Staff Picks | The Best of Gothic Fiction
As it’s Halloween, The London Magazine team have been discussing the nature of horror in fiction, and why we are so…
Preview | The Turning of The Leaves at Union Chapel
Following last year’s immersive multi-screen audio-visual installation for Remembrance Day, artist and poet Jack Miguel, filmmaker Taz Tron Delix and…
Review | Christian Marclay — The Clock at Tate Modern
Christian Marclay Blavatnik Building, level 2 Tate Modern Until 20th January 2019 “Time present and time past”, as T.S. Eliot…
Review | Limbo by Dan Fox
Following on from his brilliant attack on intellectual conservatism in 2016’s Pretentiousness: Why It Matters, Dan Fox’s new long-form essay Limbo…
Spotlight II: Dostoyevsky Wannabe
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2018 – Winners Announced!
A huge thanks to everyone who entered this year’s poetry prize! We had so many high quality entries this year…
Interview | Momtaza Mehri — Young People’s Laureate for London
Yesterday we spoke to artist and poet Momtaza Mehri, who has recently been announced as Young People’s Laureate for London, who will take over from poet and musician Caleb Femi in the role which was launched by Spread The Word Last Year.
Feature | 7 Alternative London Novels
London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in…
Event | New River Press vs The London Magazine at Burley Fisher Books
On Thursday at Burley Fisher Books in East London, The London Magazine will be collaborating on an evening of poetry and spoken word with the poetry publishers New River Press.
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2018
Submissions are now open for The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2018!
The London Magazine has published short stories by some of the most well-respected literary figures over the course of long history, from Jean Rhys to V. S. Pritchett. Our annual Short Story Competition seeks out new voices to join them.
Interview | Roubi L’Roubi | Saatchi Gallery | Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School
An interview with Roubi L’Roubi, co-curator of Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School, a new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.
Review | Focus Kazakhstan: Postnomadic Mind
Stepping into Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, originally built in 1890 to power the machinery of industrial London, the similarities between…
Review | This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
Scottish music in 1983 This is Memorial Device, David Keenan, Faber and Faber, February 2017, pp.304, £14.99, (paperback) News of the…
Winners Announced! | The London Magazine & Collyer Bristow Award For Debut Fiction
Last night we had a wonderful evening at the Collyer Bristow Gallery in London for the awards ceremony of the…
Archive | Memories of Modigliani by Anna Akhmatova
First published in the August 1964 edition of the London Magazine (Vol. 4 No.5) (translated from the Italian text by…
Interview | Richard Hearns
The acclaimed Irish artist Richard Hearns has an upcoming exhibition entitled Journey at Cadogan Contemporary. This will be the artist’s…
Event Preview | Kenilworth Arts Festival
An eclectic collection of prize-winning novelists and acclaimed international musicians will come together once again for the third annual Kenilworth…
Spotlight on: Rough Trade Books
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
Review | Letters To A First Love From The Future by Andy Armitage
Andy Armitage’s pamphlet is among a number of new releases from the poetry press Half-Moon Books, which is based in…
Event Preview | HighTide Theatre
After a hugely successful year in 2017, HighTide Theatre returns to Walthamstow for a second outing. Bringing a varied…
Archive | Why I Write — Joan Didion
First published in the June/July 1977 of The London Magazine (Vol. 17, No. 2) Of course I stole the title…
Fiction | Just for Five Minutes by Alla Melenteva
It was an early May day. The war was considered over, though it had not yet been officially declared. A…
Archive | Poetry | Rin Ishigaki
Known in Japan as the ‘bank clerk poet’, with her work frequently featuring in the bank newsletter where she was…
8 of Europe’s Best Bookshops
A good bookshop can be many different things – a haven from the world, a counter-cultural space, and a meeting…
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