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Jessie Greengrass’s ‘Sight’

Book Review

February 2018

Jonathan Gibbs

Book Review

February 2018

Jessie Greengrass’s debut story collection caught my eye with its delightfully extravagant title, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to...

Art Review

February 2018

Nicolas Party, Speakers; Hannah Ryggen, Woven Histories

Lili Owen Rowlands

Art Review

February 2018

The limestone statue of the diamond trader, imperialist and racist Cecil Rhodes that adorns the façade of Oxford’s Oriel...

Art Review

January 2018

Ngozi Onwurah, Three Short Films

Rashida Seriki

Art Review

January 2018

Three of Ngozi Onwurah’s exceptional shorts were screened at the fifteenth London Short Film Festival this January. Ngozi was a...

Book Review

January 2018

David Hayden’s ‘Darker With the Lights On’

Brian Dillon

Book Review

January 2018

In his 1970 essay ‘The Concept of Character in Fiction’, the late William H. Gass wrote that those entities...

Art Review

January 2018

RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE, TWILIGHT LANGUAGE

Priya Khanchandani

Art Review

January 2018

As you enter Raqs Media Collective’s exhibition ‘Twilight Language’ at the Whitworth in Manchester, the gallery lights are dimmed: as...

Book Review

January 2018

Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Her Body and Other Parties’

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

January 2018

I’m reluctant to admit this but it’s often easier for me to write about a book I hated rather...

Maja Čule, Mouth

Art Review

January 2018

Nadia Quadmani

Art Review

January 2018

The contemporary hunter-gatherer does not hunt to survive. Rather, he (neo-survivalism is a predominantly heterosexual male pursuit) forages for something else, something experientially ‘Other’....

Book Review

January 2018

Audre Lorde’s ‘Your Silence Will Not Protect You’

Bridget Minamore

Book Review

January 2018

There’s a clarity to Audre Lorde’s writing that becomes most apparent when you are presented with a collection of...

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December 2017

Books of the Year

reviews

December 2017

Presenting members of The White Review editorial team, esteemed contributors, and friends of the magazine on the books they’ve been reading...

Alina Szapocznikow, Human Landscapes

Art Review

December 2017

Philomena Epps

Art Review

December 2017

‘I produce awkward objects,’ the sculptor Alina Szapocznikow wrote in 1972. ‘Of all the manifestations of the ephemeral, the human body is the most...

 

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