a text about slow art, and also My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and Tehching Hsieh, and sickness, but mostly slowness -- u can find the text version here & u can find book pre-order link here

This is a text about a specific painting: The Unbearable Lightness of Forgetting My Name by Noorain Inam, that I saw a couple months back at Noorain's solo show, Go back to sleep, it’s just the wind at Indigo + Madder. It's also a text about painting and imagining, your mind's eye and clarity, about feeling like things are over there but then also within you.

read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/noorain-inam-TULOFMN

& if u don't know, now u know: you can pre-order our book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Poor Artists, here⁠⁠⁠⁠ (& ⁠⁠⁠⁠here if ur in the US⁠⁠⁠⁠).

Thank you to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠friends & supporters on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- if you'd like to support our work, ⁠⁠⁠⁠pls see our support page⁠⁠⁠⁠ for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE BANK HOL!!! love u! xxxx

I have been writing about problems for a while so I think it is time to talk about solutions. This episode is about a project by Cassie Thornton that is about to make my life better. You can find the text version here, the Hologram here, our book pre-order link here if you're in the UK and here if you're in the US 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️

This week's text is a review of SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE, a game by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. This text is (tbh) less a review, more a document or journal entry of my experience playing through, a way for me to write through my feelings and hold on to the intensity of this game. 

You can read the written version of this on our website here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/she-keeps-me-damn-alive/

You can watch Gab & Danielle's conversation here: gdlp.co.uk/posts/arebyte-interview/

You can support us on Patreon here: patreon.com/thewhitepube (& thank you to our patrons!!!)

This week's text is a review of the new Pokémon: Legends Arceus game. When the game came out, I literally sat down and played it for 5 days without moving, having the time of my life. But when it came to writing about it, I started to think about what I really want from a Pokémon game and how Arceus did and didn't match up. 

Written version of this review is available on our website here :)

Thank you to our Patreon supporters :) love you

This week's text is a review of Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, a show at Touchstones by Jasleen Kaur and a group of collaborators from Rochdale. 

The written version of this text is available on thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/gutfeelingsmerijaan/

And as usual, thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting our weekly writing! Hope u all have a cute n happy Valentines weekend, here r some kisses from us, 2 u xxxxxx

This week's review is on Unpacking, a small pixel art puzzle game about unpacking items into rooms, available now on Switch, Xbox, PC/Mac. And so, I... didn't love it. But this text is about how, actually, I don't even want to love everything I play. Do you know what I mean? Sometimes love is too much, sometimes I only want things to be fine. 

The written version of this text is available on thewhitepube.com/games/unpacking

Thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting our weekly writing! 

This week's text is a Very Embarrassing essay about why i love period dramas & yearning. tl;dr, they've got Hot Vibes. and other things have those same vibe. And i think i'm toxic femininity. down catastrophically bad, send help. 

You can read this text on thewhitepube.com/art-thoughts/perioddramas

Thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping us fed & watered & causing chaos. <3

This week's review on Apex Legends considers the narrative value of an elaborate first person shooter, or why I have just sunk 557 hours into a game that goes bang bang. I love it. This was the easiest review to write in the world, the most enjoyable. The only problem was it took me away from the game for a few hours. Okay, posting this review and then going back to where I belong, the world of Apex Legends. 

The written version of this text is available here.

Thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping the lights on (and the gas on, oh my god, the gas). 

Well, it's been a year. In today's episode, Gabrielle and Zarina sit down to talk about the impact Long Covid has had on Gabrielle's life, body, head, whole world. It's been a year of learning about the instability of chronic illness, trying to find stability through it, and failing over and over again. There is so much more to say on the matter but this is all the poison I could suck out of the wound for now. 

You can find the transcription for this episode here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/year-of-long-covid

Thank you to our Patreon supporters for their kindness and love. 

