Poetry | A Recipe for Exile by Emily Barker
Emily Barker A Recipe for Exile …. Gilberto Gil is six strings sweet into writing a song that sees The Beatles…
Fiction | Like Brando in the Opening Scene of Last Tango in Paris by Kent Kosack
Kent Kosack Like Brando in the Opening Scene of Last Tango in Paris I’m shuffling along except this isn’t…
Fiction | Pity by Isaac Nowell
Isaac Nowell Pity With my legs dangling down familiarly Over a crater’s edge, I told myself ‘Pity begins at…
Fiction | Gleanings by Jack Sheehan
Jack Sheehan Gleanings When the weather is dry I sometimes sleep with the chickens. People will tell you they’re…
Review | Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life by Liam Peress
Liam Peress Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life Abstract art. A phrase that seems to confuse and…
Essay | Félix Fénéon and Fin de Siécle Micro-fiction by Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness Félix Fénéon and Fin de Siécle Micro-fiction Editing the new two-volume Penguin Book of French Short Stories, I…
Fiction | Paris est magique by Wendy Erskine
Wendy Erskine Paris est magique Bus is rammed, always full on the wet days with the blazers stinking of dogs’…
News | Short Story Prize 2022: Sarah Moore Fitzgerald wins first place for her story ‘Matamoros, July 1846’
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2022 awards first place to Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, after her short story ‘Matamoros, July…
Review | The Meaning of Sex by Stuart Walton
Stuart Walton The Meaning of Sex Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning, Carrie Jenkins, Polity, pp.200, 2022, £14.99…
Essay | ‘Force, hatred, history’: James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100 by Daniel Mulhall
Daniel Mulhall ‘Force, hatred, history’: James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100 James Joyce’s Ulysses was published in Paris on 2…
Poetry | Turkish Delight by Isabelle Baafi
Isabelle Baafi Turkish Delight i know ………everything ………how blood finds its way……… in the dark ……..why earth spins ………but…
Poetry | Care for me like you would a leg injury by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa Care for me like you would a leg injury i would like for my presence to…
Poetry | The Bond by André Naffis-Sahely
André Naffis-Sahely The Bond The dry August air reeks of wood and ash and the smoke plumes leaving the rocky…
Fiction | The Crying Suite by David Hering
David Hering The Crying Suite Lachrynoma: cancer of the tears. I was sent down to a stone building behind the…
Review | Arab Music Days in Berlin, an Omphalos of Being at the Pierre Boulez Saal
Review Arab Music Days in Berlin, an Omphalos of Being at the Pierre Boulez Sal The chill sky above Berlin…
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…
Fiction | How Are Things With You? by William Bedford
William Bedford How Are Things With You? It was three in the morning when they left the club. Blossom Dearie…
Fiction | Asphyxia by Violette Leduc
My mother never gave me her hand… She always helped me on and off pavements by pinching my frock or coat very lightly at the spot where the armhole provides a grip. It humiliated me. I felt I was inside the body of an old horse with my carter dragging me along by one ear… One afternoon, as a gleaming carriage sped past, splattering the leaden summer with its reflections, I pushed the hand away right in the middle of the road. She pinched the cloth […]
Essay | Reflections on Orwell’s Coming Up for Air by Patrick Maxwell
“Call it peace, if you like. But when I say peace I don’t mean absence of war, I mean peace, a feeling in your guts. And it’s gone for ever if the rubber-truncheon boys get hold of us.” What moves us about this passage? It is not particularly difficult to know which literary world we are in, which part of history we are being exposed to, and even which author is speaking […]
Review | Young Rembrandt & Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age
The similarities between the life paths of the 17th century Dutch painters Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693) and Rembrandt (1606-1669) are intriguing. Both grew up in small town Holland, both were apprenticed to local painters at an early age, both moved to Amsterdam to work with a master, both returned to their home towns to perfect their own style, both ended their lives in Amsterdam to which each had returned as their careers began to burgeon […]
Interview | Elizabeth Eade at HIX ART
HIX ART is currently presenting I know you are but what am I, the first major solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Elizabeth Eade. In this new series of installations, Eade playfully and powerfully continues her exploration of a range of social and political issues. In 2018, Eade won the celebrated HIX Award, judged by the likes of Tracey Emin and Gavin Turk, with her piece Die Liste — a ten-metre-long handwritten list documenting the deaths […]
Interview | Atiq Rahimi on dreams, minimalism and the female nude
‘Depicting the body is a very political act in my culture, no matter what you do with it; even if it’s abstract. Nudity is a political act. Unveiling the body is engaging with the essential in life, the universal. The body is fundamentally the same regardless of gender. Some political regimes divide the genders along the lines of insignificant bodily differences. Politics often create a contradiction between the sexes when, in actual fact, it’s just a difference, nothing else.’ […]
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