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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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Kaleem Hawa

Kaleem Hawa has written about art, film, and literature for the New York Review of Books, The Nation, and Artforum, among others.



Articles Available Online
Hating it Lush: On Tel Aviv

Essay

May 2023

Kaleem Hawa

Essay

May 2023

I   They made the desert bloom, tall sparkling towers and clean Bauhaus lines, and apple-ring acacias, and teal blue shuttle buses, and stock...

Poetry

Issue No. 28

Three poems from issue 28

Sarah Barnsley

Valzhyna Mort

Kaleem Hawa

Poetry

Issue No. 28

Valzhyna Mort, ‘Music for Girl’s Voice and Bison’   Sarah Barnsley, ‘Virginia Woolf Has Fallen Over’   Kaleem Hawa,...

The White Review No 9 is available to purchase online and in the bookshops listed here Please note that the prices listed below are inclusive of postage and packaging – Editorial Ordinary Voids by Patrick Langley (Essay) Vladimir Sorokin (Interview) Chess Review Storyboard by Marcel Dzama (Art) Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author James Murphy’s Notes on Nicola Morelli Berengo by Francesco Pacifico (tr Livia Franchini) (Fiction) Poems by Adam Fitzgerald, George Szirtes, Matthew Gregory (Poetry) Dr Gaz by Jeff Keen (Art) Even Pricks by Ed Atkins (Fiction) Gustav Metzger (Interview) Leaving Theories Behind by Enrique Vila-Matas (tr Rahul Bery) (Essay) Poems by Gerður Kristný (tr Victoria Cribb and Sigurður A Magnússon) (Poetry) Utopia Welcomes You!! by Mark Mulroney (Art) The Drained Pool by Hunter Braithwaite (Essay) Rebecca Solnit (Interview) Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger (Fiction)  *** Cover art: The Secret Map by Raphaël Garnier

Contributor

November 2019

Kaleem Hawa

Contributor

November 2019

Kaleem Hawa has written about art, film, and literature for the New York Review of Books, The Nation, and...

after Mahmoud Darwish    Why is a boy an exclamation,  and why are his dead a period?,  why do his sinews tighten when he sees  a Palestinian body? Does his vision narrow  because of their flight,  or because their world is raining with salt?  Why is a boy with a gun different  from a boy with a jail cell?,  if the tools of rupture are our arms for  repurposing the body, and the arms of  the state are our means of repurposing the male,  are we finally useful and breathing and nervous…?  Does the white mean Night’s arrival?,  or does night signal the white’s escape?,  and when that white city boy becomes  a White City man,  does the hate in his heart subside?,  or does it become an ellipses,  a Bauhaus history of stories started  and left unfinished 
You Arrive at A White Checkpoint and Emerge Unscathed

Prize Entry

November 2019

Kaleem Hawa

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Javier Marías is one of Spain’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists. He began writing fiction at an early age – the story ‘The Life and...

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When I was fifteen I took my two little cousins into town and had them wait outside the tattoo...

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Breath-Manifester   Each bared morning is a swell time to die, Leaving the town’s ornate maze for the level...

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With the desire to get to know an artist’s work comes the impulse to stick one’s nose in. The...

 

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