The Whitney Review #3
268 x 380mm, 40 pages
New York, US
First published 2023
Biannual
Editor: Whitney Mallett
Art director: Immanuel Yang
‘Dedicated to New Writing’
The Whitney Review of New Writing is a project by multi-magaziner Whitney Mallett (of Pin-Up, Editorial and Gayletter), who spotted a gap for a review dedicated to new writing, emphasis on the new. Instead of the long and sprawling essays by well-established writers regularly spotted in other reviews, The Whitney Review aims to shake up the traditional format of this genre of printed publication. Plus, its tabloid format featuring only text—there are no images in this publication—looks great and highlights its subject.
As well as books and journals, expect reviews of other forms of writing—a film script, an art show press release, etc.
After a red issue, a green issue, this is the blue issue, and promises ‘surface, friction, inheritance and debts’. Every page is split in half, the top half carrying the longer writing and bottom half the briefer review pieces. Each half is 180 degrees inverted to the other—read from the front for the longer texts, turn the mag round and read from the back for the briefs.