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The September 2017 online issue promotes the launch of The White Review Anthology, a collection of fiction and nonfiction from our first seven years We also publish, in full, Felix Bazalgette’s expose of the United Kingdom immigration detention system (published in our twentieth print issue) to coincide with the Panorama revelations about the abuse of inmates It is with sadness that we mark the passing of one of the United States’ greatest poets, John Ashbery, by publishing online the poem that we first printed in The White Review No 8
September 2017

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September 2017

Our April online issue features several pieces which draw links between questions of art, citizenship and resistance Robert Assaye reports from Documenta 14, the latest incarnation of a festival which ‘has historically been defined by its profound suspicion of the systems of money and power that serve to instrumentalise art’ Exploring the festival’s history from 1955 to the current show in Athens, Assaye interrogates the connections between Documenta’s five-yearly presentations and the socio-political circumstances in which it is staged   Elsewhere, Joe Bucciero examines the interdisciplinary work of artist Mark Leckey and music group The KLF, whose return after a hiatus of over twenty years was heralded by a mysterious video disseminated online in January Bucciero suggests that ‘these artists, in their work, appropriate not only the specific sounds and images of Thatcher-era English culture, but also the ritual-like energy that coursed through it’, and asks whether the decadent landscapes of media symbols that Leckey and The KLF assemble hold the potential to be sites of resistance   We are pleased to continue our collaboration with the University of Liverpool and its Centre for New and International Writing, here presenting three pieces commissioned by its Citizens of Everywhere project, which aims to generate dialogue and response to recent political shifts in Europe and America Vahni Capildeo’s personal essay ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’ reflects on her identity as a ‘Nowherian’ after the Brexit referendum; we also publish poems by Mona Arshi and Fady Joudah   Finally, we present a wide-ranging interview with Mark Greif, author of Against Everything and co-founder of n1

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April 2017

April 2017

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April 2017

Our April online issue features several pieces which draw links between questions of art, citizenship and resistance. Robert Assaye reports...

We’re pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of The White Review No 19 The new issue comes out at the end of the month, but to whet your appetite we’ve made some content available online Read our interview with ALVARO ENRIGUE, a Mexican writer in New York, ALICE HATTRICK’s meditation on illness and intimacy, an excerpt from VIRGINIE DESPENTES’ scintillating new novel Vernon Subutex (trans Frank Wynne), and new poems from SOPHIE ROBINSON Exclusive to our online issue is a timely interview with artist HAJRA WAHEED and new poems from DAVID NASH Only available in the print issue are interviews with the philosopher ROSI BRAIDOTTI, on how the humanities can combat racism and sexism, and artist RACHEL MACLEAN, whose hyper-surreal dystopian videos offer a dark vision on the present times (and who also contributes a concertina insert of her recent prints) Long form essays by JACQUELINE FELDMAN, on feminist protest group Femen; and conceptual artist JILL MAGID on her stay at the house of the late Luis Barragán THOMAS CLERC contributes a beautiful homage to his friend EDOUARD LEVE, whose writing has featured in previous issues of The White Review The issue also includes new fiction by JASON SCHWARTZ, poetry from CA CONRAD, and art work from DAVID NOONAN and FRANCIS UPRITCHARD
February 2017

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February 2017

In our lead interview, Cassie Davies talks to artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose compositions merge ‘Nigerianness’ and ‘Americanness’ Elsewhere Lucy Ives interviews New Narrative writer Dodie Bellamy on her writing process, E T, and how the novel used to be an experimental form We have new hotel-and-sleeping-themed fiction by short story writer and novelist Stuart Evers, and a new piece, The Miserablist’, plumbing the breakdown of language by poet, essayist and visual artist Anne Boyer We also have Izabella Scott writing about rocks, the Mafia, and cursed objects in Naples, while Agnieszka Gratza goes in search of northern lights during a residency at Roni Horn’s Library of Water in Iceland Iphgenia Baal contributes a new poem, ‘what are your wedding plans and have you taken your pill’; we also publish Harriet Moore’s ‘Gentle’, from a long sequence of poems about bitterness
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