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The White Review No. 30 features longform interviews with the artist Toyin Ojih Odutola (who also provides the issue’s cover), novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye and...
Over the course of her career, Marie NDiaye has carved herself a unique position in French literature, situated somewhere...
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We are excited to announce the eight portfolios shortlisted for the White Review Poet’s Prize 2020/21, in partnership with...
Rainbow Milk, Paul Mendez’s debut novel, explores lived histories...
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The explosion happened one mid-morning at the Swan Custard Factory. A dust-cloud of cornstarch was ignited, blowing off the...
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I met Anne Serre on the shelves of a...
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I was fourteen when I first transformed from Rosa...
Fanny Howe’s bibliography is as bewildering as her itinerant...
Scholastique Mukasonga is Rwanda’s most celebrated author. Her eight works of memoir and fiction, all written in French, reckon...
I lost my faith the year my Grandma passed away. She was here and then she was not, and...
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