeo, currently the highest-paid actress on American network television, was leaving Grey’s Anatomy, the show on which...

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February 2023

Working Girl

Sophia Giovannitti

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February 2023

In 2021, I collapsed all of my identities onto themselves. Previously, I had written under my legal name –...

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February 2023

Chains or Whips? The Cruel Decade and its Aftermath

Kristian Vistrup Madsen

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February 2023

It seems to me that the 00s ended with the final withdrawal of NATO soldiers from Afghanistan in 2021....

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an image of the night sky lit by green streaks, which are the northern lights

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December 2022

Books of the Year

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December 2022

Every year, The White Review asks friends and contributors what books they’ve enjoyed reading and rereading.   We’re currently...

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an image of a pale pink moon in a deep blue sky, over silhouetted mountains and trees

Interview

November 2022

Interview with Valzhyna Mort

Jennifer Lee Tsai

Interview

November 2022

How can we mourn the dead within the context of historical violence, trauma and political oppression? How can their...

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November 2022

You Have Not Yet Been Defeated

Alaa Abd el-Fattah

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November 2022

RightsCon is an annual human rights conference, run by Access Now. Alaa attended the first ever RightsCon in October...
But Who Could Have Known? (Grief, Gratitude)

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October 2022

Thomas Glave

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October 2022

But how could anyone have known? Known or believed that even now, nearly three decades since your sister’s death from aggressive breast cancer at...

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October 2022

Interview with Sarah Schulman

Kristin Grogan

Interview

October 2022

In Sarah Schulman’s 1986 novel Girls, Visions and Everything she describes Gay Day, the gay pride march in New...

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a still from the film Alien, in which a creature is bursting out of a character's chest, covered in blood. The character is visibly in pain and covering their eyes.

Essay

October 2022

Guts

Julia Armfield

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October 2022

In Alexandra Kleeman’s 2015 novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, we are presented with the image...
Interview with Annie Ernaux

From the archive

Issue No. 23

Lauren Elkin

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Issue No. 23

In 1999, living in France for the first time, I picked up a copy of Passion simple by Annie Ernaux at the Fnac. My...

 

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