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Poetry | Two Poems by Tim Tim Cheng

‘For the grass to reach the mirror, you cannot be proximate. / It is generous. Both of us, almost missing. / We seem not to go or stay.’

Two poems by Tim Tim Cheng.

Essay | Bagel City by Hugh Foley

‘My job, when talking to my daughter, is to guess what she means, her job is to guess what I mean. We believe things about each other. But how do we have a concept of meaning before we have a whole language? When does an infant have a meaningful sense of meaning?’

Hugh Foley on Taylor Swift, Chat GPT and the broader uses and abuses of meaning.

Review | Formal People by Hester Styles Vickery

‘Conversations around her work centre on her significant success, her Marxist politics, but rarely her technique. Rooney’s critics seem reluctant to talk about her sentences, which is unfortunate, because the sentences are very good.’

Hester Styles Vickery reviews Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo.

Current Issue

Poetry by Tim Tim Cheng, Anthony Lawrence, Deborah Shore, JLM Morton, HLR, Samantha Grenrock, James O’Hara-Knight, Olivia Cowley, Frances Klein, Fiona Sampson, Fae Wolfe and Viviana Fiorentino. Short Fiction by Thomas Dunn, Phoebe Hurst and Kyle Coma Thompson. Featuring: Hugh Foley on Taylor Swift, Chat GPT and the broader uses and abuses of meaning. Adam Heardman on Auerbach and the…

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Guide | London in Five: October 2024

Guides

‘What are you doing forever is how he asked me to marry him. It was three weeks into our togetherness though we had been friends for over a year. How do you go on without that sort of love?’

The London Magazine’s guide to five of the capital’s best cultural events and shows this October: art, theatre, literature and more.

Archive | The Architecture of London Pubs by Stephen Gardiner

Archive

‘Quite shortly the English pub will be extinct, part of history. The trouble is that the wretched brewers, in their hurry to find a modern equivalent of the traditional interior, neither stop to think nor to find proper architects and designers.’

Stephen Gardiner on the state of that bastion of so-called English cultural activity, the pub.

Interview | Between Anger and Prayer: Camille Ralphs in Conversation

Interviews

‘I think my overwhelming feeling writing that poem and reading it out now is one of ‘trappedness’. Anger at being trapped in the world, in a situation which makes no sense, with faculties that cannot make sense of it. The other question is why?’

Shoshana Kessler speaks to poet and editor, Camille Ralphs.

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.

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