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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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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 8 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 Estate by China Miéville (Fiction) Chris Kraus (Interview) A Fictive Retrospective of the Bruce High Quality Foundation by Legacy Russell (Art) Poems by John Ashbery, Jack Underwood and Sumana Roy (Poetry) Claudia Wieser (Art) The Croatian Fairy by Dubravka Ugrešić (tr David Williams) (Essay) Sophie Calle (Interview) On Queensway Market, or How to Care about Things by Orlando Reade (Essay) Untyping by Eley Williams (Fiction) Deborah Levy (Interview) Guy Gormley (Art) The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi by Eugene Ostashevsky (Poetry) Barking from the Margins: On Écriture Féminine by Lauren Elkin (Essay) The Lady of the House by Claire-Louise Bennett (Fiction) *** Cover art by Ben Berlow

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

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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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