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Aaron Peck is the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis and Letters to the Pacific.

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The Abyss Echoes Back: Judith Schalansky’s ‘An Inventory of Losses’

Book Review

January 2021

Aaron Peck

Book Review

January 2021

Early in Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses, the narrator describes the way an ancient form of writing survived oblivion. The soft clay tablets...

Book Review

May 2018

Harry Mathews’s ‘The Solitary Twin’

Aaron Peck

Book Review

May 2018

Imagine a small fishing village on the edge of the world. Its inhabitants are progressive and content. The surroundings...

i’m running out of data on the train everyone is feeling particularly lonely it isn’t enough everyone & me     ear plugged & stirring    is listening to something considering charts & cadence of feet bounce it is likely we are listening to Drake   Drake says    sometimes i feel good sometimes i don’t   he knows that until he bursts from carbs or cliché we will love him always Drake has been on our minds now for some fourhundredtwenty weeks at least everyone & Drake is wearing t-shirts with Drake lyrics printed on them we are signing love letters and suicide notes with Drakeisms     it isn’t enough wake up mumbling something Drake drool on our pillow wonder where else still we can find traces of him we’re only now just learning   Drake says    more life more everything always more   feeding every hour on the hour all the amenities the biggest residential pool on the planet everybody in it my critics & my friends fat happy house my children & everybody loving me the pictures portrait of the artist eating    portrait of the artist in the biggest residential pool on the planet fat & happy Drake’s ear is to the zeitgeist     listening for something out there shooting his shot into space      waiting it isn’t enough to hold everybody & their faces    sing it there are so many people outside that haven’t heard it yet i don’t know if they can wait   how long Drake says     i do not know what permanence is i’m only now just learning i’m upset     doing the best that i can to be heard i need more content

Contributor

May 2017

Aaron Peck

Contributor

May 2017

Aaron Peck is the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis and Letters to the Pacific.

Gloria

fiction

May 2017

Aaron Peck

fiction

May 2017

Bernard, whenever he thought of Geoffrey, would remember his gait on the afternoon of their first meeting. Geoffrey walked with the confidence of a...

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feature

April 2013

Félix Fénéon, Bomb-Thrower

Tom McCarthy

feature

April 2013

Editors’ Note: On 25 April 2013, novelist Tom McCarthy announced the winner of the first annual White Review Short...

Prize Entry

April 2015

The Incidental

Luke Melia

Prize Entry

April 2015

The automatic rifle fire was followed by an unnerving whistle at Ti’s ear. He gripped the shopping bags, grabbed...

fiction

July 2013

univers, univers

Régis Jauffret

TR. Jeffrey Zuckerman

fiction

July 2013

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

 

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