The White Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Arts & literary journal online & in print | TWR takes its name from the fin de siècle magazine LA REVUE BLANCHE | Issue 33 out now

Is Mother Dead
Vigdis Hjorth
“Hjorth has tapped into the novel in a way I have not seen or experienced since Woolf, Kafka, and Bernhard.” —@MakennaGoodman1 Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth is out 25 October with @VersoBooks. #Ad https://t.co/keaIvKYFwf https://t.co/n5khROiilJ
Paperback, 2023
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Marriage
Devorah Baum
New online: an essay by @oritgat around ON MARRIAGE by Devorah Baum. https://t.co/5JiAEXu4LZ
Hardcover, 2023
$27.50$13.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rifqa
Mohammed El-Kurd
Today we’re publishing Momtaza Mehri’s review of Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd), a collection that ‘taps into and extends a rich vein of Palestinian poetry, contending with the internal and external dislocation experienced under Israeli occupation.’ https://t.co/p8p078wBWF
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree
New online this week: Reya Divekar’s interview with Geetanjali Shree, who won the 2023 International Booker Prize for TOMB OF SAND (tr. @shreedaisy). https://t.co/Rv3EpVMqsM
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Axiomatic
Maria Tumarkin
Excellent chance to pick up AXIOMATIC ahead of Maria Tumarkin's event with @jessicazmyu next Thursday 18th: https://t.co/ni1W45yuQy (or books by recent TWR contributors Fernanda Melchor, Annie Ernaux, Olga Tokarczuk, Claire-Louise Bennett, Camilla Grudova, Virginie Despentes...) https://t.co/phq2tl9URI
Paperback, 2019
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Show Them a Good Time
Nicole Flattery
💫 This is it! The final day to support our annual fundraiser is here. Our newest reward for you is a real treat: a short story consultation with @nicoleflattery, author of Show Them a Good Time and winner of the 2017 White Review Short Story Prize. https://twitter.com/TheWhiteReview/status/1466758984464056320
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Zone
Mathias Énard
For #InternationalTranslationDay: an excerpt from ZONE by Mathias Enard (the first book published by @FitzcarraldoEds), translated by @avecsesdoigts – originally published online in 2014. https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/zone/
Paperback, 2010
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley
Support our fundraiser and you could claim three recent titles from @GrantaBooks: My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley, Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez tr. Megan McDowell and Endless Flight by Keiron Pim. UK Only. https://t.co/68v7VxJKJH
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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‘Women alone or apart from men, women together being funny.’ New online: Rose Higham-Stainton’s ode to feminist performance troupe Cunning Stunts, formed in 1977 by her late godmother Jan Dungey. https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/a-cunning-stunt/
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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Amitav Ghosh
💫 New online: Rhoda Feng reviews THE NUTMEG’S CURSE by Amitav Ghosh (@GhoshAmitav). https://t.co/v6boXzWFAL
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book