We are excited to begin 2022 by announcing the 17th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant... 🥁... Rasha Baraka. In this episode, we introduce Rasha's work and she reads out two short pieces of her writing; Letter to my Coloniser & Jealousy.

Bio: Rasha Baraka is a freelance journalist and writer currently studying an MA in Culture Industry. She promotes, shares, and writes about a shape-shifting culture while striving to platform a plethora of voices and stories that are often underrepresented or marginalised in the media. She is currently working on a digital exhibition with a group of multidisciplinary artists to explore the metaphor of the margins in relation to space and identity.

If you want the text versions, to look back at previous recipients, or to find out more about the grant, you can head here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/writersgrant :) 

It's my (ZM) first text of the year! kicking off 2022 with a review of Lubaina Himid's show at Tate Modern. It's also a text about good art, magic, dreams & stories - a love letter for some paintings that transported me. 

You can find the written version of this text here. 

Thank you to our Patreon supporters and thank you to all our listeners here - catch u next time xoxoxox

Happy new year! For our first episode back for 2022, I've written about the games I've been addicted to over the years, whilst wondering carefully if addiction is ever okay - ever helpful. Have you ever been addicted to a game? What did it mean to you at the time? You can find the written version of this text here. 

Thank you to our Patreon supporters and thank you to all our listeners here. It's gonna be a good year, I am determined. 

A text about the student occupation of Goldsmiths, for Palestine.

As mentioned, some links:

- STRIKE OUTSET, sign the pledge here, FAQs

- Goldsmiths 4 Palestine

Here's a link to the text, scroll down to the bottom if you want links to any of the student orgs for the unis mentioned at the end -- they're all linked & i'll whack those up on ig stories when i post this too (we are @thewhitepube) if you want more un to date info.

We're ending the year by announcing the 16th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant... 🥁... Molly Gough. In this episode, we introduce Molly's work and she reads out two short pieces of her writing.

If you want the text versions, to look back at previous recipients, or to find out more about the grant, you can head here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/writersgrant :) See you in 2022 :)

This week's text is a reflection on becoming disabled and how that has affected my writing. It's not what I want but maybe it's not all bad? And maybe thinking about good change instead of bad change all the time might help reframe what it means to be disabled (sometimes, for some people, like me). 

This is the final text on The White Pube for 2021 as we are about to go on our December break. We're still working behind the scenes on things like launching our new website, but we'll be quieter as we see out the year. Thank you everyone for your ongoing support, especially to our Patreon gang. I can't say thank you enough.

You can find the written version here and our Patreon is here. Have a nice Christmas everyone :)

This text is an art thought essay about the museum as part of the Neoliberal political project, a re-write of our 2018 text 'the Problem with Representation'. 

read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/institutions-identity

Thank you to our Patreon family for your support, and thanks to you for listening :) 

Gabrielle writing about art again? Oh my god, the world must truly be ending. This week's text is a Love Letter to the Art World. It is a love letter but I'm pissed; a letter full of heartbreak about art and disability and the lack of imagination by mega funded art institutions. You can find the written version on thewhitepube.com where there is also a handwritten version too! Cute. I wasn't originally going to share this text tbh. It was commissioned by the young artists society in Oslo, Norway, who asked me what I would like to say to a room full of art people. These words fell out of me quickly in the middle of the night. I didn't even edit it, just wanted to let it be raw and fast. But it felt like white pube 1.0 and for that reason, I'm sharing it here too. It's my second to last main text of the year before the annual December break so I hope you enjoy it (I can also tell you a secret here if you're still reading: I'm not going on my December break this year because doing work on the white pube is truly keeping me sane so I'll see you here anyway!!)

Thank you to our Patreon family for ongoing love and encouragement, and thanks to you for listening :) 

We’re well into the second year of The Working Class Writers Grant now and we are thrilled to announce Recipient #015 is Polly Manning. Polly sent us two texts that both got me right in the gut in different painful ways. One was a quick, sharp stab and a gasp; the other was an uncomfortable hug from the behind that got tighter and tighter until I felt sad and sick. Acute, emotional, affecting and bleak. I read both texts back to back and I immediately wanted to read more -  and that’s how I knew we’d found our next recipient.

