Essay | Fight or Flight by Daisy Sainsbury
Daisy Sainsbury Fight or Flight . . When I was a child, my dad used to tell a funny story…
Essay | Shelf Haunting by Jeremy Wikeley
Jeremy Wikeley Shelf Haunting . . Before the pandemic, when coincidences still happened, I was haunted by the poet Gavin…
Essay | Harry Diamond’s Some London People, Fifty Years On by Adelaide Crosby
Adelaide Crosby Harry Diamond’s Some London People, Fifty Years On While perhaps best known by-proxy for his relationship with Francis…
Essay | Manet, Mandarins and Me by Chloë Ashby
Chloë Ashby Manet, Mandarins and Me My husband doesn’t enjoy peeling oranges. He doesn’t like the little white webs…
Essay | Literary Riches by Josh Mcloughlin
Josh Mcloughlin . Literary Riches This essay was originally published in the December 22/January 23 issue of The London Magazine. …
Essay | Counting the Bodies by Clare Fisher
Clare Fisher Counting the Bodies 1. The Writing Body I believed, for the longest time, that my writing and…
Essay | Heartbreakers by Christiana Spens [Extract]
Christiana Spens Heartbreakers The following is an excerpt from ‘The Fear’, available for pre-order with Repeater Books now. After I graduated,…
Essay | Wolf’s Hall by Joanne Paul
Joanne Paul Wolf’s Hall In November 1508, a haberdasher named Thomas Sunnyff walked along Candlewick Street in central London. Passers-by…
Essay | Kingsley and the Women by Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes Kingsley and the Women Last year marked the centenary of the birth of Kingsley Amis, the finest British…
Essay | Blackgirl on Mars by Lesley-Ann Brown [Extract]
Lesley-Ann Brown Blackgirl on Mars I decided to go to plant school. It’s not a physical school with humans as…
Essay | Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being by Raymond Shorthouse
Raymond Shorthouse Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being . . In contemporary philosophical debate there is increasing interest in…
Essay | Passing the Times with Rosemary Mayer by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Passing the Times with Rosemary Mayer Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching was shown at Spike Island, Bristol, between…
Essay | You Must Change Your Life: Making Room For Wonder by Maya Popa
Maya C. Popa You Must Change Your Life: Making Room for Wonder Among the daily wonders we experience as human…
Essay | A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux [Extract]
Annie Ernaux (trans. Alison L. Strayer) A Girl’s Story ‘I know it sounds absurd but please tell me who…
Essay | A New Season by Tara McEvoy
Tara McEvoy A New Season My first training session with the East Belfast ladies Gaelic football team was on July…
Essay | A North London Light by Christiana Spens
Christiana Spens A North London Light Joshua Press works from home. More specifically, he paints from home, and in a…
Essay | Death and Forgetting by Kate Tsurkan
Kate Tsurkan Death and Forgetting J.H. Rosny aîné, a founding author of French science fiction — whose stories featured sinister,…
Essay | The Violence of Myth by Daisy Dunn
Daisy Dunn The Violence of Myth > I grew up reading the Greek myths. Every birthday or Christmas another compilation…
Essay | Sting in the North? by Josh Mcloughlin
Josh Mcloughlin Sting in the North? ‘There is […] a real difference between North and South’, George Orwell said in…
Essay | Rediscovering Irishness by Fran Mulhern
. . Fran Mulhern Rediscovering Irishness . . As many children of the Troubles in Northern Ireland would no doubt…
Essay | Poetry Games by Nick Murray
Nick Murray Poetry Games Game, in comparison to its considerably older and more established sibling Film, is still a mere…
Essay | Seeing Green with Megan Baker by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Seeing Green with Megan Baker Between the house and the man, stood a woman. Dark brown hair coiled…
Essay | A Good Weapon: Hemingway’s Men at War by Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers A Good Weapon: Hemingway’s Men at War Ernest Hemingway’s 1,100-page military anthology Men at War (1942)— published in…
Essay | Taking a Long Look: The Second Sex by Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick Taking a Long Look: The Second Sex Deep into my own middle age, I reread The Second…
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