Essay | A Journey Through Silence by Georgie Knaggs
The chat stops. We rise to our feet, step back over our benches. My foot hunts for its flip-flop. I…
Review | The Ink Trade by Anthony Burgess, Edited by Will Carr
Even though Burgess was an ‘enormously prolific journalist’, he is dominantly known for his controversial, cult classic A Clockwork…
Essay | Personal Feeling is the Main Thing by Sue Hubbard
By Sue Hubbard I have long been interested in the work of Chantal Joffe and have written about her on…
Review | The Inheritance at The Young Vic
The Inheritance stands at almost seven hours long: Matthew Lopez’s two-part, self-aware epic on the legacy of gay men past-and…
Review | Three Women at The Trafalgar Studios
Katy Brand’s Three Women at the Trafalgar Studios offers a representation of the title across respective and somewhat stereotypical generations. Suzanne, a…
Review | Home by Amanda Berriman
Home is an overwhelming and important, gripping novel about a struggling family seen through the eyes of four-year old daughter, Jesika. Amanda…
Poetry | On His Deafness by Damian Grant
‘No-one has ever written a poem “On His Deafness”’; (David Lodge, Deaf Sentence). – – – – – – – –…
Fiction | The Old Men Who Row Boats by David Joseph
In Madrid, not far from the great museums that line the streets, old men row boats in the morning hours…
Review | Carcanet New Poetries VII: Book Launch at the London Review Bookshop
The London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury, 7pm. Wine glasses clatter as they are placed on the floor, animated conversation fills the…
Fiction | About You by Marjorie Main
Early on a Saturday morning in October I met Vivian at Liverpool Street Station. Stevie had a painting in an…
Fiction | Beloved by Roger Raynal
That morning, when Ryoji woke up, fired from sleep by a strident, but usual sound, he refrained from opening…
Essay | My London by Mark Wilkins
Arriving in London in late September 1977 to start a law degree course, I fell irretrievably in love with London,…
Review | Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy at the Tate Modern
If you’ve ever doubted the sheer scale of Picasso’s productivity, a visit to the Tate Modern’s latest exhibition will convince…
Fiction | We Walk to Dissect by Laura Davis
There are bulls everywhere, a mass of black parading around the fence. The grass is yellower where their feet trample,…
Fiction | The Sinners’ Corner by Mark Sadler
I returned to work on a dismal Tuesday morning, emerging from the main entrance of London, Fenchurch Street, railway station…
Poetry | Under the Loquat by Peter Anderson
He had that majority under the loquat, rain falling like a god in gold, the breakthrough sun, and the spin…
Interview | Bea Colley – Southbank Centre
We stopped by the Southbank Centre to talk with Literature Programmer Bea Colley about the reopening of the Queen Elizabeth…
Fiction | Sylvia Plath Watches Us Sleep, But We Don’t Mind by Victoria Richards
‘Sylvia Plath Watches Us Sleep, But We Don’t Mind’ was the third prize winner in our Short Story Competition 2017.…
Fiction | Mr. Cahill by William Roberts
The little party wandered slowly along the rows of the hillside garden, pausing in the warm afternoon Northern California…
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…
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