Fiction | Asma by Dur e Aziz Amna
Dur e Aziz Amna received second prize in our Short Story Competition 2017. The year Asma moved in with us, we…
Review | What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
The joy of an episodic form is it can be appreciated multiple ways. You do not need to agree with…
Review | Known Unknowns at The Saatchi Gallery
In the current exhibit at the Saatchi Gallery, Known Unknowns, you are not meant to know of the artists. If…
Review | Black Book by Gideon Rubin at The Freud Museum
The Freud Museum, in Freud’s old house, is a five-minute walk from Finchley Road tube station, away from the main…
Review | ‘My Generation’ – The 1960s Through the Eyes of Michael Caine
My Generation Presented by Michael Caine On cinematic release from 14th March 2018 As the sun rises with a vivid…
Interview | Ted Hodgkinson at the Southbank Centre
We stopped by The Southbank Centre to chat with Ted Hodgkinson about the upcoming reopening of the Purcell Room and…
Essay | Re-reading Frankenstein by Alice Dunn
It is tempting to read Frankenstein as a means of understanding Mary Shelley. 200 years after the novel was first…
Fiction | Crete by Cameron Stewart
‘So. What do we want today?’ I’m sitting in my local barbers chair, caped up like a clown – my…
Interview | Isobel Colchester and Poet in the City
We spoke to Isobel Colchester, CEO of Poet in the City, about their work and their recent collaboration with The…
Interview | Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah talks to us about his new book, Gangsta Rap, released as an Official World Book Day Book. How would you…
Review | Andreas Gursky at Hayward Gallery
The advent of photography had a huge effect on how we see the world. The first photographs, though often posed,…
Review | The Only Story by Julian Barnes
The Only Story by Julian Barnes Readers who were a little disappointed by Barnes’s last political fiction The Noise of…
Poetry | The Line by Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson The Line White trunks divide the dark beside the line and in the dusk trees pause since if…
Fiction | The Arrangement by Jennifer Johnson
There’s someone in the kitchen. I hear the kettle being filled. I look at the clock, it’s not yet seven,…
Essay | On Writing Ethnic Stories by Haleh Agar
I was told to use my maiden name – Hassan-Yari, a name that usually meant extra questions at the customs…
Review | Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel by Neil Roberts
Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel Neil Roberts, Clemson University Press As the subtitle to this literary…
Review | Richard III: Brother, Protector, King by Chris Skidmore
Dick the Bad: History’s Most Famous Murder Suspect Richard III: Brother, Protector, King – by Chris Skidmore Weidenfeld & Nicolson,…
Review | Rainsongs, by Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard’s Rainsongs has a unique and beautiful emotive quality that shines through its delicately constructed prose in a love-letter to…
Interview | Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is a broadcaster, actor and writer who has just written Mythos, an elegant and entertaining retelling of the…
Friends of TLM | An Interview with Rachel Hurd-Wood
The first in our new interview series – Friends of The London Magazine Rachel Hurd-Wood is an actress and writer…
Julie Cope’s Naked Lunch
‘God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.’ Said Nietzsche, so instead of looking to religion…
Old mother moor by Sarah Westcott
Old mother moor is bitter – peat is the thinnest of comforts the bedrock is recalcitrant as teeth moor like…
A Walk Through Rackham Land by Steven O’Brien
Ideally, if you go into Rackham Land you should go on your own. Take a deep breath and walk. Don’t…
Interview | Bruce McLean
Bruce McLean is a Scottish performance sculptor who has just written A Lawnmower in the Loft – an amusing and…
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