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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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Philippa Snow
Philippa Snow is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, Vogue, The Nation, The New Statesman, and The New Republic. Her first book, Which As You Know Means Violence, is out now with Repeater, and she is currently working on an essay collection about famous women.  

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A still from Benedetta, featuring Christ on the cross looking at Benedetta.
You Don’t Think God Is Sexy?

Film Review

January 2023

Philippa Snow

Film Review

January 2023

On the most literal level, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s elliptical, spiritual-cum-sensual movie Teorema (1968) is about an entire family being driven to distraction by their...

Essay

Issue No. 31

It's Terrible The Things I Have To Do To Be Me

Philippa Snow

Essay

Issue No. 31

Here was a woman who had modelled her life so closely on Marilyn Monroe’s that doing so eventually helped...

See pictures of the new issue here *** Editorial  Weeping Machines by Deborah Levy (Fiction) Brian Dillon (Interview) Poems by Ben Parker, David Lebor, Tom Chivers and Nia Davies (Poetry) A Wedding by Jesse Ball (Fiction) Untitled by Nick van Woert (Art) Notes on an Unfamiliar Poetry by Orlando Reade (Essay) Poems by Michael Horovitz (Poetry) Juergen Teller (Interview & Art) Poems by Andy Brown and Sarah Howe (Poetry) If Not Now, When? by Rye Dag Holmboe (Essay) A Letter That Never Reached England by Matt Lomas (Fiction) Poems by Paul Hoover and James Brookes (Poetry) To Give Shape To Life: The Land Art of Julie Brook by Robert Assaye (Art) Ahdaf Soueif (Interview) Tibetan Kitsch by Evan Harris (Essay) *** Cover: Not Yet Titled by Landon Metz Poster insert: Renaissance Afternoon by Gabriele Beveridge 

Contributor

November 2018

Philippa Snow

Contributor

November 2018

Philippa Snow is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, Vogue, The...

Essay

January 2021

An Uneasy Girl

Philippa Snow

Essay

January 2021

Even before Lucie arrives holding a shotgun, we know that the perfect family in this huge suburban house are...

Brilliant Muscles

Essay

December 2019

Philippa Snow

Essay

December 2019

‘Lindsay Lohan’s new film,’ I told almost everyone I spoke to for about two months earlier this year, ‘is about werewolf detectives.’ Nobody seemed...
Evita Vasiljeva, POSTCRETE

Art Review

February 2019

Philippa Snow

Art Review

February 2019

Lower.Green is situated in the unlikely surroundings of a near-dead mall in Norwich. It is not just any mall, but Anglia Square Shopping Centre:...
Gabriele Beveridge, Live Dead World

Art Review

November 2018

Philippa Snow

Art Review

November 2018

Several months ago, I went to a salon so small and so identikit that I do not recall the name, and against every sane...

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It is a cliché to say that a writer’s work resists classification. It is ironic then that China Miéville, among the most ambitious, imaginative...

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Last October I was standing in my kitchen, waiting for espresso to trickle from the spout of our imposing...

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There are at least three Brian Evensons, all of them EXCEEDINGLY IMPROBABLE. First, there’s Brian Evenson, the prolific author of...

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Issue No. 11

Interview with Philippe Parreno

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It is the standard procedure, when visiting someone in central Paris, to ask in advance for the door code...

 

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