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Irenosen Okojie’s surreal fiction twists and shifts the world as we know it; in an interview with Leon Craig, Okojie discusses her novel Butterfly...

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The White Review Short Story Prize 2022, sponsored by RCW
The White Review Short Story Prize, sponsored by RCW, is an annual short story competition for emerging writers. The prize awards £2,500 to the best piece of short fiction...

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A black and white image of three women in suits and fedoras, two looking directly at the camera, one snarling away from the camera in sunglasses and a fake moustache
A black and white image of three women in suits and fedoras, two looking directly at the camera, one snarling away from the camera in sunglasses and a fake moustache
A Cunning Stunt

Essay

May 2022

Rose Higham-Stainton

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May 2022

‘What’s the difference between a policeman’s baton and a conjuror’s wand? One’s for stunning cunts and one’s for cunning stunts.’ – Anon   A...

Essay

April 2022

Emptiness and the Shape it Takes

Alina Zubkovych

TR. Nina Murray

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April 2022

East   Donbas. My relatives were miners. I did not quite grasp exactly what that meant, or what daily...

Biidaaban, a gender non conforming Anishinaabe young person drinks tea with Sabe around a kitchen table in their apartment.
Biidaaban, a gender non conforming Anishinaabe young person drinks tea with Sabe around a kitchen table in their apartment.

Interview

April 2022

Interview with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Khairani Barokka

Interview

April 2022

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is an esteemed Indigenous writer, musician, and activist, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg and a member of...

a glowing white cross standing in mountains
a glowing white cross standing in mountains

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March 2022

‘We Are Our Mountains’: Revisiting Artsakh

Zoe Valery

Essay

March 2022

I. Base New York. September 27, 2020   War breaks out. A war to wipe a country off the...

Interview

Issue No. 32

Interview with Ocean Vuong

Alok Vaid-Menon

Interview

Issue No. 32

‘Dear Ma, I am writing to reach you,’ begins Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019). It is an...

a painting in which two people stand discussing a model of a building. In the background a third person is inspecting another model. the windows in the background look onto the sea
a painting in which two people stand discussing a model of a building. In the background a third person is inspecting another model. the windows in the background look onto the sea

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March 2022

Editorial: Issue 32

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March 2022

‘All of our myths come out of looking at the stars and finding a metaphor for them’, says Ocean...
A Letter from Moscow

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March 2022

Anonymous

TR. Sasha Dugdale

Essay

March 2022

These are difficult days, everything is gone: our sense of life, of the future. I think a lot about the past – how did...
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silhouette of a woman with dragonfly wings

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Issue No. 32

Insect Woman

Polly Barton

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Issue No. 32

Above: the art for Togawa’s debut album Tamahime Sama.   I’m standing outside a convenience store in Shin-Ōkubo, dressed as...

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abstract red and yellow geometric image

Interview

Issue No. 32

Interview with Irenosen Okojie

Leon Craig

Interview

Issue No. 32

Irenosen Okojie’s first novel Butterfly Fish (2015) follows Joy, a photographer in London who inherits a cursed brass head and...
Interview with Silvia Federici

Interview

January 2022

Rachel Andrews

Interview

January 2022

A few years ago, I read Revolution at Point Zero (2012), Silvia Federici’s career-spanning collection of essays on reproductive work and domestic labour. The...

 

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