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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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Kaleem Hawa

Kaleem Hawa has written about art, film, and literature for the New York Review of Books, The Nation, and Artforum, among others.



Articles Available Online
Hating it Lush: On Tel Aviv

Essay

May 2023

Kaleem Hawa

Essay

May 2023

I   They made the desert bloom, tall sparkling towers and clean Bauhaus lines, and apple-ring acacias, and teal blue shuttle buses, and stock...

Poetry

Issue No. 28

Three poems from issue 28

Sarah Barnsley

Valzhyna Mort

Kaleem Hawa

Poetry

Issue No. 28

Valzhyna Mort, ‘Music for Girl’s Voice and Bison’   Sarah Barnsley, ‘Virginia Woolf Has Fallen Over’   Kaleem Hawa,...

Editorial  The Surrealist Section of the Harry Ransom Centre by Diego Trelles Paz (Fiction) Gay Madonnas in Montevergine: The Feast of Mamma Schiavona by Annabel Howard (Reportage) William Boyd (Interview) Sri Lankan Contemporary Art by Josephine Breese (Art) Portraits of Pierre Reverdy and Three Poems (tr Sam Gordon) (Poetry) The End of Francophonie: The Politics of French Literature by Lauren Elkin (Essay) From Back Home by JH Engström (Art) Richard Wentworth (Interview) Conflicts of Interest: Frank O’Hara and the Collaborative Talent by Thirza Wakefield (Essay) Cafédämmerung & Notes Toward the Crane Poem by Joshua Cohen (Fiction) I Cling to Virtue by Noam Toran, Onkar Kular and Keith R Jones (Art) Poetry by Graham Foust, Patrick McGuinness, Kit Buchan, Lee Rourke and Ahren Warner (Poetry) Michael Hardt (Interview) Religion and the Movies by Aidan Cottrell Boyce (Fiction) Three Poets and the World (Essay) *** Cover art by Lewis Irvine Poster insert: Destination Unparadise & Elusive Unknown by Sophie von Cundale

Contributor

November 2019

Kaleem Hawa

Contributor

November 2019

Kaleem Hawa has written about art, film, and literature for the New York Review of Books, The Nation, and...

after Mahmoud Darwish    Why is a boy an exclamation,  and why are his dead a period?,  why do his sinews tighten when he sees  a Palestinian body? Does his vision narrow  because of their flight,  or because their world is raining with salt?  Why is a boy with a gun different  from a boy with a jail cell?,  if the tools of rupture are our arms for  repurposing the body, and the arms of  the state are our means of repurposing the male,  are we finally useful and breathing and nervous…?  Does the white mean Night’s arrival?,  or does night signal the white’s escape?,  and when that white city boy becomes  a White City man,  does the hate in his heart subside?,  or does it become an ellipses,  a Bauhaus history of stories started  and left unfinished 
You Arrive at A White Checkpoint and Emerge Unscathed

Prize Entry

November 2019

Kaleem Hawa

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Since the Stone Age, people have been concerned with the problem of how to represent life.   Cave paintings...

 

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