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Essay | Down the Rabbit Hole by Helena C. Aeberli

‘Even as we seek to relegate stories of witches, wonders and monsters to an absurd and irrational past, we’re drawn to retelling and retelling them.’

Helena C. Aeberli on Mary Toft, TikTok and ‘micro-histories’.

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Essay | Staying Mute by Sara Ahmad

‘If a Brazilian electrician, pursued by the police as a result of a series of blunders, can be shot in cold blood in front of the British public – how thin is the membrane separating victim and terrorist?’

Sarah Ahmad on the 7/7 bombings, 20 years on.

Etching of a fox, like the one Meg rears in the story.

Fiction | Duchess by Gráinne O’Hare

‘When I passed the baby to her to hold, she did so with the bored detachment of a taxi driver holding a name card at an airport.’

New short fiction by Gráinne O’Hare.

The London Magazine tote bag and the new issue: April / May 2025

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With the new issue and tote bag bundle, save 20% on the cost of our April / May 2025 issue and the bespoke TLM tote. The latest issue includes poetry by Ian Duhig and Dane Holt, short fiction by Picador debut novelist Gráinne O’Hare and essays on Joseph Conrad, Hisham Matar and the 7/7 London bombings.  The London Magazine tote…

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Podcast | Leo Robson

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‘One of the things that the novel is about is different forms of chronology that we mark things by.’

Leo Robson on The London Magazine Podcast.

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Podcast | Mark Bowles

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‘To exaggerate something is like putting a magnifying glass on it. You exaggerate your rage, you exaggerate your love, and you can see it more clearly.’

Mark Bowles on corporate jargon, his love of espresso and whether or not his book can be called an anti-English novel.

Podcast | Jeremy Leslie

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‘The phrase “the end of print” is a sales tool for the digital world.’

On The London Magazine Podcast, Jeremy Leslie discusses magCulture, his favourite magazines and why ‘end of print’ narratives are nonsense.

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