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No. 33

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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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Simon Okotie
Simon Okotie was born to Nigerian/English parents. His family moved to rural Norfolk in the late seventies – seemingly one of few black families in the region. This is an extract from his novel Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?, forthcoming from Salt Publishing.

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Whatever Happened To Harold Absalon?

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July 2012

Simon Okotie

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July 2012

1. The hotel lobby was both cleansed and fragrant, as was the receptionist speaking softly on the phone behind the desk. The owners obviously...

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A sparkling frost-clear landscape exists between them under a soft and smudged sky. Irises exist, blue and yellow, and those that wither in a...

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Annabel Howard

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We are crowded into the medium-sized piazza before the sanctuary of Montevergine. There is no town or village; it...

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On a pale marble fountain in Dubrovnik, I posed. I pretended I too was a stone figure, water gushing...

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