‘I mean something closer to: am I a good person? Am I sincere and devout to those things in my life that I ought to be?’
New fiction by Benjamin George Coles.
Poetry | Motif by Luciana Francis
‘I feed the birds / before I feed myself.’
New poetry by Luciana Francis.
Fiction | After Sunlight by Gary Finnegan
‘The few days turned to weeks and years and it was a decade before we spoke about the future, a conversation focused on the past.’
New fiction by Gary Finnegan.
Poetry | Hit me with your rhythm stick by Rachel Burns
‘Dad drinks a pint of Newcastle Brown
feet sticking to the floor,
the room thick with fag smoke.
Dad 70’s cool, beard & sideburns & swagger.’
New poetry by Rachel Burns.
Fiction | Baa by Lilia Salammbô Fetini
‘You grow up in poverty. You are told you are lucky, and that luck is why you are the only child in the family who gets an education. You have a natural sense for numbers, and feel that luck is a question of numbers. It is a question of the number of years separating you and your siblings from the source of luck.’
New fiction by Lilia Salammbô Fetini.
Poetry | If you look closely by Tim Relf
‘everything is muddled, everything is metaphor.’
New poetry by Tim Relf.
Interview | Eva Fàbregas’s forms of desire
Currently showing at the Southbank Centre’s When Forms Come Alive exhibition, we spoke to Eva Fàbregas about her sculptural installations, form, and desire.
Archive | The Death of Socrates by A. E. Housman
‘They passed away into the long eclipse,
Like voices on the wandering breezes blown
Now here – now gone – but whither, all unknown.’
Poetry from A. E. Housman.
Interview | Self Portraits of Unconditional Love in David Tucker: Dad
Currently showing at Gallery 46, we spoke to David Tucker about his fearless paintings and sculptures.
Fiction | People Who Can Love by Sarah Turner
‘I’d heard about the surgery even before Cathy reminded me of it. They’d discussed it on the radio one morning, and I’d half listened as I was making coffee, but it seemed experimental – outlandish, even – and I assumed the idea would flicker, smoke, and then go out, like the time they talked about finding volunteers to go to space forever.’
New fiction by Sarah Turner.
Review | Robert Mapplethorpe: SUBJECT OBJECT IMAGE by Adelaide Ng
‘As a victim of the AIDS pandemic, Mapplethorpe established a foundation in his own name to preserve his legacy of works which continue to incite mixed sentiments in audiences and confront the boundaries of sexual politics and art.’
Adelaide Ng reviews Robert Mapplethorpe: SUBJECT OBJECT IMAGE.
Review | Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto by Adelaide Ng
‘Unmoored by her childhood as an orphan, Chanel was extraordinarily bold, possessing a tenacity and creativity that surpassed the bounds of fashion at the time.’
Adelaide Ng reviews Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto at the V&A.
Review | Intellectual Property by Katrina Nzegwu
‘Whilst approaching the prosaic in terms of length and division, Warmelo’s disregard for grammatical conventions pays homage to, yet disrupts and furthers a poetic legacy.’
Katrina Nzegwu reviews Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s Intellectual Property.
Interview | Martin Lau, winner of TLM Cover Competition 2023, talks alteration, identity, and multicultural London
Martin Lau, winner of TLM Cover Competition 2023, talks alteration, identity, and multicultural London . . . In your artistic…
Review | Diana Copperwhite: ONOMATOPOEIA by Adelaide Ng
The following piece is published as part of our TLM Young Writers series, a dedicated section of The London Magazine‘s website which showcases the…
Interview | How Lubaina Himid’s Lost Threads confronts Bath’s colonial past
Katie Tobin How Lubaina Himid’s Lost Threads confronts Bath’s colonial past Lost Threads at The Holburne Museum, 19 January –…
Review | The Mother & the Weaver by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou The Mother & the Weaver The Mother & The Weaver: Art from the Ursula Hauser Collection at the Foundling…
Essay | The Draft of the Medusa by Andrew Gallix [Extract]
Andrew Gallix The Draft of the Medusa . From Unwords by Andrew Gallix published by Dodo Ink, out 18th January…
Interview | T. S. Eliot Prize nominee Kit Fan on elegy, nostalgia and poetry versus prose
Joana Urtasun T. S. Eliot Prize nominee Kit Fan on elegy, nostalgia and poetry versus prose . The Ink Cloud…
Poetry | Dansette by Nicky Kippax
. Nicky Kippax Dansette . Grandad’s pride and joy, black kit set square in a red box – glossy handle…
Fiction | Noah’s Wife by Katherine Robinson
Katherine Robinson Noah’s Wife . . The day of the flood, wind roared in, carrying the cold of the sea.…
Poetry | Message by Imogen Wade
Imogen Wade Message . . Sometimes we are insects, communicating with each other from opposite ends of a vast yellow…
Poetry | French Lessons by Jessa Brown
Jessa Brown French Lessons . . some of our best talks were in French, imperfect [,] tense, and almost crying…
Fiction | Evil Eye by Elmos Andrews
Elmos Andrews Evil Eye . . Thalia looked at me, askew. It was as if she hadn’t understood me. But…
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