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…
Poetry | The Air Has Cleared by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee The Air Has Cleared . The air has cleared today, Over the city, and in my head,…
Review | Fahrelnissa Zeid at the Tate Modern
‘When I’m painting, I am always aware of a kind of communion with all living things, I mean with…
Review | Keith Vaughan: On Pagham Beach, Photographs and Collages from the 1930s
It is hard for those brought up in a world of gender fluidity, with debates about who has the…
Review | David James at Gallery 46
Gallery 46 is located in two renovated Georgian houses with their skirting, floorboards and sash windows still intact. Walking…
Fiction | The Golden Eel by Neil Burns
It had been twenty years since they last met. Thirty eight year old Eoghan O’Dullach was nervous inside; and in…
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