Bio:

Polly Manning is a Welsh writer, and currently lives in the upper Swansea Valley in south Wales. Whilst she has worked in screenwriting and film direction, her main interest is in prose fiction - in particular, the short story. Her stories focus on life in rural and de-industrialised parts of Wales, with a particular interest in the ways in which young people find subversive meaning within these often 'bleak' realities. She is disinterested in the sentimental depiction of Wales as a mystical, Celtic wilderness detached from the miseries of capitalist neoliberalism, preferring to write stories about the people that actually live there. She is a Welsh-speaker, and currently working on a collection of short stories.

Links below if you want to read her work:

Read: Spider

You can find Polly on Instagram and Twitter

If you’re a working class writer, and would like to find out more info about our Writers Grant, pls visit the Writers Grant page on our webby for the FAQs and submission info! Thank you to Creative Debuts for funding the grant and allowing us to support working class writers in this way :)

This week's text is a review of Sutapa Biswas's show: Lumen at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge. 

It's also a lil bit different to my normal texts, bc it's written as an audio tour. So you can listen to me guide you round in person, or listen on an imagined art date, IRL or art guided meditation. 

read the text here: thewhitepube.com/sutapabiswas

This week’s review is The Forgotten City, a game about a place where nobody is allowed to sin or everybody will turn into gold statues - or so they say. It is a game I didn’t know was a horror game until I felt my body tremble. And that’s a good thing. I have really come to love this genre so much. So I’m sharing this review today in honour of Halloween. Maybe you’re looking for something to play or maybe you just want to hear its spooky tale, either way I hope you enjoy the review.

The written version is available on https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/the-forgotten-city

And thank you to our Patreon fam for supporting!!!! 

This week's text on the White Pube is a review of 3 for 1 at Camden Art Centre: Adam Farah, Phoebe Collings-James & Zeinab Saleh.

tl;dr (& SPOILER): I think the decision to put on 3 separate solo shows, in the space that'd normally contain 1 solo show, at the same time is racialised. 

Read it here: thewhitepube.com/3for1camdenart

This week's review is on BLACKTRANSSEA, the new game by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. It is currently on show at QUAD in Derby as part of Danielle's first solo exhibition. If you can't get to Derby, like me, then the game is available to play online at blacktranssea.com. This review is about writing to remember, colonisation, mother nature, games in exhibitions, and new endings for us all. 

The written version is available here + as always, thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting The White Pube I love you

Thanks for listening 

This week's text is a review of the 2021 Turner Prize! We've never reviewed the Turner Prize before, and i don't know why?!? it's such a Moment™️. But this year, there has been so much noise about all the nominees being collectives, and I went up to the Herbert on a press trip to go have a look round with the rest of the press pack - felt like i literally HAD to review it lmao. SO here it is, a long chunky extended cut: mini reviews of the work being presented, as well as a run down of the wider TP vibe. Also, a soft proposition for the Turner Prize to be more like the X Factor, that i'm only HALF joking about. 

If you want to read the text version of this, please visit: thewhitepube.com/turnerprize2021

i also mention a few other text, linked here: 

BOSS's statement about being nominated

Juliet Jacques' article for Frieze, about what this year’s Turner Prize tells us about the arts after a decade of austerity.

Morgan Quaintance's eternally relevant essay, Teleology & the Turner Prize or: Utility, the New conservatism

The only reason The White Pube can still exist is because some of our readers choose to support us each month on Patreon. If you wana, you can chip in a couple £s a month, if not no worries!!!!

