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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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Aparna Surendra
Aparna Surendra is a Sri Lankan writer based in London. She is the recipient of a 2022 London Writers Award for literary fiction. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Aparna writes fiction alongside a career in technology and digital rights. 

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an old drawing of a fish, grey mostly but blue on the top. it has very thin fins and looks streamlined, tapering from just after its head to its tail
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The mothers check their belongings into lockers and pass through metal detectors. They learn the rules of the public gallery and the name of...

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