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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

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Book Cover for: Is Mother Dead, Vigdis Hjorth

Is Mother Dead

Vigdis Hjorth
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“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
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On Marriage

Devorah Baum
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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
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Book Cover for: Rifqa, Mohammed El-Kurd

Rifqa

Mohammed El-Kurd
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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
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Book Cover for: Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree

Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree
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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
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Book Cover for: Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin

Axiomatic

Maria Tumarkin
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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
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Book Cover for: Show Them a Good Time, Nicole Flattery

Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
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💫 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
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Book Cover for: Zone, Mathias Énard

Zone

Mathias Énard
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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
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Book Cover for: My Phantoms, Gwendoline Riley

My Phantoms

Gwendoline Riley
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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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Book Cover for: Cunning stunts: 6x9 BMX - dotgrid - dot grid paper - notebook - notes, Bmx Notebooks

Cunning stunts: 6x9 BMX - dotgrid - dot grid paper - notebook - notes

Bmx Notebooks
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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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Book Cover for: The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, Amitav Ghosh

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh
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💫 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
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