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 | Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings — Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The first thing that you see as you enter the Virginia Woolf exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum is a photograph…
Review | Death and Other Holidays by Marci Vogel
Death and Other Holidays, Marci Vogel, Melville House, November 2018 Award-winning writer, poet and translator Marci Vogel is the author…
Review | Glad I Did It — Christina Reihill at Bermondsey Project Space
Made up of three L-shaped levels, Christina Reihill’s Glad I did it is an invitation into the mind and last…
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…
The London Magazine Podcast | Episode 4 | A Discovery of Ancient Literature
We were recently contacted by Reverend Christian Mitchell of the church of Heathfield in rural Sussex, who had made a…
Review | Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts
Oceania is the first ever major survey of Oceanic art to be held in the UK and is pioneering in its…
Review | Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War at the British Library
Anglo-Saxon England, which lasted from the 5th to the 11th centuries, a span two-hundred years longer than the Roman occupation,…
Archive | Philip Larkin | Two Poems: To The Sea, Annus Mirabilis
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a prolific poet and writer of essays, criticism and reviews during the twentieth century. Described as…
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…
Review | Green Noise by Jean Sprackland
Green Noise, Jean Sprackland, Jonathan Cape, 2018, 64pp, £10.00 With Green Noise, the fifth collection from Jean Sprackland, she attunes us to…
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…
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…
Archive | Essay | Some Recollections of Brâncuși by Eugène Ionesco
The following essay, originally published in the April 1961 edition of The London Magazine, recounts the time by spent by…
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…
Poetry | Woman by Manash Bhattacharjee
Woman “It’s easy, impossible, hard, worth trying.” ~ Wislawa Szymborska, “Portrait of a Woman” (1976) She is intimately attached To…
Review | Medusa at Sadler’s Wells Theatre
Briony Willis Medusa Through beautifully poetic movements and engaging drama, Jasmin Vardimon has created a unique choreographic voice that enables…
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…
Review | The Book of Joan by Lidia Yukavitch | H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker
H(a)ppy, Nicola Barker, William Heinemann, 2017 The Book of Joan, Lidia Yuknavitch, Canongate, 2018 In Nicola Barker’s H(a)ppy and Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book…
Spotlight II: Dostoyevsky Wannabe
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
Review | Normal People by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney’s long-awaited second novel “Normal People” burst onto the scene last month, and has been making waves in the…
Preview | Phoebe Dickinson: Journey Through Landscape at Tessa Packard Showroom
British painter From the 12th of November, BP Portrait Award 2018 nominee Phoebe Dickinson will unveil her new exhibition “Journey…
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