Mailing List


Rebecca Liu
Rebecca Liu is a commissioning editor at Guardian Saturday and a staff writer at Another Gaze.

Articles Available Online


There are only girls on the internet

Book Review

August 2022

Rebecca Liu

Book Review

August 2022

I remember the first time I saw it, like a freshly alert hare alarmed by movement in the distant grasslands. It was 2013. Model...

Book Review

September 2020

Pankaj Mishra’s ‘Bland Fanatics’

Rebecca Liu

Book Review

September 2020

The Anglo-American commentariat is full of lofty egos. Pankaj Mishra has developed a reputation as their great deflater. ‘Watch...

In the course of putting three issues of The White Review together, the editors have been presented with the problems they were previously so apt to discuss in abstract terms How are the responsibilities of an editor changing?  How should an editor engage with a writer or artist, helping to shape or develop their work without impinging upon it? As an editor, to what extent should one agree with the arguments being proposed in the course of an essay, or should the editor’s role be entirely objective? How is it possible (is it possible) to curate a variety of individual works, of different modes, styles, forms and expressions, without sacrificing the overall coherence of each issue? We, after much discussion (at dinner tables and elsewhere…), cannot answer these questions They are technical, mechanical issues, to be addressed by editors, in a small room, surrounded by paper   As to the role of the editor, we continue to be guided by two certain principles We hold that a writer or artist can succeed without their work ticking boxes devised by marketing departments These we classify as writers and artists deserving of greater exposure Equally, we believe that there exist readers eager to escape the pigeonholes of taste ascribed to them We are confident that both groups are sufficiently populous to support the existence of a journal such as ours The role of the editors is to introduce one to the other on the best possible terms   Variety – the quality or state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity or monotony – is key to this enterprise Other publishers operating today – CB Editions, Dalkey Archive Press, Melville House, Go Together Press, And Other Stories – are doing this admirably The success of The White Review depends on our ability to further this tradition, nothing more

Contributor

August 2019

Rebecca Liu

Contributor

August 2019

Rebecca Liu is a commissioning editor at Guardian Saturday and a staff writer at Another Gaze.

Jia Tolentino’s ‘Trick Mirror’

Book Review

August 2019

Rebecca Liu

Book Review

August 2019

Talk about the fates of young professional women today and you will often alight on two themes: the anxieties that come with living in...

READ NEXT

fiction

July 2015

Agata's Machine

Camilla Grudova

fiction

July 2015

Agata and I were both eleven years old when she first introduced me to her machine. We were in...

poetry

July 2012

Poem for the Sightless Man (After Kate Clanchy)

Abigail Nelson

poetry

July 2012

This is just to say,   that the inked glasses that you wear look like the sound of shop...

feature

February 2012

Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

Rose McLaren

feature

February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer...

 

Get our newsletter

 

* indicates required