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Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. Her writing has appeared in publications such as friezeArtforum, Bookforum, Granta, n+1, BOMB, Mousse, Flash Art and art-agenda, and she is currently and editor at e-flux journal. Her first novel, Oval, was published by Soft Skull in 2019. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant and a 2020 fellow at the Berggruen Institute.

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Kids in the Field

Essay

March 2020

Elvia Wilk

Essay

March 2020

As we cross the border, the smooth, four-lane Mexican highway collapses into a winding, undivided, pockmarked road. Scraggly underbrush takes the place of manicured...
Oval

Fiction

March 2019

Elvia Wilk

Fiction

March 2019

The gym was crowded, so crowded there was a line forming at the showers, so many white bodies so close to each other, so...

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Interview

October 2014

Interview with Otobong Nkanga

Louisa Elderton

Interview

October 2014

Some things are meant to be lost. You can’t collect emotions. As the artist Otobong Nkanga tells me this,...

Prize Entry

April 2017

The Lovers

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....

feature

November 2014

Every Night is Like a Disco: Iraq 2003

Paul Currion

feature

November 2014

That day at Kassim’s, there was no music. There was almost no sound at all, not even the echoes...

 

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