Review | Fabulosa! The Story of Britain’s Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker
Fabulosa! The Story of Britain’s Secret Gay Language, Paul Baker, Reaktion Books, 2019, pp. 320, £15.99 (Hardcover) Polari is a…
Review | Edvard Munch: Love and Angst at the British Museum
Known for the haunting anguish of The Scream, Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch produced less notorious pieces with a…
Interview | Scott Eaton | Artist+AI
A truly ground-breaking Artificial Intelligence art exhibition has recently been on display at Somerset House. Entitled Artist+AI: Figures & Form in…
Spotlight IV: Penned in the Margins
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
Review | Four Quartets at the Barbican
T. S. Eliot was famously wary about artistic interpretations of his poems. In a letter in 1947 to Dale E.…
Fiction | Down the Marina by Daniel Kramb
Daniel Kramb Down the Marina At the city’s edge, half way into the marina, Ana-Maria sits on top of her…
Review | Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman by Charles Williams
Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman By Charles Williams Biteback Publishing, £25 In the age of the internet it is…
Archive | Coming to London IX by Christopher Isherwood
The following piece was first published in The London Magazine August 1956 Volume 3 No. 8 as “Coming to London…
Fiction | In Search of Scott by Will Kitson
Will Kitson In Search of Scott I remember the first time I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work. I was 20…
Review | Stanley Kubrick at The Design Museum
Bringing iconic films to the main screen, from Clockwork Orange to The Shining, Stanley Kubrick has contributed significantly to 20th…
Fiction | Are There More People Alive Than Dead? by Laurane Marchive
Laurane Marchive Are There More People Alive Than Dead? The phone rings. 5am. It’s your boyfriend. He is in New…
Review | Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt
Vivian, Christina Hesselholdt, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019, pp.192, £12.99 (paperback) “What I produce is so good that if I start showing…
Review | Tales of Two Londons: Stories From A Fractured City
Tales of Two Londons: Stories From A Fractured City, edited by Claire Armitstead, Arcadia Books, 2019, £9.99 It’s Saturday morning…
Review | Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Salt Slow, Julia Armfield, Pan Macmillan, 2019, pp.208, £12.99 (hardback) This electric, enthralling collection of short stories from Julia Armfield…
Review | A Map Towards Fluency & A Few Interiors
A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly, Carcanet Press, 2019, pp.112, £8.99 A Few Interiors, Rowland Bagnell, Carcanet Press, 2019, pp.64,…
Review | Days in the Caucasus by Banine & Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
Days in the Caucasus, Banine (translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova), Pushkin Press, 2019, pp. 288 (hardback) Crossing, Pajtim Statovci (translated by…
Kahani Near Sloane Square…Oh Those Lamb Chops!
I have been to expansive Sikh restaurants in Southall and frenetic Pakistani grills in Whitechapel. I once had a very…
Review | Lee Krasner at the Barbican
Lee Krasner’s work was central in the proliferation of abstract expressionism in the United States. A new show at the…
Extract | Tony and Eve by Eve Hall
From the forthcoming memoir by Phil Hall Steinhardt, Tony and Eve. My heroine of very early days was Joan of…
Interview | Clayton Vomero | 3OHA
Kaleidoscopic is one of the words used to describe the work of Clayton Vomero, his narratives finding their flow not…
Interview | Donald Sultan
The acclaimed American figurative painter Donald Sultan currently has his first U.K retrospective at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London. Sultan is 68…
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2019
Update: Submissions for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2019 are now CLOSED! Over the years The London Magazine has been home…
Fiction | Don’t Tell Father by Denisa Vitova
Denisa Vitova Don’t Tell Father —–My mother bought a new dress she didn’t necessarily need but which fit her tall,…
Review | Skylon Deeply Savoury on the South Bank
I hardly ever go across the river to the south side. I cannot stand the man-boys ruckling along on their…
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