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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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Régis Jauffret
Born in 1955 in Marseilles, Régis Jauffret has written seventeen books and won many prizes in France. This is an extract from an untranslated novel, univers, univers (© Editions Verticales, 2003).

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univers, univers

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I. You remember your childhood. Your tow-headed, reddish-tinged mother, who yelled after you all day like a Paraguayan peasant chasing her donkey. And your...

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