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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 pink-tinted image of some metal pipes, joined together with bolts
Interview with Sara Ahmed

Interview

Issue No. 33

Rhoda Feng

Interview

Issue No. 33

Consider the exclamation mark. Medieval in origin, this blink of ink has a gift for controversy. A single point can signal a moment of...
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a rose-ringed green parakeet sits on a tree branch

Essay

June 2022

A Strange Bird

Isobel Harbison

Essay

June 2022

My parakeets fly over us at dusk. There are maybe 40 of them. They fly low, not low enough...

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a swimmer emerging from dark water in goggles and a swimming costume, arms in the air

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Issue No. 33

Editorial: Issue 33

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Issue No. 33

‘The interior of a pocket is hidden away’, writes Francis Whorrall-Campbell in the speculative manifesto ‘Pocket Theory’, a response...

a photo of four silhouetted figures on stage lit by spotlights
a photo of four silhouetted figures on stage lit by spotlights

Interview

June 2022

Interview with Wu Tsang

Jade Barget

Interview

June 2022

Image: ‘visionary company’ (2021) by Wu Tsang, at Lafayette Anticipations © Pierre Antoine   On entering Visionary Company (2020),...

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A black and white image of three women in suits and fedoras, two looking directly at the camera, one snarling away from the camera in sunglasses and a fake moustache

Essay

May 2022

A Cunning Stunt

Rose Higham-Stainton

Essay

May 2022

‘What’s the difference between a policeman’s baton and a conjuror’s wand? One’s for stunning cunts and one’s for cunning...

Essay

April 2022

Emptiness and the Shape it Takes

Alina Zubkovych

TR. Nina Murray

Essay

April 2022

East   Donbas. My relatives were miners. I did not quite grasp exactly what that meant, or what daily...

Biidaaban, a gender non conforming Anishinaabe young person drinks tea with Sabe around a kitchen table in their apartment.
Biidaaban, a gender non conforming Anishinaabe young person drinks tea with Sabe around a kitchen table in their apartment.
Interview with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Interview

April 2022

Khairani Barokka

Interview

April 2022

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is an esteemed Indigenous writer, musician, and activist, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg and a member of the Alderville First Nation. Her...
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a glowing white cross standing in mountains

Essay

March 2022

‘We Are Our Mountains’: Revisiting Artsakh

Zoe Valery

Essay

March 2022

I. Base New York. September 27, 2020   War breaks out. A war to wipe a country off the...

Interview

Issue No. 32

Interview with Ocean Vuong

Alok Vaid-Menon

Interview

Issue No. 32

‘Dear Ma, I am writing to reach you,’ begins Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019). It is an...

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a painting in which two people stand discussing a model of a building. In the background a third person is inspecting another model. the windows in the background look onto the sea
Editorial: Issue 32

feature

March 2022

feature

March 2022

‘All of our myths come out of looking at the stars and finding a metaphor for them’, says Ocean Vuong, interviewed in The White...

 

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