Social Contract by Rachel Willems
The politeness, not leaving any butter in the jam, or jam in the butter, or shoes in the hall. Not…
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
The High Mountains of Portugal is not a traditional novel but instead a set of three interconnected tales that take…
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing | The Young Vic
Aoife Duffin reprises her one-woman performance for the production’s London début. In Annie Ryan’s adaptation of Eimear McBride’s 2013 novel,…
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2016 | Judges
The London Magazine’s annual Poetry Prize seeks out new writers whose work is adventurous, innovative and surprising in both form and…
The Catch by Fiona Sampson
The cover image of Fiona Sampson’s seventh collection is bright and strange. Taken from photographer Charles Frèger’s Wilder Mann series…
The Catch by Fiona Sampson
The cover image of Fiona Sampson’s seventh collection is bright and strange. Taken from photographer Charles Frèger’s Wilder Mann series…
Caries by Fiona Sampson
Little hole little well of dark staining the lacquer of my tooth little confessor coming close and coming close why…
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
In keeping with the current vogue for entwining fact and fiction, Julian Barnes’s latest novel is a fictionalised account of…
My London by Tristram Fane Saunders
Home is a box on Coppermill Lane, caught in the crosshairs of Walthamstow High Street and Blackhorse Road. It’s a…
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
The American West has always been home to grifters and thieves, dreamers and doers. It has been a destination for…
Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Hogarth Shakespeare has commissioned a series of novels from high-profile authors. The…
Human Acts by Han Kang
Buried in the middle of Han Kang’s Human Acts is a play that, like Kang’s book, dramatises the democratic uprisings…
UPDATE: Short Story Competition 2015
We know all our entrants have been waiting for news on the 2015 Short Story Competition and we’re excited to…
Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson
Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Hogarth Shakespeare has commissioned a…
Human Acts by Han Kang
Buried in the middle of Han Kang’s Human Acts is a play that, like Kang’s book, dramatises the democratic uprisings…
Home by Kate Miller
Even a London house must have its swifts, the roof should be a beacon in the western light to guide…
Several Deer by Adam Crothers
Several Deer by Adam Crothers On the first page of Several Deer, the debut collection from the Northern Irish poet…
This Living and Immortal Thing by Austin Duffy
This Living and Immortal Thing by Austin Duffy The somewhat neo-Yeatsian, almost mawkish-sounding title chosen for Austin Duffy’s first novel is…
We Wait for Poets by Manash Bhattacharjee
[In solidarity with Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh] prophets have retired so do not wait for yours to come to you…
Public Library by Ali Smith
It seems somehow wrong that I now ‘own’ my copy of Public Library, Ali Smith’s fifth collection of short stories.…
‘hypnotic delight’: Macbeth at the Young Vic
Three lunatic dollies jerk and prance in dub-step; they suck their fingers (or are they Raspberry Mivvis?), they entice and…
The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie
Walking and climbing in a landscape of clifftops, glens, summits and strands, the speaker in Kathleen Jamie’s subtle and assured…
The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie
Walking and climbing in a landscape of clifftops, glens, summits and strands, the speaker in Kathleen Jamie’s subtle and assured…
Poetry | A Dream by John Keats
This sonnet was written in February 1819. Keats copies it into a letter sent to his brother and sister-in-law, George…
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