The White Review - The White Review is an arts and literature magazine that publishes fiction, essays, interviews, poetry, and series of artworks, both in print and online. In 2017 it branched into criticism, with book and art reviews now appearing online each month. Its print edition is published quarterly. The White Review - The White Review is an arts and literature magazine that publishes fiction, essays, interviews, poetry, and series of artworks, both in print and online. In 2017 it branched into criticism, with book and art reviews now appearing online each month. Its print edition is published quarterly. The White Review Current Issue Interviews_page Fiction_Page Art Page Features Page Poetry Toggle navigation Latest Reviews Features Fiction Poetry Print Prizes Events Shop Latest Reviews Features Fiction Poetry Print Prizes Events Shop About Subscribe Stockists Donate Advertise Contact Submissions Search Launching The White Review Writing in Translation Anthology EventsMarch 2024 EventsMarch 2024 Thursday 11 April / TANK, 91 Great Portland Street / 6:30 pm, Readings from 7:30 pm / Tickets   Join us at TANK to... LATEST NewsJuly 2023 An Open Call to Translators: The White Review Translation Anthology NewsJuly 2023 The White Review is delighted to announce that we will be publishing an anthology of writing in translation. The... PoetryJuly 2023 Seven Poems Hasti PoetryJuly 2023 POET AS CYBORG PORNSTAR   It starts with the turn. Their slender edges, the slow reveal from margin to... FictionJuly 2023 Settlers Landing Travis Jeppesen FictionJuly 2023 As Taggerston’s morning televised administrative work is winding down, the cast and crew of Lives of the Innocents accumulate... Latest Issue The White Review No. 33 BUY NOW £14.99 The White Review No. 33 features interviews with writer Siri Hustvedt and feminist scholar Sara Ahmed. The issue includes new fiction by Gina Apostol,... UPCOMING Prize Entry 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. ... INFO ABOUT SHOP SUBSCRIBE STOCKISTS Mailing List Sign-up here for news, events, promotions, etc. Latest Issue The White Review No. 33 The White Review No. 33 features interviews with writer Siri Hustvedt and feminist scholar Sara Ahmed. The issue includes new fiction by Gina Apostol, Mircea Cărtărescu (translated by Sean... BUY NOW £12.99 ADVERTISMENT INFO ABOUT SHOP SUBSCRIBE STOCKISTS Mailing List Sign-up here for news, events, promotions, etc. UPCOMING Prize Entry 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. ... SUPPORTERS RECENT Magdalene Laundries EssayJuly 2023 Rachel Andrews EssayJuly 2023 Dublin, February, 2022   It’s late afternoon, blustery. There are clouds overhead. Doors are closed, the pavements are quiet. The building comes up on... Book ReviewJune 2023 On Marriage, Netflix, and Other Things I Hate Orit Gat Book ReviewJune 2023 1. ‘It’s kind of crazy to shop at Target, watch Netflix, drive a Honda, and still have a husband.’... InterviewJune 2023 Interview with Garrett Bradley Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou InterviewJune 2023 The polymorphic work of American artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley challenges notions of linearity to reveal the circularity in... EssayJune 2023 The forgotten angel of history Yvonne Singh EssayJune 2023 ‘My great fear is that we are suffering from... EssayJune 2023 Without World Alex Quicho EssayJune 2023 ‘I had to create a world of my own,... Book ReviewJune 2023 Cosy Violence Leon Craig Book ReviewJune 2023 The 22 year old Australian narrator of K Patrick’s... Prize EntryJanuary 2023 The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023 Prize EntryJanuary 2023 Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s