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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
The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023 is now open for entries. This year, we’re thrilled to be able to accept entries from poets based anywhere in the world.  ...

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Interview with Susanna Moore

Interview

September 2022

Rosa Lyster

Interview

September 2022

Susanna Moore’s memoir, Miss Aluminum (2020), takes its title from a trade show at the New York Coliseum in the late 1960s, where a...

Essay

September 2022

Getting Rid of It

Ariel Saramandi

Essay

September 2022

As a schoolgirl I was told that abortion was illegal in Mauritius. No exceptions. There was no reason for...

Interview

August 2022

Interview with Yaa Gyasi

Alok Vaid-Menon

Interview

August 2022

In my first year of college I auditioned for our school’s spoken word poetry collective. There was this tradition...

Essay

August 2022

Four Years

Oliver Basciano

Essay

August 2022

Seeing the pen hover millimetres above my notebook in anticipation, Dona Vilma holds up her hand. ‘Ask me anything...

an chair behind an empty table. The background is a pleated blue curtain, and there is a bouquet of roses on the table. a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah hangs on one side, a folded flag of pakistan on the other.
an chair behind an empty table. The background is a pleated blue curtain, and there is a bouquet of roses on the table. a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah hangs on one side, a folded flag of pakistan on the other.

Interview

Issue No. 33

Interview with Bani Abidi

Skye Arundhati Thomas

Interview

Issue No. 33

In the three-minute short Mangoes (1999) by Berlin-based Pakistani artist Bani Abidi, two women sit next to each other on...

Essay

July 2022

The Weeping Woman

Isabelle Dupuy

Essay

July 2022

We were clearing the dishes after dinner when I found myself telling my 15 year old son the story...
The Inheritors

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Issue No. 33

Ariel Saramandi

Essay

Issue No. 33

It is a story told in every Creole family I know in Mauritius. It is often narrated during a long drive: a window rolls...
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astronomical photograph, with a bright cloudy area in the lower left and stars dotted throughout

Interview

Issue No. 33

Interview with Siri Hustvedt

Noga Arikha

Interview

Issue No. 33

Very few writers in the twenty-first century are polymaths of the sort that previous centuries sometimes spawned – those...

a photograph of a thin tree with bright light behind it in a forest
a photograph of a thin tree with bright light behind it in a forest

Interview

June 2022

Warped Pastoral: Ralf Webb and Sam Buchan-Watts in Conversation

Ralf Webb

Interview

June 2022

Sam Buchan-Watts’s Path Through Wood, published in October 2021, begins where you would think: in a coppice, where branches tick...
Who is a Revolutionary Subject?

Essay

June 2022

Helen Mackreath

Essay

June 2022

In the face of legal restraints, police repression, political violence and the pressures and insecurity precipitated by the pandemic, the feminist movement in Turkey...

 

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