Happy weekend! & enjoy!!! :) 

If you want to see the written version of this, or the photos I took while I was running away, find both here; if you want to support twp and join our discord, info here; and if you want us to be on a best seller list because that would be quite funny, pre-order our book Poor Artists here 💋

This week’s review is Kena: Bridge of Spirits, the recently released game from Ember Lab about a young spirit guide who helps troubled spirits move on. It looks great, gameplay is solid, but the story just did not land. For people who want a big combat challenge, go for it. But for those who play games searching for magical, dramatic stories, I don’t know if this one quite works.

Written version: thewhitepube.com/kena-bridge-of-spirits

Thank you to our Patreon fam for supporting the weekly writing on The White Pube

&&& thank you to Ember Lab for sending a copy of this game for review. And the stickers. Thank you for sending me stickers.

This week's text on The White Pube, is a review of a film! Manifesto, by Ane Hjort Guttu, which is aw a few weeks ago at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. This text is also a cheeky excuse to think a bit about art schools, and especially, my time at CSM (which is quite a while ago now bc i am literally geriatric).

You can read the review here: thewhitepube.com/manifesto-anehjortguttu

The only reason The White Pube can still exist is because some of our readers choose to support us each month on Patreon. If you wana, you can chip in a couple £s a month, if not no worries!!!! 

ok that's all, love u have a great weekend n see u in 2 weeks xoxox

This week's review is No Longer Home, a small game about two people who have just finished an art degree and are now getting ready to pack up their flat and leave London. Now, I KNOW this premise is relatable for at least 50% of our audience, lmao, I see the google analytics and I know. But if it's not, this text is mostly just about remembering the weird things that happen in our lives, and trying to answer the question, 'what form should remembering take?' This game is available on Mac and PC currently but is about to be released on Switch and Xbox One in October. 

The written version is here & as always, thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting these weekly texts! 

We’re entering the SECOND year of The White Pube Writers Grant if you can believe it. We are very pleased to announce that the 13th recipient is fellow art critic Andy Grace Hayes. Writing from Glasgow, his substack Another Gay Handout brings together exhibition reviews, book reviews, and essays on aesthetics and the climate. We haven’t been able to run around Scotland’s many different art scenes in a long, long time but reading Andy’s reviews felt like the light, piercing criticism and gossip that comes of visiting exhibitions with clever friends. We very much support that, and we’re subscribed to the mailing list so looking forward to reading more. We hope you enjoy it too!

Bio: Andy Grace Hayes is a Scottish writer living in Glasgow. He writes exhibition reviews and records video essays that engage with local work, queer art, terrible art, and mass media. Hayes writes to be confrontational and to flirt. He aims to create an archive of gossip, institutional criticism, and off-the-cuff diatribes. 

You can find links to Andy’s work on the Writers Grant page: both the two text reviews that he reads in this podcast ep (Carpeted Bathroom, an Exhibition Review of ‘Sex Club’ AND! A Dumpster Fire and ‘Dampbusters’) as well as 2 video essays: Pleasure Park and the Legacy of Tom of Finland, and The Aesthetics of Calm: Whitecubing in the White Cube. You can also find Andy on Twitter & Instagram.

If you’re a working class writer, and would like to find out more info about our Writers Grant, pls visit the Writers Grant page on our webby for the FAQs and submission info! Thank you to Creative Debuts for funding the grant and allowing us to support working class writers in this way :)

This week's text is a review of an exhibition that doesn't exist. 

'Gab suggested I write a review of a fictional exhibition, one that doesn’t actually exist. And the idea grabbed me, because in writing about something that doesn’t exist, I thought I could burrow through and write about something that should.'

read the text here: thewhitepube.com/doesnt-exist

This week’s review is Red Dead Redemption 2, the 2018 game from Rockstar. I think about escaping into fiction and creating fiction as a way to escape. Part fan-fiction, part review. Part player, part creator. The text is spoiler-free so if you haven’t ever played the game (or maybe especially if you happen to be halfway through), I hope you enjoy listening.

