(Parentheses) Review is an art and literary magazine based in London with a global purview.
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1. A word or phrase inserted as an explanation or afterthought, adding extra information(A place to house personal writing that is critical and engaged)2. An interlude or interval (A magazine for people who see literary criticism in their everyday lives)Editors
is looking for texts that sit at the intersection of the self and its contexts; pieces that layer feminism like the drapes of a Sari; your evolving inner world; the conscious, unconscious, and the subconscious; anti-colonial; anti-eurocentric; anti-patriarchal.is looking for texts about Blackness; womanhood; absence and silence; a palimpsest; the trace a body leaves; experimental, fragmented and scattered form; words bent with the back of a teaspoon; and postcolonial thoughts.is looking for texts on comedy, drag and that surreal performance art you saw in a basement; design and non-design; the social, economic and political ramifications of architecture; the overlooked and underscrutinised; writing through objects; gender, bodies and motherhood (not necessarily in that order).is looking for texts about landscape and the experience of nature; explorations of how place informs identity, how community is created; paintings and craft, both old and new; unexpected thoughts on popular culture; writing that rambles like a walk in the woods, that gradually unravels, that comes apart at the edges, that defies definition.is looking for texts about sex and sexuality; queerness; truth and non-truth; masculinity; a sucker punch; a wallet lost behind the sofa cushions; a candle you burnt too long; and art reviews.is looking for texts about weird music; experimental feminist filmmaking; dancing choreographed in living rooms; finding community in the city and humble psychogeography; pub politics; relationships with national identity; puppetry; and bicycle kicks.Contact us
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We want to be able to keep commissioning this type, and quality, of writing, and we want to ensure that all of our pieces are available to be read, for free, by everyone. We are also in the process of producing our first print issue. Your donations will help cover the costs of running the digital magazine and producing the print issue. If you are in a position to donate any funds to us (a little goes a long way), you can do so here. We are very grateful for your support.