Attachment Barbies: On Watching Grey’s Anatomy

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March 2023

Helen Charman

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March 2023

In August 2022, ABC announced that Ellen Pompeo, currently the highest-paid actress on American network television, was leaving Grey’s Anatomy, the show on which...

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VISA GODS   In this story, Eurydice is dark & deadly & has lived all her life in Hades. In this story, Orpheus plays...

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In 2021, I collapsed all of my identities onto themselves. Previously, I had written under my legal name –...

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Joaquim Baiano’s land is near the source of the river, and the pumpkins he grows there are simply unbelievable....

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Chains or Whips? The Cruel Decade and its Aftermath

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It seems to me that the 00s ended with...

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Suicide without a cause, or silent sacrifice for an...

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The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023

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The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023 is now open...

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Stench

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The scent of osmanthus blossoms still lingered in her...

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You Don’t Think God Is Sexy?

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On the most literal level, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s elliptical,...

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Afternoon Tea

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‘Grandma… Why are we brown?’   The grandmother puts down the rifle she’s been cleaning. Another rifle and a...

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This is the story of a book we are...

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CULTURAL STRATUM   remember how once in a past...

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Marine Le Pen gets into town tonight. That’s what I heard. Did you hear, Marine Le Pen’s in D. the 29th. My reaction on...

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Interview with Valzhyna Mort

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How can we mourn the dead within the context of historical violence, trauma and political oppression? How can their...

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You Have Not Yet Been Defeated

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RightsCon is an annual human rights conference, run by Access Now. Alaa attended the first ever RightsCon in October...

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But how could anyone have known? Known or believed...

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In Sarah Schulman’s 1986 novel Girls, Visions and Everything...

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The White Review Short Story Prize 2022, sponsored by RCW

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On Saturday 15 October, at an event in London,...

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In Alexandra Kleeman’s 2015 novel You Too Can Have...

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The President of a small European country was dozing...

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In 1999, living in France for the first time, I picked up a copy of Passion simple by Annie...

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Susanna Moore’s memoir, Miss Aluminum (2020), takes its title...

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A Violet Coagulation of Dispersals

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I   All the real niggas are dead or...

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Around dusk one evening in March, I went out...

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The White Review Short Story Prize Party 2022

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Getting Rid of It

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Ariel Saramandi

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As a schoolgirl I was told that abortion was illegal in Mauritius. No exceptions. There was no reason for me to believe otherwise. At...

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The Professor of Loss

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The Professor stormed into the brothel’s reception hall in the evening and kicked away our singing radio. It flew...

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Under the Paving Stones, the Sofa

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The email telling us to return to the office came last week, but I know when I step off...

Come Back, Freddy Krueger!

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John Christopher

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When I took my boyfriend, Freddy Krueger, home to meet my parents, they were disappointed, grey, fatigued, but not at all surprised. They stood...

 

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