The White Review No.29. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The White Review No.29

The White Review No. 29 features interviews with poet Fanny Howe, novelist and memoirist Scholastique Mukasonga and artist Ingrid Pollard, who also provides the issue's cover. We present new fiction by Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life Brandon Taylor, Ilya Leutin (tr. Anna Aslanyan) and Elizabeth O'Connor, whose story 'Woman With a White Pekingese' is the winner of the White Review Short Story Prize 2020. Emily Berry's essay 'The Secret Country of Her Mind' is a polyvocal account of agoraphobia in dialogue with photographer Jacqui Kenny; Caleb Azumah Nelson's 'On Solace' explores languages of mourning and expressions of community, while Victoria Adukwei Bulley's 'On Water' traverses global colonial history, seeking new forms of kinship as she investigates her own lineage. Poetry series are contributed by Laura Elliott, Jennifer Lee Tsai and Jack Underwood, while series of artworks are presented from Adam Pendleton and Hervé Guibert.

ADAM PENDLETON (b. 1984, Richmond, Virginia) is recognised for his conceptual practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, writing, film, and performance. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions across the United States and abroad, at institutions including the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (2008); Kunstverein, Amsterdam (2009); The Kitchen, New York (2010); the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio (2016); Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017); Baltimore Museum of Art (2017).. HERVÉ GUIBERT (1955 – 91) was a French writer and photographer. He was the author of some thirty books and played a significant role in changing public attitudes in France toward AIDS. Hervé Guibert died at the age of 36 in Paris following a failed suicide attempt.

CALEB AZUMAH NELSON is a 26-year-old British-Ghanaian writer and photographer living in south-east London. His writing has been published in Litro. He was recently shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize and the BBC National Short Story Prize 2020, and won the People’s Choice prize. His debut novel, Open Water, is out next year.

VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and has held artistic residencies internationally in the US, Brazil and at the V&A Museum in London. A Complete Works and Instituto Sacatar fellow, her pamphlet Girl B (Akashic) forms part of the 2017 New-Generation African Poets series. She is a doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the recipient of a Technē studentship for doctoral research in Creative Writing.

EMILY BERRY is the author of two poetry collections, Dear Boy (2013) and Stranger, Baby (2017), both from Faber. She edits The Poetry Review. Many Nights, a photobook featuring Jacqui Kenny’s pictures and the complete version of ‘The Secret Country of her Mind’, will be published in 2021.

BRANDON TAYLOR is the author of the novel Real Life, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. His work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, The New York Times, The New Yorker online, The Literary Review and elsewhere. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow.

ELIZABETH O’CONNOR lives and works in Birmingham. She recently received her PhD in modernist poetry, and is interested in writing about natural history, animals and plants. She is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2020.