The White Review, No. 18

by Benjamin Eastham (Editor), Jacques Testard (Editor)

The White Review is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in London in February 2011 to provide 'a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre', and publishes fiction, essays, interviews with writers and artists, poetry, and series of artworks.

200 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2016

Reviews

[Mandi Fast · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection contains a short story titled “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney which was originally published in 2016. The story shares a moment in time from the lives of Marianne and Connell. She would later go on to publish “Normal People” in 2018. LOVE THIS STORY FOREVER. THANK YOU IRELAND!

[Juliano · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Connell has only seen Marianne crying once before, when they were teenagers.” Sally Rooney’s ‘At The Clinic’, written before Normal People but featuring its famous couple later, at 23 years old, opens The White Review No. 18 (October 2016) with Rooney’s classic emotional precision and deft humour. There’s a great interview with Eileen Myles, poems from Sam Riviere and Dorothea Lasky, and a brilliant closing essay from Leslie Jamison, ‘The Disquieting Muses’ (available to read on TWR’s website), so open in its introspection and critique. The journal is also put together with such extraordinarily high quality that it really is a thing to behold. I’ve ordered a few more recent issues and can’t wait to get stuck in.

[Emma Hicks]

I marked this on here because this is originally where “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney was published. It is a short story about Marianne and Connell from Normal People actually written and published before Normal People. I found it really interesting because it shows she had these characters in her mind for years, and they underwent a lot of changes while she was writing Normal People. This story takes place after the events of Normal People but also weirdly feels like a prequel because a lot of Marianne and Connell’s traits are different here. I just think it’s really cool that these 2 characters appear in a short story years ago, and then she found them important enough to write a novel which has become incredibly popular and impacted so many people.

[Maya · Rating 5 out of 5]

at the clinic

[Nad · Rating 5 out of 5]

used to rate « at the clinic » (by sally rooney)