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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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Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh's fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago X Stylist short story prize. Her debut novel, The Water Cure, is published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and forthcoming from Doubleday in the US.

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Lena Andersson's ‘Acts of Infidelity’

Book Review

July 2018

Sophie Mackintosh

Book Review

July 2018

Acts of Infidelity is the second novel by Lena Andersson that follows unlucky-in-love heroine Ester Nilsson, and it’s another scalpel-sharp look at a doomed...

Fiction

May 2018

Self-Improvement

Sophie Mackintosh

Fiction

May 2018

I had been sent back from the city in disgrace, back to my parents’ house in the country. It...

Editorial On Extinction: Whales by Melanie Challenger (Reportage) Elmgreen & Dragset (Interview) Forkhead Box by Jeremy M Davies (Fiction) Borism by Oliver Griffin and Lee Rourke (Art) Dead Unicorns: Apocalyptic Anxiety in Canadian Art by Vanessa Nicholas (Essay) Poems by Rebecca Wolff, Toshiko Hirata (tr Jeffrey Angles) and Rikudah Potash (tr Michael Casper) (Poetry) Will Self (Interview) Hammer and Blackberry & Outside In by Stephen Gill (Art) This is Not the Place: Perec, The Situationists and Belleville by Karl Whitney (Reportage) Rehearsal Room by K J Orr (Fiction) Marina Warner (Interview) Reduction by Alison Rossiter (Art) Poems by Medbh McGuckian, Jon Thompson, Adrian Dannatt and Michael Hampton (Poetry) The New Global Literature? Marjane Satrapi and the Depiction of Conflict in Comics by Jessica Copley (Essay) Fifteen Flowers by Federico Falco (tr Janet Hendrickson) (Fiction) *** Cover: Green over Yellow by Matthew Allen Booklet insert: Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu by Badaude

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April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh

Contributor

April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh’s fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the...
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Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

Sophie Mackintosh

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

14. It comes for me in the middle of the day when I am preparing lunch, quartering a tomato then slicing each segment in...

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HAL FOSTER’S WORK FOLLOWS in the tradition of the modernist art critic-historian, a public intellectual whose reflection on, and...

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There were seven of us sat around the table. Seven grown adults, sat around the table. It was late. We...

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I am a little apprehensive about meeting David Vann for the first time. His father committed suicide when David...

 

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