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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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Philippa Snow
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 Nation, The 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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A still from Benedetta, featuring Christ on the cross looking at Benedetta.
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...

The White Review No 9 is available to purchase online and in the bookshops listed here Please note that the prices listed below are inclusive of postage and packaging – Editorial Ordinary Voids by Patrick Langley (Essay) Vladimir Sorokin (Interview) Chess Review Storyboard by Marcel Dzama (Art) Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author James Murphy’s Notes on Nicola Morelli Berengo by Francesco Pacifico (tr Livia Franchini) (Fiction) Poems by Adam Fitzgerald, George Szirtes, Matthew Gregory (Poetry) Dr Gaz by Jeff Keen (Art) Even Pricks by Ed Atkins (Fiction) Gustav Metzger (Interview) Leaving Theories Behind by Enrique Vila-Matas (tr Rahul Bery) (Essay) Poems by Gerður Kristný (tr Victoria Cribb and Sigurður A Magnússon) (Poetry) Utopia Welcomes You!! by Mark Mulroney (Art) The Drained Pool by Hunter Braithwaite (Essay) Rebecca Solnit (Interview) Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger (Fiction)  *** Cover art: The Secret Map by Raphaël Garnier

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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That winter, all the plums froze. All the peaches froze and all the cherries froze, and everything froze so...

 

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