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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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Prize Entry

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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Devyn Defoe
Devyn Defoe received an MFA from Columbia University and is writing a novel. Her work has previously appeared in Tin House and the artist book Girls In Trees. 'The Lovers' was shortlisted for the 2017 White Review Short Story Prize (US & Canada).


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The Lovers

Prize Entry

April 2017

Devyn Defoe

Prize Entry

April 2017

Everyone who asks questions, asks in some way about love. The question is one half, the answer the other. If you separate the Lovers...

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Malcolm Starke Died Today

Kit Buchan

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Malcolm Starke died today who rang us most nights so late that it could only be him. He’d been...

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October 2012

Crown of Thorns Starfish

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October 2012

If you look into infinity what do you see? Your backside!  –Tristan Tzara   The drug-addict, drunk, wife-shooter and...

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Leg over Leg

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fiction

January 2014

First published in 1855, Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fāriyāq,’ alter ego of...

 

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