‘The market in femininity being such, how could one hope to see any male foragers? Only old and broken husbands were sometimes to be seen towed towards an Issa store advertising free-port prices.’
Fiction by Graham Greene.
Interview | Ella Walker on Pasolini and punk
‘I’ve always loved reading. One source of inspiration for me is Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, particularly ‘The Wife of Bath’ prologue. I loved her gruesome language and her humour. She’s a very powerful character.’
Katie Tobin speaks to Ella Walker.
Review | Beyond Constructed Film Sets by Sara Quattrocchi Febles
‘Once he’d take the required photographs, he’d move around the set like an angel. No one would see or notice him. He managed to camouflage himself to capture the perfect moment.’
Sara Quattrocchi Febles on Sergio Strizzi at The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.
Archive | America and the Beatles by Ned Rorem
‘The Beatles are good even though everyone knows they’re good, i.e. in spite of those claims of the Under Thirties about their filling a new sociological need like Civil Rights and LSD. Our need for them is neither sociological nor new, but artistic and old, specifically a renewal, a renewal of pleasure.’
Ned Rorem on The Beatles. Originally published in the February 1968 edition of The London Magazine.
Fiction | Medusa of the Roses [Extract] by Navid Sinaki
‘I squeeze an orange to your mouth. You used to boil them to remove the bitterness from their skin. On a dare, you drank the liquid they left behind, all pith, just to impress me.’
New fiction by Navid Sinaki.
Interview | Beverley Bie Brahic on Nostalgia and Home by Victoria Modi-Celda
‘One wonderful thing about translation is that the original poem gives you the shape of the beast: ‘all’ the translator has to do is play with the words.’
Victoria Modi-Celda talks to Beverley Bie Brahic.
Archive | A Letter to Vernon Watkins by Dylan Thomas
‘Now I’m almost afraid of all the once-necessary artifices and obscurities, and can’t, for the life or the death of me, get any real liberation, any diffusion or dilution or anything, into the churning bulk of the words.’
A letter from Dylan Thomas to Vernon Watkins.
Fiction | Love: Eight Definitions by Eamon Doggett
‘She did the work during the daytime: dressing him, washing his hair, and giving him his medicine. Most of that time Adrian can’t collate and discern any linearity, nor can he describe with any material details its happenings.’
New fiction by Eamon Doggett.
Review | Grapes of Wrath by Charlie Taylor
‘Experience is one thing, but facing the cold facts of the world’s material processes is something else.’
Charlie Taylor reviews Munir Hachemi’s Living Things.
Fiction | The Writer by Cheryl Follon
‘People on the street in the daytime come with blurred edges, their faces are grey scribbles in the air.’
New fiction by Cheryl Follon.
Essay | When Speech Was Speech by Kira McPherson
‘Focusing on speech marks alone overlooks what novels can do in their absence. What if ambiguity is the point?’
Kira McPherson on speech marks, or lack thereof.
Essay | Meat Space by Hugh Foley
‘Ultimately, I think, in this moment, the body doesn’t matter. It’s just another thing to upload onto the cloud. Or rather, it matters because it’s the ultimate thing to upload. The realest thing.’
Hugh Foley on bodybuilding influencers.
Fiction | Consultation by Leeor Ohayon
‘He told me to come round, said this time he wanted to watch me with others.’
Fiction by Leeor Ohayon.
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Archive | Cheap in August by Graham Greene
‘The market in femininity being such, how could one hope to see any male foragers? Only old and broken husbands were sometimes to be seen towed towards an Issa store advertising free-port prices.’
Fiction by Graham Greene.
Interview | Ella Walker on Pasolini and punk
‘I’ve always loved reading. One source of inspiration for me is Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, particularly ‘The Wife of Bath’ prologue. I loved her gruesome language and her humour. She’s a very powerful character.’
Katie Tobin speaks to Ella Walker.
Review | Beyond Constructed Film Sets by Sara Quattrocchi Febles
‘Once he’d take the required photographs, he’d move around the set like an angel. No one would see or notice him. He managed to camouflage himself to capture the perfect moment.’
Sara Quattrocchi Febles on Sergio Strizzi at The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.
Archive
The London Magazine has a publication history spanning almost three hundred years, and has featured work by some of the most prominent names in literature, from John Keats to Hilary Mantel. In this curated selection, we share our favourite pieces from the TLM archive.
Archive | Two Poems by Sylvia Plath
‘Inscrutable, / Below shoulders not once / Seen by any man who kept his head, / You defy questions / You defy other godhood.’
Poetry by Sylvia Plath.
Archive | Four Conversations: Philip Larkin by Ian Hamilton
‘Kipling said somewhere that when you can do one thing really well, then do something else. Oscar Wilde said that only mediocrities develop. I just don’t know. I don’t think I want to change: just to become better at what I am.’
Ian Hamilton talks to Philip Larkin.
Archive | Alice by W. G. Shepherd
‘Elsie, who is a medium, clairvoyant and faith-healer, / Believes that my mother came to me / From the other side and used a spiritual force / To keep me warm.’
Poetry by W. G. Shepherd.
Archive | The Who by Angela Carter
Angela Carter The Who From the archive, the following review of rock band The Who by Angela Carter was…
Fiction | Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver Cathedral . . This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to…
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