You can find the written version here & thank you to our Patreon gang for all of your support. It really means the world.

This week's text on The White Pube is a review of Ain Bailey's show, Version, at Wysing Arts Centre over in Cambridge. In this review, I think about about generosity, overlap, and liquid, as well as ~vibey~ descriptions of sound works. 

You can read the text version of this here: thewhitepube.com/ain-version

The White Pube is proud to be reader supported on Patreon! If you would like more info about why or how, or even to chip in with the support and sign up to become our patron like in olden times, you can do so here: patreon.com/thewhitepube

This week's text is about the fact I've got the ick for Love Island itself. Season 7 has been rough but the roughness didn't begin here. I'm done with this show. I can't be dealing. 

Listen on this podcast or find the written version on The White Pube here. Thank you to our Patreon supporters for enabling this very specifically mad kind of writing. We love you a lot. 

Happy Sunday! This week's text on the White Pube is a review of the London spectacle dubbed 'a £2million SLAG HEAP'!!! it's: Marble Arch Mound!!!

This is also a text where i talk about public art after 11 years of consecutive Conservative governments, increasing reliance on private funding, and the wider corporatisation of the arts. i try to be an alien archaeologist from the future, and ask: if the Marble Arch Mound is a monument, what is it a monument to? and what does it tell us about the culture and people that made it? 

if you want to read the full text, go to thewhitepube.com/mound

The White Pube is proud to be reader supported on Patreon! If you would like more info about why or how, or even to chip in with the support and sign up to become our patron like in olden times, you can do so here: patreon.com/thewhitepube

I watched all 11 seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and now this funny little review exists. It's a text about chronic illness, reality TV, and finding relief in other people's issues. Hope you enjoy! The written version of this text is available on our website here > https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/rhobh < and as always, thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping The White Pube in motion. We literally couldn't do it without you, especially while I am so out of it with Long Covid. If you too want to support TWP on Patreon, head here 💜 

This week's text is a story about a woman called Jane who wants to unlock her inner creative potential, through a boozy painting workshop.

read the text version here: thewhitepube.co.uk/caterpillar-memories

& thank you, as always, to our friends on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our support page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠for more info about how you can do that :)

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This week's text is a review! of Camara Taylor's <a rant! a reel!> at Cubitt. It's the third show in Languid Hands' ongoing curatorial fellowship program, called <No Real Closure>.

You can read the text version of this review here: thewhitepube.com/arant-areel

Coinciding with this show,, Camara is also premiering a film, <holus-bolus>, online at Edinburgh Art Festival. It's available until 29th August. 

'As entry to the exhibition is free, and many of us have a renewed commitment to mutual aid, we ask those that are able to donate any amount, big or small, to Glasgow-based MORE (Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment), a group of migrants and members of the community campaigning for the right to work, study, good housing and to be treated with dignity. Donate to their Climate Justice Is Migrant Justice fundraiser here.'

^^ The handout mentions this, and since we get a few new patrons every sunday, if you were considering signing up to our Patreon this month, pls consider putting it off for a month n donating to MORE's Climate justice fundraiser instead :)

This week's text is a review of 54 The Gate, an online show that is also a game, on Arcadia Missa's Open Office. it is also a text about how i just want art to be FUN, and why i think that's important, n worth considering when making an exhibition - especially right now!

you can read the text here: thewhitepube.com/54thegate

This week’s review is 'We Dwell in Possibility,' the new game by Robert Yang and Eleanor Davis commissioned for this year’s Manchester International Festival. I write about pandemic horniness, public sex, Hieronymus Bosch and lockdown lifting. Not suitable for younger listeners. 

You can find the written version of this review here; and you can play the game for free here.

Thank you for listening & thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting!!! 🌸 

Announcing the 11th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant: Dora Maludi!

