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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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Ralf Webb
Ralf Webb's debut collection of poems, Rotten Days in Late Summer, was published by Penguin in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.

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a photograph of a thin tree with bright light behind it in a forest
Warped Pastoral: Ralf Webb and Sam Buchan-Watts in Conversation

Interview

June 2022

Ralf Webb

Interview

June 2022

Sam Buchan-Watts’s Path Through Wood, published in October 2021, begins where you would think: in a coppice, where branches tick and greenery fidgets. My own...
It’s All In The Film: Direct Cinema, ‘Grey Gardens’ and ‘That Summer’

Essay

September 2018

Ralf Webb

Essay

September 2018

Big Edie Beale, sitting bare-shouldered on the terrace, puts on her eyeglasses. The camera – manned by Albert Maysles – follows Big Edie’s line...

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Colonel Lágrimas

fiction

September 2016

Carlos Fonseca

TR. Megan McDowell

fiction

September 2016

The colonel must be looked at from up close. We have to approach him, get near enough to be a nuisance, near enough to...

feature

December 2013

The Horror of Philosophy

Houman Harouni

feature

December 2013

An article published in this same venue opens with a grievance: ‘We lack the philosophers that we require for...

poetry

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...

poetry

February 2012

Sunday

Rachael Allen

poetry

February 2012

Supermarket Warehouse This is the ornate layer: in the supermarket warehouse, boxed children’s gardens rocking on a fork-lift truck,...

 

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