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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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Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh's fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago X Stylist short story prize. Her debut novel, The Water Cure, is published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and forthcoming from Doubleday in the US.

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Lena Andersson's ‘Acts of Infidelity’

Book Review

July 2018

Sophie Mackintosh

Book Review

July 2018

Acts of Infidelity is the second novel by Lena Andersson that follows unlucky-in-love heroine Ester Nilsson, and it’s another scalpel-sharp look at a doomed...

Fiction

May 2018

Self-Improvement

Sophie Mackintosh

Fiction

May 2018

I had been sent back from the city in disgrace, back to my parents’ house in the country. It...

Editorial  The Surrealist Section of the Harry Ransom Centre by Diego Trelles Paz (Fiction) Gay Madonnas in Montevergine: The Feast of Mamma Schiavona by Annabel Howard (Reportage) William Boyd (Interview) Sri Lankan Contemporary Art by Josephine Breese (Art) Portraits of Pierre Reverdy and Three Poems (tr Sam Gordon) (Poetry) The End of Francophonie: The Politics of French Literature by Lauren Elkin (Essay) From Back Home by JH Engström (Art) Richard Wentworth (Interview) Conflicts of Interest: Frank O’Hara and the Collaborative Talent by Thirza Wakefield (Essay) Cafédämmerung & Notes Toward the Crane Poem by Joshua Cohen (Fiction) I Cling to Virtue by Noam Toran, Onkar Kular and Keith R Jones (Art) Poetry by Graham Foust, Patrick McGuinness, Kit Buchan, Lee Rourke and Ahren Warner (Poetry) Michael Hardt (Interview) Religion and the Movies by Aidan Cottrell Boyce (Fiction) Three Poets and the World (Essay) *** Cover art by Lewis Irvine Poster insert: Destination Unparadise & Elusive Unknown by Sophie von Cundale

Contributor

April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh

Contributor

April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh’s fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the...
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Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

Sophie Mackintosh

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

14. It comes for me in the middle of the day when I am preparing lunch, quartering a tomato then slicing each segment in...

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