THE WHITE REVIEW is a quarterly arts, culture and politics magazine, published in print and online, and established on a non-profit economic model. The first issue , which launched in February 2011, is available now in bookshops and on our website www.thewhitereview.org.
Edited, designed and defined by an emergent generation of writers and artists, the magazine is creating a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre.
Our second issue, due out in May, will feature interviews with author William Boyd – creator of the ‘lost’ abstract expressionist painter Nat Tate – on literature, sculptor Richard Wentworth of the RCA on contemporary art, and critical theorist Michael Hardt, whose Empire, written with Antonio Negri, was described as the ‘Communist Manifesto of the 21st century’ by Slavoj Žižek.
We’ll also be publishing new fiction by Peruvian writer Diego Trelles Paz -- a haunting story set in the Harry Ransom Center’s surrealist museum -- translated by Janet Hendrickson. Another short story is ‘Religion and the Movies’, by young British writer Aidan Cottrell Boyce, whose work we have already featured online.
We’ll also be featuring JH Engstrom’s photography and artwork by Noam Toran, as well as a range of essays and reportage by young authors on topics such as poetry and the slum, Neapolitan religious festivals and Sri Lankan contemporary art.
In light of the recent public funding cuts in the arts world, we are seeking the help of generous philanthropists who share our conviction that emerging talents deserve greater exposure. Funding for our second issue, which goes to print in May 2011, will mostly come from sales of issue one. However, in order to meet our £8, 000 budget, we need you to help us raise an extra £2, 500. Please help us prove that there is an alternative model for publishing.
Thank you very much for your support!
Feedback from the first issue
The first issue features in-depth interviews with Tom McCarthy, Andre Schiffrin and Paula Rego, previously unpublished letters written by Primo Levi and new writing by D.W. Wilson and Desmond Hogan. For the dust jacket, The White Review commissioned Viktor Timofeev, an artist living in Berlin who has exhibited in the UK, France, Germany, Latvia and the US.
The review’s appeal as a collectible object has been met with widespread enthusiasm, with the TLS applauding The White Review for investing in 'the attention to design and typefaces that makes… the business of reading an intimate act, as much as a cerebral one.' Dazed and Confused have called it ‘one of the most handsome and astutely edited periodicals that we’ve seen come out of this town in ages.’
In a recent post on his blog Tiny Camels, writer Jonathan Gibbs described his search for the literary magazine that best captured ‘the spirit of the age’, singling out The White Review as ‘the journal of my dreams’. Blogging for The Creative Review, Mark Sinclair described The White Review as having ‘serious intentions and an elegant way of expressing them’, adding that it ‘has the potential to cause a bit of mischief in this somewhat staid arena.’ Simon Armstrong, book buyer for the Tate, also felt that the review provided a welcome change, tweeting: ‘It’s like they opened a window in a stuffy library to let some fresh air in.'
Please follow this link for more from the Creative Review on TWR, and some great images of the first issue too: http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/march/the-white-review
