My London by Tristram Fane Saunders
Home is a box on Coppermill Lane, caught in the crosshairs of Walthamstow High Street and Blackhorse Road. It’s a…
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
I was reading Orhan Pamuk’s Snow in London recently, when a Scottish man stopped me to say how much he’d enjoyed it –…
The Lobster
If you were to be turned into an animal what animal would you choose? This question remains at the forefront…
Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots
Upon viewing Jackson Pollock’s 1951 solo show in which he debuted his now famed ‘black paintings’, friend and fellow painter…
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
Paterson is at his best when writing about heartbreak. “The Six,” this reviewer’s favourite piece in 40 Sonnets, speaks…
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
In 2009, Ursula K. Le Guin caused something of a stir in the science-fiction community by contradicting Atwood’s claim that…
The New World by Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz
The New World Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz Granta, £12.99 (paperback) The New World opens grippingly by immersing the reader…
Iain Sinclair and Will Self on Walking London
I’ve got a new eternal certainty to file alongside death and taxes: if you walk around London enough, and you…
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt
‘Cheerily, then, as one making teatime conversation, she asked “do you yourself ever think of suicide?” Lucy pondered this. “No…
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury, £18.99 Reworked from an e-serial, Atwood’s latest novel is as captivating and humorous…
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen likes big books. Each one of his critically acclaimed works are weighty door-stoppers but their tangible size in…
My Salinger Year – Joanna Rakoff
‘”We need,” she said, as I arranged myself in the chair across from her large wooden desk, “to talk about…
An Interview with Calisi Press
In recent months Ferrante Fever has been catching. If you haven’t already heard of the anonymous Italian female author who’s…
Refugees by Manash Bhattacharjee
Refugees I know a thing or two about refugees – As a child I heard father say, “We were sleeping…
Dark Fairytale – Review of McQueen at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
McQueen Theatre Royal Haymarket Limited run from 19th August Reviewed by Lauren Hepburn It’s been five years since Lee McQueen…
Defining the Unfinished – Works from The Courtauld Gallery
Unfinished…Works from The Courtauld Gallery Summer Showcase Special Display 18th June-20th September 2015 Unfinished masterpieces tend only to come to…
Ai Weiwei – A Man in the Way
Ai Weiwei, The Royal Academy of Arts, 19 September – 13 December 2015 I’m writing this in the run-up to…
In the Belly of a Beast – The Serpentine Pavilion
On the 25th June The Serpentine Pavilion unveiled its much-anticipated 15th annual commission, this time appointed to young Spanish architects José Selgas…
Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
In Where My Heart Used to Beat, we witness the transformation of protagonist Robert Hendricks’s ideas on memory and its…
Independence Day by Manash Bhattacharjee
Independence Day (15th August, 1947) The day had turned out to be A feast for vultures Every Muslim and Hindu…
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ – Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone
This year London houses a major retrospective of the work of Barbara Hepworth alongside her friend and contemporary Henry Moore…
The Atheist’s Burden
Submission, Michel Houellebecq, William Heinemann, 256pp, ISBN 1785150243 £12.91 (French edition) Soumission Flammarion ISBN 2081354802 ‘Rats will most probably outlive mankind;…
O Brittania Where Art Thou? An interview with Mohammad Zahoor
by Steven O’Brien This interview originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Mohammad Zahoor is a Ukraine-based British businessman and publisher of the…
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