‘The market in femininity being such, how could one hope to see any male foragers? Only old and broken husbands were sometimes to be seen towed towards an Issa store advertising free-port prices.’
Fiction by Graham Greene.
Archive | America and the Beatles by Ned Rorem
‘The Beatles are good even though everyone knows they’re good, i.e. in spite of those claims of the Under Thirties about their filling a new sociological need like Civil Rights and LSD. Our need for them is neither sociological nor new, but artistic and old, specifically a renewal, a renewal of pleasure.’
Ned Rorem on The Beatles. Originally published in the February 1968 edition of The London Magazine.
Archive | A Letter to Vernon Watkins by Dylan Thomas
‘Now I’m almost afraid of all the once-necessary artifices and obscurities, and can’t, for the life or the death of me, get any real liberation, any diffusion or dilution or anything, into the churning bulk of the words.’
A letter from Dylan Thomas to Vernon Watkins.
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.
Fiction | The Refusal by Franz Kafka
‘The petition has been refused,’ he announced. ‘You may go.’
Fiction by Franz Kafka.
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.
Archive | Two Poems by Sylvia Plath
‘Inscrutable, / Below shoulders not once / Seen by any man who kept his head, / You defy questions / You defy other godhood.’
Poetry by Sylvia Plath.
Archive | Tigers are Better-looking by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys Tigers are Better-looking “MEIN LIEB, MON CHER, MY Dear, Amigo,” the letter began. I’m off. I’ve been wanting…
Archive | Living in London – XII by Shiva Naipaul
Shiva Naipaul Living in London – XII I have had the dubious distinction of having lived in Earls Court twice:…
Archive | Five Angolan Poets (trans. Ann Titterington)
Costa Andrade, Mario Antonio, Antonio Cardosa, Arnaldo Santos, and Agostinho Neto Five Angolan Poets (Trans. Ann Titterington) INTRODUCTION Ann Titterington…
Archive | The Good German by Anton Chekov (trans. Peter Constantine)
Anton Chekov The Good German (Trans. Peter Constantine) Ivan Karlovitch Schwei, the senior foreman at the Funk & Co. steel…
Archive | Ravages of the Wild Beast in France
1765 Archive piece Ravages of the Wild Beast in France Although we have taken care not to stuff our magazine…
Essay | Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being by Raymond Shorthouse
Raymond Shorthouse Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being In contemporary philosophical debate there is increasing interest in the role…
Essay | A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux [Extract]
Annie Ernaux (trans. Alison L. Strayer) A Girl’s Story ‘I know it sounds absurd but please tell me who…
Archive | Four Conversations: Philip Larkin by Ian Hamilton
‘Kipling said somewhere that when you can do one thing really well, then do something else. Oscar Wilde said that only mediocrities develop. I just don’t know. I don’t think I want to change: just to become better at what I am.’
Ian Hamilton talks to Philip Larkin.
Archive | Talking to Dogs by W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden Talking to Dogs From the archive, the following poem ‘Talking to Dogs’ by W.H. Auden was published…
Archive | Alice by W. G. Shepherd
‘Elsie, who is a medium, clairvoyant and faith-healer, / Believes that my mother came to me / From the other side and used a spiritual force / To keep me warm.’
Poetry by W. G. Shepherd.
Archive | Discovering the Alphabet by Luigi Malerba
Luigi Malerba Discovering the Alphabet The following piece by Luigi Malerba was published in the July 1978 issue of…
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