Essay | Defining my Jewish Identity by Leonard Quart
I grew up in the 1940s and ’50s when the city’s ethnic groups were more clearly divided and a lingering…
Review | Arkady by Patrick Langley
Patrick Langley’s Arkady is the story of two brothers, Jackson and Frank, who are drifting. They explore the city, a…
Poetry | Waking Under the Walnut Street Bridge by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Mara Adamitz Scrupe Waking Under the Walnut Street Bridge let me persist but not divide …
Essay Competition 2017
This competition is now closed. As the oldest literary and arts review in the UK, The London Magazine has a long…
The Threepenny Opera
If you put on a production of Romeo and Juliet in Verona, how much does anyone care that the action…
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone
Europe is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Essay | John Scott’s The London Magazine by Matthew Scott
The Greek author Lucian tells of a lusty, young aristocrat who fell for a statue of Aphrodite and, willing it to be real, attempted to defile it. He had only the experience of other boys to go on and fell short when it came to the anatomy of women; congress was a hopeless failure and he hurled himself to his death […]
Shining Shoes by Nausheen Eusuf
Weekends, growing up, I’d watch my father as he sat on a low stool in the veranda surrounded by half…
A Discovery in the Woods by Graham Greene
I The village lay among the great red rocks about a thousand feet up and five miles from the sea,…
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck
The idea behind ‘Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck’ is an exciting one, if a little difficult to communicate in…
The Lake by Ted Hughes
Better disguised than the leaf-insect, A sort of subtler armadillo, The lake turns with me as I walk. Snuffles at…
Pearl by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage’s new translation of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl follows his energetic 2008 translation of the same anonymous poet’s Sir…
Pearl by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage’s new translation of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl follows his energetic 2008 translation of the same anonymous poet’s Sir…
Forward Prizes for Poetry 2016: Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection – Shortlist
This year’s contenders for the Felix Dennis Prize represent an exciting new generation of poets emerging beyond the bounds of…
No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort
No Map Could Show Them, Mort’s second collection, explores the narratives of Victorian and modern women –mountaineers, campaigners, runners –…
Questions Concerning Aristotle’s Tomb by Manash Bhattacharjee
An archaeologist in Greece unearths Aristotle’s Tomb; others dispute the evidence. If Aristotle’s ideas are consulted, the archaeologist Needs to…
Four Watercolours by Sudeep Sen
The London Magazine has been celebrating the life of our former editor, Alan Ross. An important figure in the literary…
Poetry Prize | An interview with Rebecca Perry
Ahead of our Poetry Prize, which closes 30th June, we spoke to judge Rebecca Perry about prizes, publication and what she’ll…
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
What is ‘home’? A person? A place? A feeling of belonging? These are the questions that run through Barney Norris’s…
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
What is ‘home’? A person? A place? A feeling of belonging? These are the questions that run through Barney Norris’s…
Painting with Light
There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in which the odious Boy Mulcaster interrogates Charles Ryder, painter and…
Fiction | Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver Cathedral . . This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to…
Home from Greece by Robert Selby
Above whitewashed, tabby-haunted Kamari, I wearied of the incessant inversions in Pope’s Homer, and left my self-improvement’s cooling terrace to…
What You Call Your ‘Winter Mode’ by Patri Wright
On the wicker chair I wait for the duvet’s rise: you’re just a mound, breath, as I worry over why,…
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