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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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Issue No. 18

This is the editorial from the eighteenth print issue of The White Review, available to buy here.    In 1991 the poet and novelist Eileen...

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October 2012

Saint Anthony the Hermit Tortured by Devils

Stephen Devereux

poetry

October 2012

  Sassetta has him feeling no pain, comfortable even, Yet stiffly dignified at an odd angle like the statue...

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May 2013

Flatlands

Saskia Hamilton

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May 2013

Horses and geese in a sodden field. Solitaries with luggage on a wet platform. Postage-stamp house on a bit...

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September 2011

First Blimp

Joshua Trotter

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September 2011

Removing colour from my thoughts, I formed a winter ball. I threw it. The dead were uncounted. There was...

 

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