Review | One Thing by Xanthi Barker and The Prick by Mazin Saleem
Xanthi Barker’s One Thing and Mazin Saleem’s The Prick are the second and third of the Open Pen Novelette series,…
Review | Counterpoint at the Stanley Spencer Gallery
Considered one of Britain’s most significant artists Stanley Spencer is famous for his singular vision, but Counterpoint sets out to demonstrate…
Review | Top Girls at the National Theatre
One of the great things about Caryl Churchill is her use of history to explore the present and anticipate the…
Essay | Residents in a World of Ideas: Thoughts on Cafés and Writing
Before a trip to Vienna a few weeks ago I asked a friend where I should go. ‘It’s all cafés…
Essay | What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? by Tom Jeffreys
Tom Jeffreys “What branches grow out of this stony rubbish?” Some notes on the art of Yelena Popova, Joanna Rajkowska,…
Review | Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern
Birthday (1942) hangs opposite the entrance to the first room. Tanning stands proud yet forlorn, shirt as open as the…
Feature | Inside Dennis Severs’ House
I arrive outside the black wooden door of Dennis Severs’ House, knock gently on the door, and wait under the…
Archive | Leaving School—XI by Ann Quin
The following piece by the post-war experimental writer Ann Quin (1936-1973) was originally published in the July 1966 issue of…
Review | The Realm of the Punisher: Travels in Duterte’s Philippines by Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes, The Realm of Punisher: Travels in Duterte’s Philippines, Signal Books, November 2019, pp. 288, £12.99 The Realm of…
News | The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2019
Last night the winners of The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses were announced, with this year’s announcement signalling…
Review | La Forza Del Destino at the Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House has brought together the best cast in the world right now for their new production of…
Interview | Curator Amanda Bradley | Counterpoint – Stanley Spencer and his Contemporaries
Known for his eccentricity and convention-defying style, Stanley Spencer’s majestic work is beyond definition. The upcoming exhibition, Counterpoint – Stanley…
Review | The Neighbourhood by Hannah Lowe
Hannah Lowe’s fourth chapbook, The Neighbourhood, begins with a winding dotted line that travels from the first to the second…
Review | Iolanta and L’enfant et les sortilèges at Royal Academy Opera
The Royal Academy Opera put on a sumptuous double bill of one-act operas: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Ravel’s L’enfant et les…
Review | Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn one hundred years old, and he still has plenty to say. In his work…
Review | Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
“When she finds a worm buried in the heart of a plum, an apple, she looks at it, shows it,…
Poetry | Joan Howson’s Cottage by Michael Henry
Michael Henry Joan Howson’s Cottage This is Black Rock Sands that …………my parents walked to from their honeymoon hideaway. Those…
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 | Circa at Old Red Lion Theatre
Circa, written by Tom Ratcliffe and directed by Andy Twyman is meant to be a story about modern gay life.…
Interview | Kevin Breathnach
I had intended my interview with Kevin Breathnach to go smoothly and at first it appeared to be doing so.…
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 | Emotive Brutes at Trate Studios
Far from the crowded and anxious streets of a city that has made insomnia the rule, sits the rare exception,…
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…
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