Essay | Introduction to Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man
The following essay is the introduction to the latest edition of The Nowhere Man, a novel by Kamala Markandaya, first…
Review | Group Hat and How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s at De La Warr Pavilion
The waves come and go, breaking on the shore at their own singular pace. Grains of sand become whole under…
Review | Jellyfish at the National Theatre
Ben Weatherhill wrote Jellyfish specifically for the actress Sarah Gordy, and after seeing her incredible performance at The National Theatre,…
Review | Ten Years of Towner Art Gallery
The building itself is an intricate dance of angles, edges and corners; the colours and lines are a call to…
Essay | Low Fidelity: The Case for Shakespeare’s Reinvention by Katrina Bennett
Katrina Bennett Low Fidelity: The Case for Shakespeare’s Reinvention Perhaps more so than any other Elizabethan writer, William Shakespeare was…
Interview | Kevork Mourad: Seeing Through Babel
A new exhibition by the Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad is being staged at The Ismaili Centre, in partnership with the…
Fiction | The Prisoner by Tammye Huf
Tammye Huf The Prisoner I set my alarm clock for midnight, because at one in the morning we wanted to…
Review | Nan Goldin & Jenny Holzer at Tate Modern
In two exhibitions by Jenny Holzer and Nan Goldin currently on display at the Tate Modern we are presented by…
Review | Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
Orange World and Other Stories, Karen Russell, Penguin, pp. 288, £14.99 (hardcover) Karen Russell’s third short story collection Orange World…
Review | Frank Bowling at Tate Britain
Born in 1934 in what was then British Guiana (now Guyana), Frank Bowling studied at the Royal College of Art…
Interview | Alan Trotter
Alan Trotter is a writer based in Edinburgh. Muscle, his debut novel, was awarded the inaugural Sceptre Prize for a…
Essay | Memories of the 60s by Leonard Quart
Leonard Quart Memories of the 60s I have been trying hard to emotionally survive the Trump era, while living with…
Review | Fabulosa! The Story of Britain’s Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker
Fabulosa! The Story of Britain’s Secret Gay Language, Paul Baker, Reaktion Books, 2019, pp. 320, £15.99 (Hardcover) Polari is a…
Review | Edvard Munch: Love and Angst at the British Museum
Known for the haunting anguish of The Scream, Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch produced less notorious pieces with a…
Interview | Scott Eaton | Artist+AI
A truly ground-breaking Artificial Intelligence art exhibition has recently been on display at Somerset House. Entitled Artist+AI: Figures & Form in…
Spotlight IV: Penned in the Margins
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
Review | Four Quartets at the Barbican
T. S. Eliot was famously wary about artistic interpretations of his poems. In a letter in 1947 to Dale E.…
Fiction | Down the Marina by Daniel Kramb
Daniel Kramb Down the Marina At the city’s edge, half way into the marina, Ana-Maria sits on top of her…
Review | Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman by Charles Williams
Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman By Charles Williams Biteback Publishing, £25 In the age of the internet it is…
Archive | Coming to London IX by Christopher Isherwood
The following piece was first published in The London Magazine August 1956 Volume 3 No. 8 as “Coming to London…
Fiction | In Search of Scott by Will Kitson
Will Kitson In Search of Scott I remember the first time I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work. I was 20…
Review | Stanley Kubrick at The Design Museum
Bringing iconic films to the main screen, from Clockwork Orange to The Shining, Stanley Kubrick has contributed significantly to 20th…
Fiction | Are There More People Alive Than Dead? by Laurane Marchive
Laurane Marchive Are There More People Alive Than Dead? The phone rings. 5am. It’s your boyfriend. He is in New…
Review | Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt
Vivian, Christina Hesselholdt, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019, pp.192, £12.99 (paperback) “What I produce is so good that if I start showing…
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