An essay considering South Africa after Mandela
Hedge School
Schooled under the same sign Arduus ad solem – your Latin better than mine – we thought it too…
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…
Ever the Diplomat
A brief insight into the memoirs of Sherard Cowper-Coles’s life as a diplomat.
Born in the USA
Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds, Jonathan Cape, 87pp, £10 (paperback) Nice Weather, Frederick Seidel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 102pp, £14.99…
Travels in Old Asia
Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan, Dervla Murphy, Eland, 272pp, £12.99 (paperback) Travels into Bokhara, Alexander…
A Life of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, by Artemis Cooper, John Murray, 464pp, £25 (hardback) In 1986, Between the Woods and…
The Stuff of Britain: Public and Private on View
The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart, The National Portrait Gallery, 18 October 2012 – 13 January…
Combing the Waves
The World of Georges Lacombe, Musée Maurice Denis, St. Germain-en-Laye and Musee Lambinet, Versailles, 13 November – 17 February…
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…
The Andrians
A lament for a friend: the Greek painter and shipowner, Leonidas Goulandris.
Northern Territory
We were at the lake’s edge, nothing for fifty miles. September and the first freeze glinting between wet stones,…
Passage through Icebergs
(Painted as Voyage to Labrador by Alfred Wallis, 1935-6) Pinnacles accompany steady Course, the odd dry-docked Whiteness with its…
The Selkie
Her face like a river-beaten stone on the day she rolled from the city of white walls, and pebbly…
Dawn
On steel earth and dog heat The dogs wept. Not silence. Not even the silence of the cage After…
Matisse and the Dancer
Eternal female, colour constructed in yellow armchair, fully relaxed, contours voluptuous, pattern Islamic, gazing at silhouette leaves on a…
On the Astrolabe as Described by the Science of Astronomy
Translated by Ghayth Armanazi The most precious companion of those of noble breed; Do not therefore be without, whether…
Passchendaele
Hard to imagine, as the coaches roll Along small unimportant roads through fens Blotted by bungalows and ugly sheds…
At Saint Christopher’s Hospice
You lie bald-headed on a white pillow, small hands weaving our tangled world together. And how your calmness calms…
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