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The White Review
No. 33

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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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Madeleine Watts
Madeleine Watts has published essays and fiction in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Lifted Brow, Meanjin and Vox, among others. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It, won the 2015 Griffith Review novella competition. She lives in New York.

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March 2016

Madeleine Watts

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March 2016

It was the first week of 1976 and she had just turned 17.   The day school let out her parents packed the car...

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