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Philippa Snow
Philippa Snow is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in publications including ArtforumThe Los Angeles Review of BooksArtReviewFriezeVogueThe NationThe New Statesman, and The New Republic. Her first book, Which As You Know Means Violence, is out now with Repeater, and she is currently working on an essay collection about famous women.  

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You Don’t Think God Is Sexy?

Film Review

January 2023

Philippa Snow

Film Review

January 2023

On the most literal level, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s elliptical, spiritual-cum-sensual movie Teorema (1968) is about an entire family being driven to distraction by their...

Essay

Issue No. 31

It's Terrible The Things I Have To Do To Be Me

Philippa Snow

Essay

Issue No. 31

Here was a woman who had modelled her life so closely on Marilyn Monroe’s that doing so eventually helped...

Dear Friends, It’s been just over two months now since we launched our second issue at Daunt Books Cheapside and we have plenty of news to share, events to unveil and, most importantly perhaps, deals on subscriptions and past issues of The White Review We’d like to start, however, by congratulating Patrick McGuinness, who had a poem in our last issue, for making the Booker longlist with his novel The Last Hundred Days Issue 3 Our third issue will, this time around, launch in the Gallery on the third floor of Foyles’ flagship Charing Cross Road bookshop on 13 October from 6-830pm Following a brief presentation of the issue by the editors, British sculptor Richard Wentworth – interviewed here for our second issue – will be joined by author and critic Marina Warner – interviewed in the new issue – to discuss contemporary art and literature As usual, there will be some nibbles, lots to drink and an after-party in a nearby drinking establishment To reserve a space for the launch, please email editors@thewhiterevieworg Issue 3 will feature interviews with writers Will Self and the aforementioned Marina Warner but also an unusual discussion on artistic collaboration and contemporary art with Danish conceptual duo Elmgreen & Dragset Around the interviews will be the usual mix of fiction, poetry, reportage, essays, photography and artwork from two dozen artists and writers, all presented in our bespoke typeface As with the last issue, you can expect a few more innovative design features courtesy of The White Review’s artistic director and designer Ray O’Meara   Back Issues, Subscriptions & Tote Bags Ahead of the next launch, we are launching a subscription deal: £3999 gets you four issues (please specify which issue you’d like it to start at…) and a limited edition tote bag that will be sent out with the third issue in mid-October Visit our website for more details on this Please note this deal is only available until 13 October We’re

Contributor

November 2018

Philippa Snow

Contributor

November 2018

Philippa Snow is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, Vogue, The...

Essay

January 2021

An Uneasy Girl

Philippa Snow

Essay

January 2021

Even before Lucie arrives holding a shotgun, we know that the perfect family in this huge suburban house are...

Brilliant Muscles

Essay

December 2019

Philippa Snow

Essay

December 2019

‘Lindsay Lohan’s new film,’ I told almost everyone I spoke to for about two months earlier this year, ‘is about werewolf detectives.’ Nobody seemed...
Evita Vasiljeva, POSTCRETE

Art Review

February 2019

Philippa Snow

Art Review

February 2019

Lower.Green is situated in the unlikely surroundings of a near-dead mall in Norwich. It is not just any mall, but Anglia Square Shopping Centre:...
Gabriele Beveridge, Live Dead World

Art Review

November 2018

Philippa Snow

Art Review

November 2018

Several months ago, I went to a salon so small and so identikit that I do not recall the name, and against every sane...

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Interview

March 2015

Interview with Jonathan Meades

Jamie Sutcliffe

Interview

March 2015

The television broadcasts of Jonathan Meades are marked by a surreal humour, a polymathic breadth of knowledge, and a...

Prize Entry

Issue No. 20

The Refugee

Kristen Gleason

Prize Entry

Issue No. 20

Brian Ed waited outside the ration house. Merlijn took his time coming to the door, and opened it slowly....

poetry

Issue No. 17

Winter Diary

Galina Rymbu

TR. Joan Brooks

poetry

Issue No. 17

who bravely blasts their breath through the horn flares of gloomy streets, into dripping construction trailers, dropped by the...

 

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