Growing Pains
It is a question I have, from time to time, asked myself. If I had had the sort of…
Solomon’s Stables
Caressing mare’s ribs, the master coaxes the foal into odd environs as sibling colts munch fresh hay, sifting after…
Katherine Mansfield’s Russian Healers
During the last two years of her life, Katherine Mansfield, ailing with tuber-culosis, was attracted to her Russian ‘healers’ in…
My London
Harry Mount is the eighth writer in the My London series. Harry is a journalist, whose latest book is…
The Wretched Web
A web of sexual entanglements invisible when soaked in daylight. Silver lace glistening in the moonlight, a life of…
My London
This is the seventh in our series in which writers say what London has meant to them. William is…
A Child of World War I
If World War I had never happened, I wouldn’t be here. My father, John Dudley Lucie-Smith, met my mother,…
What If
If he truly believed in angels they would appear, I said in a dream (of whom I spoke I…
Downstream the Water Darkens
There are only a few days before we have to go home. Summer is nearly over. A flash of…
Trouble in the Avant-Garde
Contemporary art is big business nowadays, in more ways than one. It is has become a major refuge for…
Der Philosophenweg
‘Über unsere Gedanken hinaus nach den Objecten giebt es keine Brücke.’* G. Ch. Lichtenberg Love’s padlocks locked on die…
Unbound
Pele Cox’s dramatical production of ‘Unbound’ sees ‘the triangle of affection’ between Mary, Shelley and Byron…
The Fridges of Ghosts
are tall and slim. They do not smell of anything – no bacteria grow in yoghurt pots nor chicken…
SaltWater
Tobacco The taste of tobacco filled his mouth and made it water. Jim spat, and he felt ready for the…
Music for the Newer Rite
A review of Thomas Hewitt Jones’s recording ‘Incarnation: Music for Christmas’
My London
Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Anne Chisholm shares with us what London means to her
I’m Going Digital – Goodbye, Herr Gutenberg
Edward Lucie-Smith goes Digital with his new iBook ‘100 London Artists’
Ghostly Encounters
One of the most respected explorers of the day shares with us, his ghostly encounters…
Ustad Saaznawaz *Free
for Abir Bashir Bazaz As he weaves the ghazal the earth turns into water, gods dissolve in his tongue…
The Life of the Author: Roland Barthes’s China Tour
Travels in China, by Roland Barthes, translated by Andrew Brown, edited by Anne Herschberg Pierrot, Polity, 196pp, £16.99 (hardback)…
Where are our Modern Day Ciceros?
Daniel Finkelstein wrote an interesting article in The Times recently suggesting that Barack Obama was a great deliverer of…
Gunslinger Redux
Edward Dorn: Collected Poems, edited by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Carcanet, 1000pp, £25 (paperback) Westward Haut, Edward Dorn, Etruscan Books,…
Something White and Womanish: Fresh Perspectives on Jane Austen’s Seaside Romance
With the bicentennial anniversary of Pride and Prejudice in mind ‘Something White and Womanish’ explores Jane Austen’s emotional life
Letter to the Editor
The London Magazine welcomes letters to its editor sent to the editorial office at: 11 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7…
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