Poet’s... EventsJune 2023 The White Review Poet’s Prize Party 2023 EventsJune 2023 Thursday 20 July / Reference Point / £3.00 +... EventJuly 2023 The White Review Summer Party 2023 EventJuly 2023 Thursday 13 July / Bold Tendencies, Peckham / Doors 6:30 pm, Readings from 7:30pm / Tickets   This year,... Prize EntryJune 2023 Tyranny of the Pomegranate Reem Abbas Prize EntryJune 2023 I mind my pomegranate like an open door watch... Prize EntryJune 2023 Inside Harbour Point, Lagos Island jọkẹ́ Bọ́dndé Prize EntryJune 2023 We dance like we are on fire. Perhaps we... Prize EntryJune 2023 Fish-woman Courtney DuChene Prize EntryJune 2023 As I swam in the bathtub, they wondered what... Prize EntryJune 2023 Marylebone Station 1974 Marius Grose Prize EntryJune 2023 The first man who cruised me was a policeman... Poet as Cyborg Pornstar Prize EntryJune 2023 Hasti Prize EntryJune 2023 It starts with the turn. Her slender edges, the slow reveal from margin to bombshell, the hormonal show of the real: whatever it is,... Prize EntryJune 2023 at our table Dillon Jaxx Prize EntryJune 2023 we eat our own tongues              wash off the dirt the villagers flung                        coat them in flour ground... Prize EntryJune 2023 Jungle Girl Yessica Klein Prize EntryJune 2023 I. bushmeat consumption has been forbidden since 1965 but Jungle Girl doesn’t know it – there’s armadillo roast for... Prize EntryJune 2023 Bad Daughters Lola Oh Prize EntryJune 2023 After Frannie Choi   leaving, good daughters staying home... InterviewMay 2023 Interview with Geetanjali Shree Reya Divekar InterviewMay 2023 In her 2022 International Booker Prize-winning novel, Tomb of... EssayMay 2023 Hating it Lush: On Tel Aviv Kaleem Hawa EssayMay 2023 I   They made the desert bloom, tall sparkling... From the archiveIssue No. 31 Three Poems Fran Lock From the archiveIssue No. 31 #DROWNINGNOTDROWNING   to find me, plausible and aspiring in... Art ReviewMay 2023 A little menace is fine Naomi Pearce Art ReviewMay 2023 Don’t you ever want the kind of family where... InterviewApril 2023 Interview with Kathryn Scanlan Samir Chadha InterviewApril 2023 The first story in The Dominant Animal, Kathryn Scanlan’s 2020 collection, is called ‘The First Whiffs of Spring’. It... EssayIssue No. 25 Magnetised: A Conversation with Ricardo Melogno Carlos BusquedTR. Samuel Rutter EssayIssue No. 25 The following text is the condensed result of over... FictionApril 2023 Who Killed Bambi? Monika FagerholmTR. Bradley Harmon FictionApril 2023 LET’S START HERE. One morning, September 2014.              ... InterviewMarch 2023 Interview with Akram Zaatari Julia Kozakiewicz InterviewMarch 2023 Akram Zaatari was born in Saida, Lebanon in 1966.... From the archiveIssue No. 26 Country Matters Sarah Fletcher From the archiveIssue No. 26 DEDICATION   Flamingo, urchin, bestiaric beast: Paroling city matters,... Attachment Barbies: On Watching Grey’s Anatomy EssayMarch 2023 Helen Charman EssayMarch 2023 In August 2022, ABC announced that Ellen Pompeo, currently the highest-paid actress on American network television, was leaving Grey’s Anatomy, the show on which... Book ReviewMarch 2023 Trash Like This Megan Nolan Book ReviewMarch 2023 There’s an anecdote I sometimes wheel out to strangers or dates to convey the sort of child I was,... FictionIssue No. 10 Resistance Chris Kraus FictionIssue No. 10 31 Standish Ave., Rosedale, Toronto 5 7 February, 1963     Dear Mr and Mrs Tuck,   Thank you... On the Altar of the Rat King Art ReviewMarch 2023 Sam Moore Art ReviewMarch 2023 Walking into Surrender, Jenkin van Zyl’s installation in which a film loops on the wall of a mock-up of a motel room, I found... 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