Review | Normal People by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney’s long-awaited second novel “Normal People” burst onto the scene last month, and has been making waves in the…
Preview | Phoebe Dickinson: Journey Through Landscape at Tessa Packard Showroom
British painter From the 12th of November, BP Portrait Award 2018 nominee Phoebe Dickinson will unveil her new exhibition “Journey…
Essay | ‘Time to Murder and Create’: When Fiction Bleeds into Nonfiction by Mathis Clément
If I were to open by describing my setting as a desk piled high with old issues of The London Magazine, the wine red May 1960 issue face down on top, rust-brown rimmed teacup marking the narrow No Man’s Land between the pile and my laptop, you would assume I were telling the truth. If I were to add that the red reminded me of blood spilled last week in rage and the brown rimmed cup of the plughole down which that blood spiraled, you would assume I was either lying or mad.
Review | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
‘It’s Animals taking revenge on people.’ Big Foot has died. Our narrator introduces us to an alarming situation in an…
Review | The Chameleon by Samuel Fisher
The Chameleon is a book narrated by the soul of a book, which can shape shift between any book that it pleases. Stretching across a time frame that goes from the Black Death of the 13th century to the aftermath of the Cold War in the late twentieth century, it is one of the most unusual love stories that you are likely to read.
Review | Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde at The Barbican
The centrifugal drive behind much of the work featured in the Barbican’s new exhibition Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde is enunciated by Rodin in the first gallery: ‘I express in a loud voice what all artists think. Desire! Desire! What a formidable stimulant.’
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2018 – Winners Announced!
A huge thanks to everyone who entered this year’s poetry prize! We had so many high quality entries this year…
Interview | Momtaza Mehri — Young People’s Laureate for London
Yesterday we spoke to artist and poet Momtaza Mehri, who has recently been announced as Young People’s Laureate for London, who will take over from poet and musician Caleb Femi in the role which was launched by Spread The Word Last Year.
Archive | Poetry | The Wiper by Louis MacNeice
First published in the May 1960 issue of The London Magazine (Volume 7, No. 5).
Through purblind night the wiper
Reaps a swathe of water
Feature | 7 Alternative London Novels
London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in…
Event | New River Press vs The London Magazine at Burley Fisher Books
On Thursday at Burley Fisher Books in East London, The London Magazine will be collaborating on an evening of poetry and spoken word with the poetry publishers New River Press.
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2018
Submissions are now open for The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2018!
The London Magazine has published short stories by some of the most well-respected literary figures over the course of long history, from Jean Rhys to V. S. Pritchett. Our annual Short Story Competition seeks out new voices to join them.
Interview | Roubi L’Roubi | Saatchi Gallery | Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School
An interview with Roubi L’Roubi, co-curator of Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School, a new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.
Essay | Fighting Against Productivity by Anna Aguilar
I recently spent a week in an unremarkable town in South West England. Throughout the day, which I spent alone, I found myself feeling trapped and anxious.
Review | Focus Kazakhstan: Postnomadic Mind
Stepping into Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, originally built in 1890 to power the machinery of industrial London, the similarities between…
Review | This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
Scottish music in 1983 This is Memorial Device, David Keenan, Faber and Faber, February 2017, pp.304, £14.99, (paperback) News of the…
The London Magazine Podcast | Episode 3 | Dr Matthew Green
Welcome to episode 3 of The London Magazine podcast! This month, we spoke to Dr Matthew Green, author of…
Winners Announced! | The London Magazine & Collyer Bristow Award For Debut Fiction
Last night we had a wonderful evening at the Collyer Bristow Gallery in London for the awards ceremony of the…
Interview | Cradeaux Alexander
American video and performance artist Cradeaux Alexander presents a mid-career retrospective this month at Bow Arts, London. Jemima Walter met…
Archive | Memories of Modigliani by Anna Akhmatova
First published in the August 1964 edition of the London Magazine (Vol. 4 No.5) (translated from the Italian text by…
Interview | Richard Hearns
The acclaimed Irish artist Richard Hearns has an upcoming exhibition entitled Journey at Cadogan Contemporary. This will be the artist’s…
Review | Burning Woman by Lucy H. Pearce
Briony Willis Burning Woman Burning Woman, by Lucy H. Pearce, Womancraft Publishing, pp. 240, £10.99 (paperback) Designed to teach, inspire and empower generations…
Event Preview | Kenilworth Arts Festival
An eclectic collection of prize-winning novelists and acclaimed international musicians will come together once again for the third annual Kenilworth…
Archive | Fiction | Silvio by Arturo Vivante
First published in the June 1970 edition of The London Magazine (Vol. 10, No. 3) Like a statue too…
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