Feature | Inside Dennis Severs’ House
I arrive outside the black wooden door of Dennis Severs’ House, knock gently on the door, and wait under the…
News | The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2019
Last night the winners of The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses were announced, with this year’s announcement signalling…
Review | La Forza Del Destino at the Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House has brought together the best cast in the world right now for their new production of…
News | Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019 — The People’s Forest + Interview
The People’s Forest — a literary strand to Waltham Forest’s programme as the first ever London Borough of Culture this…
Review | How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s at Goldsmiths CCA
How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s opens at the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art on the 15th March, showing until…
Review | Diane Arbus & Kader Attia at the Hayward Gallery
From the very conception of artistic expression, artists have engaged with the notion of self and the formation of identity.…
Review | Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears at White Cube
A Fortnight of Tears is a major new exhibition of works by acclaimed British artist Tracey Emin. The show features…
Essay | The Warlock of Love: Revisiting Marc Bolan’s Forgotten Poetry Book Fifty Years On by Joobin Bekhrad
Fifty years ago in March 1969, a rather odd book of verse hit Britain’s bookshelves. Its jacket contained no description…
Archive | Breakfast with Borges by Andrew Graham-Yooll
First published in The London Magazine March 1983, Vol.22, No.12 Jorge Luis Borges entered the Pedmonte Restaurant on Avenida de Mayo with…
Review | Ghislaine Leung at the Chisenhale Gallery
Ghislaine Leung’s Constitution opened at the Chisenhale Gallery on the 25th January 2019. The work explores the notion of withdrawal…
Archive | Review | Evelyn Waugh on Don’t Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
While looking through our archive recently we came across this review by Evelyn Waugh of Nancy Mitford’s novel Don’t Tell…
Review | Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts
Oceania is the first ever major survey of Oceanic art to be held in the UK and is pioneering in its…
Review | Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War at the British Library
Anglo-Saxon England, which lasted from the 5th to the 11th centuries, a span two-hundred years longer than the Roman occupation,…
Archive | Philip Larkin | Two Poems: To The Sea, Annus Mirabilis
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a prolific poet and writer of essays, criticism and reviews during the twentieth century. Described as…
Essay | Shakespeare’s London and the Emergence of the Playhouse
Today, the idea of the theatre can evoke tradition and history, having perhaps one of the longest histories of all…
Staff Picks | The Best of Gothic Fiction
As it’s Halloween, The London Magazine team have been discussing the nature of horror in fiction, and why we are so…
Archive | Essay | Some Recollections of Brâncuși by Eugène Ionesco
The following essay, originally published in the April 1961 edition of The London Magazine, recounts the time by spent by…
Preview | The Turning of The Leaves at Union Chapel
Following last year’s immersive multi-screen audio-visual installation for Remembrance Day, artist and poet Jack Miguel, filmmaker Taz Tron Delix and…
Poetry | Woman by Manash Bhattacharjee
Woman “It’s easy, impossible, hard, worth trying.” ~ Wislawa Szymborska, “Portrait of a Woman” (1976) She is intimately attached To…
Review | Medusa at Sadler’s Wells Theatre
Briony Willis Medusa Through beautifully poetic movements and engaging drama, Jasmin Vardimon has created a unique choreographic voice that enables…
Review | Christian Marclay — The Clock at Tate Modern
Christian Marclay Blavatnik Building, level 2 Tate Modern Until 20th January 2019 “Time present and time past”, as T.S. Eliot…
Review | Limbo by Dan Fox
Following on from his brilliant attack on intellectual conservatism in 2016’s Pretentiousness: Why It Matters, Dan Fox’s new long-form essay Limbo…
Review | The Book of Joan by Lidia Yukavitch | H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker
H(a)ppy, Nicola Barker, William Heinemann, 2017 The Book of Joan, Lidia Yuknavitch, Canongate, 2018 In Nicola Barker’s H(a)ppy and Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book…
Spotlight II: Dostoyevsky Wannabe
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
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