The Whitney Review Issue 4

Interviews with Claudia Rankine, Vigdis Hjorth, Tama Janowitz, and Walter K. Scott. Essays on
Blaxploitation, the Bront sisters, and Kevin Killian's Amazon reviews. Plus comics, poetry, and
The Whitney Review's signature chorus of short-format reviews. Contributors include A. S.
Hamrah, E. Jane, Bruce LaBruce, Oscar yi Hou, Alex Auder, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Tao Lin, Amber
Later, Brad Phillips, Brandon Harris, Nicolaia Rips, Julien Ceccaldi, Linda Simpson, Michael
Bullock, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Geoffrey Mak, Joseph Akel, Candystore, Taylor Lewandowski, Max
Battle, and many more. Abolish Rent, fag/hag, Dear Dickhead, Tweakerworld, and Napalm in the
Heart are among the books reviewed. Steven Phillips-Horst skewers c* ns* r*d instagram
captions. Max Steele asks can masochism be gentrified? Published biannually, The Whitney
Review of New Writing is a bold expansion of literary criticism. The fourth issue is about clowns,
sell-outs, loneliness, and fancy.