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

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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...

Will you take the garbage when you go out? My wife said this without turning from the sink where she was washing the dishes from breakfast It’s in the hall You’ll see it as you go Of course, I said Don’t I always? Her back remained impassive and she did not reply Her hair was still matted from sleep and she was in her bathrobe I leaned forward to kiss her on the cheek She jerked away and muttered something about not having brushed her teeth, about splashing the hot water   I withdrew and went into the hall The children were playing on the floor in the living room The youngest was in his diaper It was already October and he should have been in a romper, he should have been wearing some kind of clothing Instead, he sat nearly naked on the dirty carpet, his diaper heavy with urine, while his sister wore nothing more than thin pajamas   They looked up when I passed and I raised my hand in greeting They were conspiratorial in a way that gave them an air of unlikely dignity After scrutinising me for a long moment, they resumed their playing The baby was beginning to crawl He lay sprawled out on his stomach, waving his arms and legs ineffectually Behind me, I could hear my wife scouring the pots and pans, the gush of hot water from the tap I picked up the garbage bag and walked down the hall Bye, I called out, as the door closed   The bag was heavy, its contents soft and shifting, as though it contained liquid I caught a whiff of cooking oil and I worried that the bag might burst as I carried it down the stairs, already the plastic was stretching thin at the neck I picked it up and carried it in my arms in order to avoid an accident It was awkward carrying it down like this, I could not see past its bulk, and several times I almost stumbled as I descended the first flight of stairs   We lived on

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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...

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Issue No. 20

From a Cuban Notebook

J. S. Tennant

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Issue No. 20

Beneath the rain, beneath the smell, beneath all that is a reality a people makes and unmakes itself leaving...

Interview

June 2012

Interview with Malcolm McNeill

Patrick Langley

Interview

June 2012

I first met Malcolm McNeill in 2007. He was in London to do some printing for an exhibition, and he showed...

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Issue No. 6

The White Review No. 6 Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 6

By the looks of it, not much has changed for The White Review. This new edition, like its predecessors,...

 

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