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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 André Schiffrin (Interview) Beyond the Horizon by Patrick Langley (Fiction) (Un)timely Considerations on Old and Current Issues by Donatien Grau (Essay) Two Prose Poems by Alexander Nemser (Poetry) The Idea Machine: Brion Gysin by Marina Cashdan (Art) Marcus Leatherdale and the Adivasi by Amabel Barraclough (Reportage & Art) Paula Rego (Interview) Twelve Installations by Lawrence Lek (Art) Futures Past: Monumental Memorials of Modern Berlin by Leila Peacock (Essay) In Somaliland by Ismail Einashe (Reportage) On the Notoriously Overrated Powers of Voice in Fiction or How to Fail at Talking to Pretty Girls by D W Wilson (Essay) L’Heure Froide by Charles Cros (trans Sophie Lewis) (Poetry) From the Town by Desmond Hogan (Fiction) Tom McCarthy (Interview) Darkness and Dream: Levi Reads Byron and Leopardi by Anthony Rudolf (Essay) *** Cover by Viktor Timofeev

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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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Chris Petit likes driving. Most of his films, from his first Radio On (1979), to London Orbital (with Iain...

 

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