‘When you are unhappy wherever you go, the common denominator is you, Teddy’s ex-girlfriend told him, with a cruelty so uncharacteristic as to be true.’
New fiction by Sheila Armstrong.
Review | The Truth about My Mother by Lucy Thynne
‘In A Woman’s Story, Ernaux more than fills de Beauvoir’s feminist and existentialist shoes. And as the family’s ‘archivist’, she is every bit the dutiful daughter.’
Lucy Thynne on Annie Ernaux’s A Woman’s Story.
Essay | Frock Consciousness by Katie Tobin
‘So what is the power of literary fashion, then? For me it lies in its virtuality, that imaginary quality of the ekphrastic, something so beautiful that it cannot exist in real life as we know it on the page. That virtuality also ties into the codification of clothing, and how it might suggest something about its wearer without saying as much.’
Katie Tobin on the Bloomsbury Group and fashion.
Fiction | Strange Day in Berlin by Gráinne O’Hare
‘I knew that the building had been turned into a block of luxury condos and bore no internal resemblance to the halls my favourite writers would have walked; and I knew it hardly mattered either way, that I could have curled up in Sylvia Plath’s unwashed sheets and it wouldn’t make me a better writer.’
New fiction by Gráinne O’Hare.
Review | In the Countryside Everyone Knows Your Business by Guy Stagg
‘Seen from the other side of the Irish Sea, this looks like a courageous act, and one to wish for more often in English fiction.’
Guy Stagg reviews Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses.
Fiction | Nothing Like the Old Masters by Jimin Kang
‘I have been searching for the word to describe the feeling of wanting big things, a hunger that grows and surpasses what I have inherited.’
New fiction by Jimin Kang.
Essay | The Song of Decline: Aspects of Contemporary Latvian Poetry by Ivars Šteinbergs
‘In other words, there is a love that waits, and it has been and is being published in Latvia – as well as elsewhere – right now, before our eyes.’
Ivars Šteinbergs on Latvian poetry.
Fiction | Falling by Hadley Franklin
‘She was going to have a large life, an important life. She could feel it.’
Fiction by Hadley Franklin, winner of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2023.
Poetry | It’s About Time by Michael Bazzett
‘I’d rather let roots slip between my ribs / and knit these bones into the black soil / to keep them still and ease what restlessness/ might remain.’
New poetry by Michael Bazzett.
Poetry | Even My Portraitist by Sylee Gore
‘Like clouds, I take my colour from the air.’
New poetry from Sylee Gore.
Essay | For the Sake of a Few Trees by Pacifica Goddard
Pacifica Goddard on Hetch Hetchy & The Greatest Good
Review | World Rifting by Patrick Cash
Patrick Cash reviews Isabel Waidner’s ‘Corey Fah Does Social Mobility’ and Alison Rumfitt’s ‘Brainwyrms’
Review | Light Verse by Hugh Foley
Hugh Foley reviews Ben Lerner’s ‘The Lights’ and Timothy Donnelly’s ‘Chariot’
Essay | Duelling Quills by Fernando Sdrigotti
Fernando Sdrigotti Duelling Quills . . You must have heard about The London Magazine – you are after all holding…
Review | Love, Between Surrender and Confrontation by Mai Serhan
Mai Serhan Love, Between Surrender and Confrontation . We Call to the Eye & The Night: Love Poems by Writers…
Essay | We Must Cultivate Our Garden: Can Eco Art Change How We Treat the World? by Frances Forbes-Carbines
Frances Forbes-Carbines We Must Cultivate Our Garden: Can Eco Art Change How We Treat the World? . Argumentative Pangloss just…
Fiction | Four Night Seas by Niamh Mac Cabe
Niamh Mac Cabe Four Night Seas . (& An Admission of Failure) . Winner of The London Magazine Short Story…
Essay | Fight or Flight by Daisy Sainsbury
Daisy Sainsbury Fight or Flight . . When I was a child, my dad used to tell a funny story…
Essay | Shelf Haunting by Jeremy Wikeley
Jeremy Wikeley Shelf Haunting . . Before the pandemic, when coincidences still happened, I was haunted by the poet Gavin…
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Fiction | Smoking by Gary Grace
Gary Grace Smoking . . With a long drag off the smoke, Sean squeezed the butt between his crusted yellow…
Review | Ghost Writer: On the Photographic Materials of W. G. Sebald by Rowland Bagnall
Rowland Bagnall Ghost Writer: On the Photographic Materials of W. G. Sebald . Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G.…
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