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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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feature

February 2011

Novelty and revolt: why there is no such thing as a Twitter revolution

Nadia Khomami

feature

February 2011

The world is seeing an increase in the use of social media as a tool for mobilisation and protest....

poetry

May 2014

Two Poems from Grun-tu-molani

Vidyan Ravinthiran

poetry

May 2014

The Sky there was a uniform inactive grey, except when stared at through a chainlink fence; those who could...

fiction

November 2013

Special School

Iphgenia Baal

fiction

November 2013

 

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