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The White Review
No. 33

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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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Alex Kovacs
Alex Kovacs was born in 1982. He has studied at the University of Edinburgh and at Goldsmiths, University of London. The Currency of Paper is his first novel.

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The Currency of Paper

fiction

February 2013

Alex Kovacs

fiction

February 2013

‘Labour is external to the worker, i.e. it does not belong to his essential being; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm...

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Another month, another year, another crisis: eleven years in Beirut

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Essay

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In Neil Marshall’s 2005 horror film The Descent, a group of women go spelunking and become trapped deep underground...

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Hoarseness: A Legend of Contemporary Cairo

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feature

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U. Mubarak It kind of grows out of traffic. The staccato hiss of an exhaust pipe begins to sound like...

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Interview with Jonathan Meades

Jamie Sutcliffe

Interview

March 2015

The television broadcasts of Jonathan Meades are marked by a surreal humour, a polymathic breadth of knowledge, and a...

 

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