Dora sent over a collection of poems, and they really stood out and grabbed us. Dora’s poems are like small concentrated squares full of infinite detail. She writes about writing; the writing process like vomiting. She describes scars like borders. She writes like she is speaking to someone over your shoulder. And she summons whole scenes out of sketches to create these acute and honest atmospheres. We’re so glad we can support Dora through this grant, and we hope you find a similar joy in her work too! And thank you to Creative Debuts for providing the funding that allows us to offer this grant!

Bio: Dora Maludi is a fine artist and poet from London. Her practice is centred around exploring the relationship between form, language and landscape through the means of sound, video, text and movement. Anti poetry, surrealist poetry and Dada techniques inform her writing style, with the notion of rejecting traditional forms being a thorough line in her artistic endeavours. Alongside this, she is currently working on a soundscape series exploring the theme of endings and writing poems towards her first collection.

Find Dora’s Soundscapes on Bandcamp here  

You can also find Dora on Instagram here 

Read Dora's poems on the Writers Grant page

You can find out more about the Writers Grant here 

This week's review is Ghost of Tsushima, the 2020 video game about a Mongol invasion on the island of Tsushima set in the 13th century. Did I like it? Did I dislike it? The answer is no to both of those questions and I spend this text trying to figure out why. I also wonder: what does it mean when a violent story is just so beautiful? Can you be afraid of a villain you do not know? And how do you fight for something you don't quite care about?

The written version of this text can be found on our website here. Thank you for listening & thank you especially to our Patreon supporters. You are the best.

This week’s text is about the final walk in Death Stranding, the 2019 game by Kojima Productions. Back in November, I wrote a spoiler-free review that convinced a tonne of you to play it. Somebody even bought a whole PS4 off the back of that text. I return to the game now to write about its ending and to think about how emotion is achieved through narrative structure, character development, song, gameplay and loss of control. This text is chunky. I have not held back in any way. It took weeks to put together and it is the longest thing I have written in a very long time. But I dunno, it feels warranted. Again, someone bought a PS4! I get an email every other week off strangers thanking me for introducing them to the game! I am becoming a Death Stranding academic. Put me on Mastermind, I’m ready.

The written version of this text is available on thewhitepube.com/death-stranding-final-walk but this audio recording is fun because it features clips from BB’s Theme, a song by Ludvig Forssell, performed by Jenny Plant, (c) Sony Entertainment. Enjoy!

This week's text is a review of ~Salmon: A Red Herring~, the Art Now show by Cooking Sections, at Tate Britain. 

Talking about my split feelings; between being a hardline cynic and wanting to be a Good Vibes Person, n how i liked this show against my will. 

Read the text here: thewhitepube.com/cookingsections

This week's text is an essay called: Boycott Zabludowicz. 

Since 2014, there has been a call to boycott the Zabludowicz Collection, a gallery in London that is owned and funded by Zabludowicz Art Trust, and its associated institutions: Daata Editions and Times Square Space. The Zabludowicz Art Trust is financially associated with companies that have dealt arms to Israel's military, invested in property in Occupied Palestine, and that provide maintenance and services to the Israeli Airforce.

In this essay, I tell you why the boycott exists, why it is important and impactful, I tell you how the Zabludowicz Collection goes about operating despite the boycott, and then I explain some nitty-gritty practicalities about the boycott as #praxis. If you’re ready to dismiss this because you already know where you stand: just hear me out. I’ll even run you through both sides.

If you want to sign the BDZ boycott, and pledge to refuse your work, labour and the sale of your artwork to the Zabludowicz Art Trust, or visit any of its institutions, you can do so via this form.

For more information, please visit the BDZ website.

You can read the text version of this essay here: thewhitepube.com/bdz where you'll be able to find all the important links mentioned in the text. 

Normally, at the bottom of each text, we have a link to our Patreon. But if after this text, please consider donating the money you'd give to us  directly to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians).

