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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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Robert Assaye
Robert Assaye is a writer and critic living in London.

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Issy Wood, When You I Feel

Art Review

December 2017

Robert Assaye

Art Review

December 2017

At the centre of Issy Wood’s solo exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa is a room-within-a room. The division of the gallery into two viewing spaces –...

Art

April 2017

'Learning from Athens'

Robert Assaye

Art

April 2017

The history of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition founded in the German city of Kassel in 1955, is...

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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August 2014

Robert Assaye

Robert Assaye

Contributor

August 2014

Robert Assaye is a writer and critic living in London.
New Communities

Art

January 2017

Robert Assaye

Art

January 2017

DeviantArt is the world’s ‘largest online community of artists and art-lovers’ and its thirteenth largest social network. Its forty million members contribute to a...
The Land Art of Julie Brook

Art

Issue No. 4

Robert Assaye

Art

Issue No. 4

Julie Brook works with the land. Over the past twenty years she has lived and worked in a succession of inhospitable locations, creating sculptures...

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Jáchym Topol

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Jáchym Topol (b. 1962), like most Czech authors of his generation, wrote poetry for years before turning to prose. His first two collections of...

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Removing colour from my thoughts, I formed a winter ball. I threw it. The dead were uncounted. There was...

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Issue No. 14

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The Editors

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Issue No. 14

Having several issues ago announced that we would no longer be writing our own editorials, the editors’ (ultimately inevitable)...

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April 2013

I am standing in front of a room full of people reading out a story. The room is dark....

 

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