The White Review

The White Review
Issue 8
Editor Francesca Wade, Željka Marošević
Former editors Benjamin Eastham, Jacques Testard
Categories Literature and the visual arts
Frequency Quarterly
Founder Benjamin Eastham, Jacques Testard
First issue February 2011 (2011-02)
Country United Kingdom
Based in London
Language English
Website thewhitereview.org
OCLC number 957136213

The White Review is a London-based magazine on literature and the visual arts. It is published in print and online.

History

The White Review was founded by editors Benjamin Eastham and Jacques Testard, and released its first issue in print in February 2011. The quarterly print edition was originally designed Ray O'Meara, and carries poetry, short fiction, essays and interviews alongside photography and art.

The White Review website is frequently updated with new web-only content and excerpts from the print edition. The website, like the print edition, carries essays, interviews, poetry and fiction.

In an interview with Creative Review, the founding editors stated that The White Review was intended as "a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre".[1] Talking to US-based magazine Bookforum, they explained that they were inspired to establish a British-based equivalent to publications including n+1, Guernica, Cabinet, the Paris Review[2] and Bomb,[3] while an early interview with It's Nice That quoted them as saying that the magazine would endeavour to "stay close to new writing and emerging art".[4]

In 2013, The White Review Short Story Prize was launched to find and foster new British and Irish writing talent. Claire-Louise Bennett, winner of the inaugural prize in 2013 for ‘The Lady of the House’, has gone on to become one of the most exciting writers today.[5] Subsequent winners of the prize include Ruby Cowling, Owen Booth, Sophie Mackintosh, Nicole Flattery and Julia Armfield.[6] Many have since published novels[7][8]; Sophie Mackintosh's debut novel 'The Water Cure' was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize[9]. The White Review Poets Prize was introduced in 2017 to reward a poetry portfolio by an emerging poet, and was awarded to Lucy Mercer.[10]

After 20 print issues, The White Review's print iteration was redesigned and a new editorial team, led by Francesca Wade and Željka Marošević, was introduced.

Interviews

Each issue of the journal includes long-form interviews with writers and artists. Notable interview subjects have included Annie Ernaux, Margo Jefferson, Jenny Offill, Claudia Rankine, Elmgreen and Dragset, George Saunders, Michael Hardt, Tom McCarthy, Paula Rego, Hari Kunzru, André Schiffrin, Will Self, Marina Warner, Chris Kraus, Sophie Calle, Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Richard Wentworth. The website has also carried interviews with David Graeber, Jonathan Safran Foer, DBC Pierre, Cornelia Parker, Wayne Koestenbaum, and others.

Contributors

Notable contributors have included Ned Beauman, Joshua Cohen, John Ashbery, Chris Kraus, Lee Rourke, Anne Carson, Sally Rooney, Leslie Jamison, Nicola Barker, China Mieville, Alice Oswald, Dorothea Lasky, Adam Thirlwell, and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

References

  1. ↑ Sinclair, Mark. "The White Review". Creative Review. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Elise Blanchard. "London-Based Lit Mags". The Review Review. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "bookforum talks to the white review". Bookforum. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "The White Review No.2". It's Nice that. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  5. ↑ "On The White Review Anthology - The White ReviewThe White Review". www.thewhitereview.org. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  6. ↑ "The White Review Short Story Prize 2018 - The White ReviewThe White Review". www.thewhitereview.org. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  7. ↑ "Fatherly advice book to 4th Estate | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  8. ↑ "Picador wins auction for Armfield short stories | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  9. ↑ "The Man Booker Prize 2018 Longlist announced | The Man Booker Prizes". themanbookerprize.com. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  10. ↑ "Lucy Mercer - The White ReviewThe White Review". www.thewhitereview.org. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
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