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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

‘Sometimes I go to the tavern and get drunk          What of it?’                                 Nesimi 1 Bars tend us in our brighter afternoons toward the gentler tenses: conditionality, subjunctivity, would reign within their glasses’ stains, so that it might be possible to claim, if there could be a bar where Lorne Greene drank, post-Battlestar, a whole Bonanza shot – if these could somehow have been filmed within these Borders, in this North East – then it would be here where the piano is forever paused, the Cylons placed on charge, beneath this rippling cream ceiling motif not so unlike the way his hair was combed   2 In fact no keyboard need be present, just the suspension of its mammoth tooth-tonk will suffice, any further note defeats both memory and prediction of our tune In fact succession can find no hook here, like the gecko’s rubber foot, baffled by some non-surface, some lack of wall, the brim of things must suffice for now   3 The soft stabilities of brass and glass in late Saturday sunlight, unsure if it’s still summer, gloss on green leather, wrought-iron table legs tucked under sight, polite as beetles, suds amounting to a glaucoma lens of foam, and the muted flame, haemetite immersed in the alien finger- length depth of the pint’s remains Lorne must rejoin us, his stunted doubles, here, and pay off all his gunless hands with ale: all princes among men are here disinherited of their kinricks; in fact are here defined by abdication of any claim upon the future   4 Lorne! Lorne of the sausage they do not serve here at six o’clock alongside the pork pies and many fatty nibbles; Lorne of the flattened sausages of Scotland as though the issue of a union between minced meat

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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Interview

June 2011

Interview with Jorge Semprun

TR. Jacques Testard

Pierre Testard

Gwénaël Pouliquen

Interview

June 2011

The great Spanish-born writer Jorge Semprún died on Tuesday 8 June 2011 in Paris, aged 87. A Spanish Civil...

Interview

Issue No. 15

Interview with Zadie Smith

Jennifer Hodgson

Interview

Issue No. 15

Zadie Smith’s biography is one of contemporary writing’s fondest and most famous yarns of precocious and meteoric literary success....

fiction

November 2014

The Ovenbird

César Aira

TR. Chris Andrews

fiction

November 2014

The hypothesis underlying this study is that human beings act in strict accordance with an instinctive programme, which governs...

 

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