THE WHITNEY REVIEW ISSUE 006

THE WHITNEY REVIEW ISSUE 006From the press: The Whitney Review of New Writing is expanding literary criticism. Bringing together author interviews, literary essays, and short format book reviews, it offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the culture of reading and writing. The sixth issue features conversations with John Keene and Abdu Ali; Judith Thurman and Harry Tafoya; and Francesca Lia Block and James Nulick. Plus essays, poetry, and 70+ reviews by leading voices from

Hannah Weiner

Sophia Terazawa

"There is no silence that is ever empty of meaning

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

and ethics in a fractured American present

a “black”

From the press: Sara Deniz Akant's Babette

James Langdon looks at the conundrum of the visual communication of neuroscience

and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa

” —Josiah Morgan

The volume responds primarily to the twenty-first century's inescapable evidence of the terms of black life—not so much new as newly visible

First published in 1927