We’re so pleased to announce, the 10th recipient of the Writers Grant has been given to Natalie Dunning. This feels like a really special and emotional moment, not just because this is the 10th grant to go out(!), but because I feel such an affinity with Natalie’s writing. Her text ‘Why I sometimes like my chronic pain’ made me reflect on my relationship with long covid — something I am struggling with, but something that means I no longer sweat the small stuff precisely because of that struggle. Another text, ‘Hiking the uncanny valleys of Red Dead Redemption 2,’ made me fall in love all over again with the vast experiences we can have in video game spaces; and how vital and wonderful access to adventure can feel in a sick body. She writes through these subjects with such clarity - her tone is raw and optimistic, and basically I have been thinking about her texts ever since she sent them our way. We’re so glad we can support Natalie through this grant, and we hope you find a similar joy in her work too.

Bio:

Natalie Dunning is a writer and designer from Manchester. Art school led her to work in bars, schools and temp agencies. A health scare led her to write about the things that she cares about; health, food and culture. Her recent work has focused on alternative perspectives of chronic pain, gaming and pain management. She is currently writing about the joys of chicken splits, dystopian wellness cafes and cooking with fire. 

Links below if you want to read her work, listen to it, or follow Natalie online:

• Read Hiking the uncanny valleys of Red Dead Redemption 2
  
• Read Why I sometimes like my chronic pain
  
• Find Natalie’s website here
  
• You can also find Natalie on Twitter and Instagram

You can find out more about the Writers Grant here

this week's text is a book review (!!!) of Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs! 

read the text here

I've secretly been in France trying out a new residency at a place called The Mill. You can find the written version of this text on our website where there are also beautiful pictures I took because I am the world's greatest photographer enjoy, and as always, pre-order our book POOR ARTISTS if you want! it's coming out October 3rd so if you do it now you'll forget and then a lovely present will come through the door and you'll be like wow I'm so nice to myself

This week I've written about The Last of Us Part II and doing things in video games you don't want to do. I don't know if this is necessarily a review, it's more just a text about the thing. Trying out something newwww. As always, the written version of this is on our website: thewhitepube.com/the-last-of-us & thank you very much for listening.

This week's text is a review! of Walter Price's show, Pearl Lines at Camden Art Centre. This is the first show I've seen in person since last Autumn, and honestly i spent the last half of this text trying to figure out why galleries feel weird now. 

You can read the text here, and peep some pics of it too. enjoy the rest of ur sunday n the long weekend! 

We’re so pleased to announce, the 9th recipient of the Writers Grant has been given to Natalie Tan. Natalie has a bi-weekly newsletter called Simmer Down, that reflects on food and memory, and she sent us some back issues (links below). After we started the /food page on our website last year, we've been hoping to be able to support somebody else's writing around the subject & then Natalie’s work came along. It is so sensitive, descriptive, atmospheric and personable. The writing feels all visibly based in the political and the historical too, which we found incredible value and energy in. It's really enjoyable writing to read, as both writers and wannabe food-eggheads ourselves. So we are really excited to be able to support Natalie and Simmer Down, and we hope you find the same joy in her work

Bio:

Natalie Tan is a cultural practitioner and writer based in London. Expressed with an unbridled passion influenced by the forever-classic emo tracks of the 2000s, she examines maladaptive wistfulness, traditions formed from migration, and the impact of colonialism on Hong Kong and its diaspora. She is the author of Simmer Down, an ongoing, bi-weekly reflection on food and memory, and is currently writing her first play on family, loss, and Hong Kong as part of Bush Theatre’s West London Playwrights’ Group. Her work has been included in diaCRITICS, Radio Slumber, and the Breakfast B Reading Series.

Links below if you want to read her work, listen to it, or follow Natalie online:

• Read Strawberry Jam-Tinted Glasses
• Read On the Reliability of Dumplings
• Read through the rest of the Simmer Down archive
• You can find Natalie on Twitter and Instagram

You can find out more about the Writers Grant here