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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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John Christopher
John Christopher is a writer from Dublin.

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an old drawing of a red scaly fish with big eyes and sharp teeth that extend out of its mouth
an old drawing of a red scaly fish with big eyes and sharp teeth that extend out of its mouth
Come Back, Freddy Krueger!

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September 2022

John Christopher

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September 2022

When I took my boyfriend, Freddy Krueger, home to meet my parents, they were disappointed, grey, fatigued, but not at all surprised. They stood...

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