Pyramid Schemes is published in a handmade edition of 88, printed on 100gsm cartridge paper and bound in 300gsm white card. It comes with a downloadable version.  

The book is stocked at X Marks le Bokship in Bethnal Green & Ti Pi Tin in Stoke Newington. It is also available to buy here for £5.00. 

The first twenty submissions received before Friday 12 April will feature in the exhibition. Submissions are open to all and should be sent to editors@thewhitereview.org. 

For one night only, an immersive installation at The White Building in Hackney Wick will shape the collected texts into a panoramic cityscape. Please join us on Thursday 2nd May from 7-10pm to celebrate the spectacle of this fictional city. A limited edition of fold-out artists’ books will be produced to accompany the event. 

The project continues themes explored in Lawrence Lek’s essay ‘Pyramid Schemes: Reading The Shard’, featured in The White Review No. 7 alongside works by Luc Tuymans and John Stezaker.

Part of the First Thursdays late-night gallery openings in East London. With the support of SPACE Studios and the White Building.

Novelist Tom McCarthy will announce the winner of the £2,500 prize, chosen by a jury comprising novelist Deborah Levy, editor Alex Bowler and literary agent Karolina Sutton, at the event. There will be music (more details to follow), the ‘best [hot] dogs in Britain’ (Giles Coren) and, of course, drinks. 

RSVP to editors@thewhitereview.org to confirm your attendance.

The White Review Short Story Prize is an annual short story competition for emerging authors resident in the UK or Ireland who has yet to secure a publishing deal. The prize is made possible by the generous support of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Apartment 58 is a members’ club in central London that caters to the creative industries, with an interior designed by Mia Wallenius furnished with vintage chairs and sofas as well as her own Klaus Haapaniemi brand. Please note that the nature of the venue means that your name MUST be on the door to enter. 

The eight shortlisted stories can be read here. 

There will be drinks. Please RSVP to editors@thewhitereview.org to reserve a space at the event.

The White Review No. 7 features interviews with artists Luc Tuymans and John Stezaker and poet Keston Sutherland; essays on the state of British fiction, the Guardian and the Shard; fiction by Peter Stamm and Jesse Loncraine; and cover art by Mai-Thu Perret. A complete table of contents will be unveiled on 28 March.

There will be food, drink and music. Please RSVP to editors@thewhitereview.org. Space is limited for this event, which begins at 7pm sharp. 

Gone to Earth is based on Mary Webb’s melodramatic novel of 1917: the tale of a wild-natured young woman (played by Jennifer Jones) torn between the love of a meek Baptist minister (Cyril Cusack) and the local squire (David Farrar). Several of Powell and Pressburger’s better known films — especially A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I’m Going — are in thrall to a mystical view of British landscape. In Gone to Earth, that magic and Romanticism are weirdly lurid and over-stated; the film imputes an absurd degree of eroticism and energy to the Shropshire countryside where it was shot. It’s an oddity, even an embarrassment, among Powell and Pressburger’s films – compromised by co-producer David O. Selznick’s obsessive relationship with Jones. But at a time when so many British artists and writers — from Tacita Dean to Robert Macfarlane — are revisiting Romantic conceptions of landscape, it’s also a fascinating instance of a postwar picturesque. Dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, UK 1950, 110 mins, Cert PG.

Brian Dillon is a writer and critic, and UK editor of Cabinet magazine.He contributes regularly to art magazines, newspapers and journals in the UK, USA and Ireland, as well as writing books that range in subject matter from contemporary art to the history of hypochondria, the physical space of writing to the aesthetics of decay.

Please contact or Susanne Schulze or Margaretha Weber at presse@lond.diplo.de to RSVP for the launch. 

‘Sent’ begins mythically in the woods of Russia, but in a few virtuosic pages plunges into the present, where an aspiring journalist finds himself in a village that shelters all the women who’ve starred in all the internet porn he’s ever enjoyed. 

Following the reading, Cohen will be interviewed by Christian Lorentzen, Senior Editor at the London Review of Books. There will be alcohol (& soft drinks, too). Space is limited to 60 people for this event so please RSVP BY EMAIL ONLY to editors [at] thewhitereview.org. The event will begin at 7pm.

Joshua Cohen is the author of the novels Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto. A book of novellas, Four New Messages, was published by Graywolf Press in August 2012, and an essay on the history of attention is forthcoming with Notting Hill Editions in 2013. Cohen is the New Books critic for Harper’s Magazine. He lives in New York City.

‘Joshua Cohen has more than four new messages to deliver in this volatile book, all quite urgent. These stories seize us with their brash humor and intellectual reach. But are they startling warning flares or diabolical soul traps? Probably both. Read them and weep, roar, shudder.’—Sam Lipsyte, praise for Four New Messages

‘This anarchic energy recalls Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace, but what really distinguishes Witz is its language and Cohen’s vigorous assault on the sentence as a unit of simple communication. . . . A linguistic extravaganza.’—The New York Times Book Review, praise for Witz.