News | Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019 — The People’s Forest + Interview
The People’s Forest — a literary strand to Waltham Forest’s programme as the first ever London Borough of Culture this…
Review | How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s at Goldsmiths CCA
How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s opens at the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art on the 15th March, showing until…
Review | Henry Hudson — nothing sticks to nothing at Hannah Barry Gallery
The story being told is not one of words, but of a language that finds roots beyond symbols defined by…
Review | Don McCullin at Tate Britain
We live in an era in which we see more images than ever before in human history. When we see…
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2018 — Winner’s Announced!
After an overwhelming response to this year’s shortlist, our judges Samuel Fisher, Layla Benitez-James and Harry Mount have arrived at…
Review | Leminscate by Chris Viner
Leminscate, Chris Viner, Unsolicited Press, 2017, pp. 72 The 6th isn’t busy. Six days since the attack And inside the…
Review | Abuse II, The Uncanny by Alessio Bolzoni
At first you see the bodies and ask yourself why – that is how the story begins, how the narrative…
Review | Diane Arbus & Kader Attia at the Hayward Gallery
From the very conception of artistic expression, artists have engaged with the notion of self and the formation of identity.…
Review | Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears at White Cube
A Fortnight of Tears is a major new exhibition of works by acclaimed British artist Tracey Emin. The show features…
Archive | Breakfast with Borges by Andrew Graham-Yooll
First published in The London Magazine March 1983, Vol.22, No.12 Jorge Luis Borges entered the Pedmonte Restaurant on Avenida de Mayo with…
Kenneth Womack | The Making of Penny Lane
The following is an extract from Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Later Years: 1966-2016) by…
Spotlight III: Influx Press
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
Review | Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life, Death, Rebirth at Royal Academy
In a contemporary art world dominated by video art (as shown by the 2018 Turner Prize) Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life,…
Art News | Zurab Tsereteli: Larger Than Life at the Saatchi Gallery
This month sees the first major UK retrospective of Georgian-Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli’s work, whose work will be on display at…
Poetry | Michael O’Neill | A Tribute
Michael O’Neill (1953-2018) was a very gifted poet and a brilliant literary critic, who was Professor of English at the…
Essay Competition 2018 — Winners Announced!
First of all, a huge, huge thank you to everybody who shared and entered this year’s essay prize! Though it…
Interview | Amy Sackville
Back in March at the London Book Fair earlier this year, Vanessa Wheeler sat down with the author Amy Sackville…
Review | The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe
The scientific language used by doctors to describe cancer—the uncontrollable growth of a single cell—is often mystifying and alienating. Can…
News | The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
Adam Weymouth was announced as the winner of The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year…
Review | Now, Now, Louison by Jean Frémon
Now, Now, Louison, Jean Frémon (translated by Cole Swensen), Les Fugitives, 2018, pp.115, £12.00 Now, Now, Louison, originally published in French…
Review | Exposure by Olivia Sudjic
Exposure, Olivia Sudjic, Pensinsula Press, 2018, pp. 127, £6 Exposure, the new book by Olivia Sudjic, elegantly dissects the multi-layered…
Interview | 2018 Short Story Prize Judges!
With only a few weeks remaining for our Short Story Prize for this year, we thought we would catch up…
Review | Theatre | The Unreturning at the Everyman Theatre
Frantic Assembly’s latest project “The Unreturning” arrives at Theatre Royal Stratford East in January 2019. This time, their celebrated physicality…
Essay | Shakespeare’s London and the Emergence of the Playhouse
Today, the idea of the theatre can evoke tradition and history, having perhaps one of the longest histories of all…
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