iylshowcase: Reading Room - The White Review - No 17“We sincerely hoped that this editorial would tu
iylshowcase: Reading Room - The White Review - No 17“We sincerely hoped that this editorial would turn out to be more comical than anything else. It has turned out not to be the case. Nevertheless, we hope that you’ll enjoy this issue, put together at a particularly strange and troubling time.”This historical context affecting the reading of the magazine whatever, the content is all very clear.The White review is an injection of contemporary literature into the British circulation. Not being a magazine primarily, but an episodic platform for the exposure of new work. The production value is what speaks to this, it is the first thing you see/feel.The visuals from Batia Suter are great in her clarity of visual language. Suter in her pictures-on-pictures style, combining imagery in a way that augments the historical photos and landscape imagery in a way that connotes a complexity a depth of meaning that occupies the aesthetics of simply abstract photographs. The writing from Kyle Coma-Thompson is fragmented, satisfyingly tangential, threading historical nuggets, personal observations and facts that, similarly mosaic, create a style that is surprisingly fluid and engaging. I recommend both.No. 17 of The White Review is out now. -- source link