In Memoriam: Grey Gowrie
The London Magazine is delighted to launch the Grey Gowrie Poetry Prize 2021/2. The prize, named in the memory and…
Loving Turgenev
In 1881, while visiting Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-83) joined in the birthday merrymaking, much to…
Carl Jung: The Burden of the Prophet
If we do not have the depths, how do we have the heights? –
Carl
Jung
in…
The Last Organ Maker of Bethnal Green
An essay on the mastery of the Mander Workshop who have built the organ for the Queen’s 60th anniversary to be placed in Westminster Abbey later this year.
Spark: A Landscape of Letters and Life
An essay exploring the letters and life of Muriel Spark using her archives.
Thomas Hughes Headland
In 1858 Dickens began his series of lucrative public reading tours, which for the past five years had been…
Letters from Iris Murdoch to Alex Colville
Jean Iris Murdoch, the only child of a father who was a civil servant and a mother who aspired…
Thinking the Unthinkable: Life after Mandela
An essay considering South Africa after Mandela
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
The United Nations and its Responsibility to Protect
In a few months the UN will be sixty-seven years old. Fifty-one countries joined in 1945. Today there are one…
Making Love Collectively
The parliamentary committee that charged NewsCorp with wilful blindness over phone-hacking should cast its gaze afield. Wilful blindness is…
Isaac D’Israeli’s Curious Conservatism
A late Romantic with a taste for the pliable narrative, Benjamin Disraeli played notoriously fast and loose with historical…
Mysterious Disappearances: God, Money and the Musical Banks
Its name in raised stone lettering, at the end of an alleyway off Fleet Street, is all that is…
Thomas Mann’s ‘Disorder and Early Sorrow’: The Wounded Spirit
’Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone. – John Donne In Mann’s ‘Disorder and Early Sorrow’ (1925) the characters…
Othello, the Comedy
An extract from Mr. Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London (published by Picador, 11 October…
On Arabs and Ignorance
My father nearly died thirteen years before I was born. He was stabbed through the chest while out walking…
To Be a Pilgrim
Pilgrimage is in vogue at the moment. The numbers of pilgrims arriving at Mecca and Santiago de Compostela grow every…
Charlotte Mew: The Moon’s Dropped Child
It is likely that the case of Charlotte Mew is unique in the history of English poetry. A certain…
In the World, Not of the World: Glenn Gould’s Solitude Trilogy
Thirty years after his death: the pianist-turned-broadcaster.
The Legacy of Catullus: Did a Prayer to a Vestal Virgin ‘Save’ his Naughty Bits?
The Latin poet Catullus, an acquaintance of Julius Caesar, lived thirty years or longer between 84 BC and no…
Life after Hungary
They say a Hungarian can go into a revolving door behind you and come out in front, and it…
Meeting Robert Graves
In the summer of 1970, when driving around Majorca, I stopped for a few days in the remote coastal village…
Fear of the Self: Japanese Literature’s Tragic Hero
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, or to follow Western appellative conventions, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, is one of Japan’s literary institutions. His stories are studied…
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