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Leon Craig
Leon Craig is a writer and editor based in Berlin. She has written for the TLS, the Literary ReviewAnother Gaze and the London Magazine among others. Her queer gothic short story collection Parallel Hells is published by Sceptre Books and she is currently working on her first novel The Decadence.

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Cosy Violence

Book Review

June 2023

Leon Craig

Book Review

June 2023

The 22 year old Australian narrator of K Patrick’s sensuous, subversive debut novel is a long way from home. A matron at an unnamed...

Fiction

September 2021

Lick the Dust

Leon Craig

Fiction

September 2021

When you misplace something in the library here, it stays lost for a very long time. The eighteenth-century catalogue...

This ninth print issue of The White Review is characterised by little more than the continuation of the principles we have set out in our past eight editorials Which makes for a boring ninth editorial The disappointment of running out of things to say without repeating ourselves is compensated for by the satisfaction of no longer needing to We hope that the accumulation of issues means that readers will be familiar with what The White Review stands for, and what it aims to achieve Herewith, you will find interviews with: Gustav Metzger, founder of the Auto-Destructive Art and Art strike movements, a veteran activist-artist whose work seems every day more relevant to our contemporary situation; the novelist Vladimir Sorokin, whose literary experiments have inflamed the Russian establishment; and Rebecca Solnit on writing, protest and our need for narratives The various formal means by which we can satisfy that need are explored in Marcel Dzama’s ‘Chess Review Storyboard’ and Ed Atkins’ ‘Even Pricks’, the textual backbone for the film of the same name that he recently showed at the Lyon Biennial Its starting place, Ed tells us, ‘was a transcript of the interview with the brother of the guy swallowed by a sinkhole in Florida’ We’re excited to include paintings by Mark Mulroney, who riffs on contemporary attitudes to sex, body and power, and by the great experimental film-maker, artist and poet Jeff Keen   We also renew our commitment to translation Enrique Vila-Matas, marooned in Lyon, elaborates a new general theory of the novel, despite leaving theories behind; Francesco Pacifico relays a journalist’s notes towards a profile of a 40-year-old trustfund kid; and we break new ground with Gerður Kristný’s Icelandic poems Emerging writers are represented by Patrick Langley’s essay in fragments on the edge land of Silvertown; Hunter Braithwaite’s discourse on swimming pools, Miami and Ballard; and an excerpt from Zoe Pilger’s debut novel Elsewhere is new poetry by Adam Fitzgerald, Matthew Gregory and George Szirtes   What we must reiterate is that these goals can only be realised with the support of you, the reader, and the artists and writers who contribute

Contributor

April 2016

Leon Craig

Contributor

April 2016

Leon Craig is a writer and editor based in Berlin. She has written for the TLS, the Literary Review, Another Gaze and the London Magazine among...

Art Review

April 2019

Oscar Wilde Temple, Studio Voltaire

Leon Craig

Art Review

April 2019

The light is dim, the air richly scented. Little purple tea lights flicker in the votive candle rack and...

[Getting] Down with Gal Pals

Feature

November 2018

Leon Craig

Feature

November 2018

There’s a moment in Laura Kaye’s underrated novel English Animals when the protagonist Mirka, sitting in the village bar with her married lover, notices...
Mute Canticle

Prize Entry

April 2016

Leon Craig

Prize Entry

April 2016

Giulio the singing fascist came to pick me up from the little airport in his Jeep. He made sure to come round and hold...

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fiction

January 2016

By the River

Esther Kinsky

TR. Martin Chalmers

fiction

January 2016

  For Aljoscha   ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY   Under my finger the map, this quiet pale blue of the...

fiction

February 2014

Coral

R. B. Pillay

fiction

February 2014

Early one morning, you wake up with the smell of burnt sheets in your nose, the sheets that you...

poetry

January 2015

Diana's Tree

Alejandra Pizarnik

TR. Yvette Siegert

poetry

January 2015

Diana’s Tree, Alejandra Pizarnik’s fourth collection, was published in 1962, when the poet was barely 26 years old. Named after...

 

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