Our June online issue features an interview with Canadian artist and writer Moyra Davey As interviewer Hannah Gregory points out, Davey’s photography has a kind of ‘literariness, without any heaviness’, and the artist herself sees photography as ‘a type of reading a reading/writing machine’ In the interview, which is appropriately an epistolary one, she unpacks this relationship, touching on her affinities for walking, Sontag, and Elizabeth Bishop, among others   Also in the issue: an excerpt from Hollow Heart, the second book from Italian novelist Viola Di Grado, who’s work has been lauded as a ‘sophisticated, subtle meditation on language and its failures’; Chris Power tussles with CRPGs in his short story, ‘Gandalf Goes East’; selections from a new series by New York poet Mónica de la Torre; William Watkin considers the cultural history of beheading and imagines Jihadi John as a student in his lecture; and Chelsea Hogue weighs Clayton Cubitt’s Hysterical Literature against the ways ‘sisterhood’ is ‘metastasised as commercial’ in soap adverts   We’ve also featured a selection from Somerset House’s inaugural photography fair, Photo London, including works from such artists as Noemie Goudal, William Klein, and Berenice Abbott At the fair, the John Kobal Foundation residency award for the most outstanding emerging photographer was presented to Daisuke Yokota, featured in The White Review No 13, for ‘his meticulous approach to photographic experimentation, combined at times with visceral performances’   Published at the same time but separate to this month’s online issue is Jennifer Hodgson & Patricia Waugh’s ‘On the Exaggerated Notions of a Decline in British Fiction’ ‘In a culture where all too often literary ‘innovation’ is read as ‘degeneration’, where the experimental novelist is viewed as a case of narcissistic personality disorder, and where the new is identified with a ‘creeping’ cosmopolitanism that dilutes the local produce,’ write Hodgson & Waugh, ‘the very idea of British innovative fiction comes to sound like an oxymoronic supplement – a kind of pharmakon – to the idea of the moronic inferno’ Originally published in The White Review No 7, this essay is now available online, in full, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of the British novel

This May online issue features Owen Booth’s short story ‘I Told You I’d Buy You Anything You Wanted So You Asked For A Submarine Fleet’, winner of the 2015 White Review Short Story Prize The story will also appear in the next print issue of the magazine We’re also excited to present an excerpt from Argentinian novelist Alan Pauls’s forthcoming novel, A History of Money   We also have an interview with Maggie Nelson on her writing practice, motherhood, queerness and representation, and a conversation between Catherine Lacey and Will Chancellor, two debut novelists We also publish Bidoun contributing editor Anna della Subin’s essay on Ras Tafari   Finally, we are excited to publish Kirill Medvedev’s long prose poem, ‘Europe’ – a poet his translator, Keith Gessen, has described as the ‘first authentic post-Soviet writer’ We also feature the paintings of (E-E) Evgenij Kozlov, a member of the avant-garde ‘New Artists’ movement that sprang out of the St Petersburg arts scene in the early 1980s

We’re excited to be publishing a contemporary version of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by artists Vanessa Hodgkinson and James Bridle, which you can download, print out, and make into a miniature book Hodgkinson and Bridle’s essays on the text and type accompany the book Following our event at Printed Matter’s 2014 New York Art Book Fair with BOMB Magazine, our October online issue features an interview with innovative New York filmmaker Jem Cohen, who navigates the vernacular of commercialism, and the intersections of narrative, documentary, music, activism and film Also in the issue are an interview with Nigerian multimedia artist Otobong Nkanga; another with conceptual poet Vanessa Place, whose latest venture VanessaPlaceInc is ‘a trans-national corporation whose sole mission is to design and manufacture objects to meet the poetic needs of the human heart, face, and form’; new poetry by the Danish poet Martin Glaz Serup; an excerpt from Forrest Gander’s forthcoming novel, The Trace; a video from New York experimental opera group Object Collection; and Laurence A Rickels’s essay on undeath in the work of Ulrike Ottinger and Elfriede Jelinek