‘When so many bad things have happened to someone, they are automatically a good person. You have to be nice to them. Their misfortune creates a magnetic field of deflection.’
New Fiction by Emily Waugh.
Interview | Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Performed: Leyla Josephine and Michael Pedersen
‘Poetry is always trying to capture the experience of living a human life, which is an impossible task. Poets come close, but of course, always fail. Life is simply too complicated, too individual, too big. But the best poets, in my opinion, are the ones who manage to conjure feeling and keep mystery. And, of course, sprinkle in some humour to not take the whole thing too seriously.’
The third in our Forward Prize for Poetry interview series, Leyla Josephine and Michael Pedersen.
Interview | Forward Prize for Best Collection: Fady Joudah and Sarah Wimbush
‘The Palestinian people have been dealing with variable, accelerating modes of their erasure and absenting in English for nearly a century now. I had to write this book.’
The second in our Forward Prizes for Poetry interview series, Fady Joudah and Sarah Wimbush speak to each other about their collections, […] and STRIKE.
Poetry | Of the Death of Brutus by Graham Allison
‘No sudden catastrophe; witness / years of crumbling stone, / rotting libraries, addled brains.’
New poetry by Graham Allison.
Archive | A Dying Breed by Hilary Mantel
‘Like many nuns, she was a great talker; a chatterbox, she would have said. It was important, she had always told me, to keep cheerful in any adversity; the platitudes that sustained her had curiously little to do with any religion.’
Short fiction by Hilary Mantel.
Review | The Quest for Satisfaction by Lee Hatsumi Mayer
‘Satisfaction, the novel suggests, is commingled: it is either heightened or diluted by the emotions of those around you.’
Lee Hatsumi Mayer reviews Kathy Wang’s The Satisfaction Cafe.
Fiction | Medusa of the Roses [Extract] by Navid Sinaki
‘I squeeze an orange to your mouth. You used to boil them to remove the bitterness from their skin. On a dare, you drank the liquid they left behind, all pith, just to impress me.’
New fiction by Navid Sinaki.
Review | Dreamland Laid Bare by Miracle Romano
‘In this chaotic admixture of miserable players, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between aggressor and victim. This leads to the chilling thought that when injustice is empowered and left unchecked, corruption becomes a cycle.’
Miracle Romano reviews Ronaldo Soledad Vivo Jr.’s The Power Above Us All.
Fiction | Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal
‘It had been an early education, Nathu thought, in the fact that all history was historical fiction. A story had a longer life than a fact.’
An extract from Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal.
Podcast | Claire Carroll
Claire Carroll writes experimental fiction about the intersection of nature, technology and desire. On the podcast, she talks about her new short story collection, The Unreliable Nature Writer.
Podcast | Orlando Whitfield
We talk to Orlando Whitfield, writer and self-proclaimed failed art dealer about his new book, All That Glitters: A Story Of Friendship, Fraud And Fine Art.
Archive | Murder and The London Magazine by Rayner Heppenstall
‘Having in recent years become saturated with criminal history, what strikes me most about that particular occasion is that all the principal guests were in one way or another involved with murderers.’
Essay by Rayner Heppenstall
Archive | The Fifty Ninth Bear by Sylvia Plath
‘They could easily have filled up at Mammoth Junction. He switched on the long beams, but even then the little cave of light moving ahead of them seemed no match for the dark battalions of surrounding pines.’
Fiction by Sylvia Plath.
Essay | What Would the Romantics Say? by Lee Hatsumi Mayer
‘If the meaning of a poem is obvious without breaking scrolling pace, then a core aspect of the form has been lost.’
Lee Hatsumi Mayer on the Romantic poets today.
Fiction | What Are You Reading? by Madeleine Stein
‘And then, finally, what really puzzled him: what, I mean, what were women? What was it about them, as a group, that had always made him a little wary? They suddenly seemed too wearying an abstraction, like the geometry of curved space.’
New fiction by Madeleine Stein.
Podcast | Dan Sperrin
TLM’s political cartoonist, Dan Sperrin talks to us about the state of satire in modern Britain, David Cameron’s rogue return to cabinet and where to draw the line – if there even is one – in cartooning.
Podcast | Vida Adamczweski
Writer Vida Adamczewski talks to us about reproductive rights in the UK, corporeality, and literary ‘form-fucking’.
Review | Walden Bello’s Global Battlefields: An Activist’s Self-interview as Memoir
Karl R. De Mesa November 19, 2025 Walden Bello’s Global Battlefields: An Activist’s Self-interview as Memoir . Global Battlefields: My Close…
Interview | Libation’s legacy: Malika Booker on her Forward Prize win
Jamie Cameron Libation’s legacy: Malika Booker on her Forward Prize win . Malika Booker won the 2023 Forward Prize for…
Interview | Elisabeth Mulenga’s choreographic journey through film, faith, and fusion
Katie Tobin Elisabeth Mulenga’s choreographic journey through film, faith, and fusion . Sadler’s Wells presents the first public sharing of…
Fiction | Our different useless ways by Martin Jackson
Martin Jackson Our different useless ways . . One of the strangest things about the Irish pub was the collection…
Review | The Art of Leading a Witness in Anatomy of a Fall by Blaise Radley
Blaise Radley The Art of Leading a Witness in Anatomy of a Fall . . What is a courtroom if…
Fiction | Tunnelling by Brennig Davies
. Brennig Davies Tunnelling . . I’m in my camping chair, propped at the lip of the hole. So deep…
Fiction | Pig in the Sky by Natalie Baker
Natalie Baker Pig in the Sky . . “Mama, there’s a pig in the sky.” . It was forecast to…