Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
Pearl by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage’s new translation of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl follows his energetic 2008 translation of the same anonymous poet’s Sir…
Forward Prizes for Poetry 2016: Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection – Shortlist
This year’s contenders for the Felix Dennis Prize represent an exciting new generation of poets emerging beyond the bounds of…
Faith Healer at Donmar Warehouse
Lyndsey Turner’s revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 play uses the wisdom of age to give this oft dubbed “modern masterpiece”…
An interview with Ian McMillian
In this interview with Ian McMillan, The London Magazine’s Editor, Steven O’Brien, and Production Manager, Rachel Chanter, discuss Ian McMillan’s…
No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort
No Map Could Show Them, Mort’s second collection, explores the narratives of Victorian and modern women –mountaineers, campaigners, runners –…
Through by David Herd
David Herd begins his new collection Through with the line: ——It is possible to be precise. The wording– “it is…
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
The latest novelistic offering in Hogarth Shakespeare’s project to refashion the bard’s tales into contemporary retellings, Vinegar Girl compellingly revitalises…
The Spoils at Trafalgar Studios
Alongside a fruitful film career, it may come as a surprise that Jesse Eisenberg has time to publish a book…
Questions Concerning Aristotle’s Tomb by Manash Bhattacharjee
An archaeologist in Greece unearths Aristotle’s Tomb; others dispute the evidence. If Aristotle’s ideas are consulted, the archaeologist Needs to…
Four Watercolours by Sudeep Sen
The London Magazine has been celebrating the life of our former editor, Alan Ross. An important figure in the literary…
Poetry Prize | An interview with Rebecca Perry
Ahead of our Poetry Prize, which closes 30th June, we spoke to judge Rebecca Perry about prizes, publication and what she’ll…
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
What is ‘home’? A person? A place? A feeling of belonging? These are the questions that run through Barney Norris’s…
Painting with Light
There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in which the odious Boy Mulcaster interrogates Charles Ryder, painter and…
Home from Greece by Robert Selby
Above whitewashed, tabby-haunted Kamari, I wearied of the incessant inversions in Pope’s Homer, and left my self-improvement’s cooling terrace to…
What You Call Your ‘Winter Mode’ by Patri Wright
On the wicker chair I wait for the duvet’s rise: you’re just a mound, breath, as I worry over why,…
Men by Belinda Rule
I only like imaginary men, the ones who think my art is the most transporting thing they have ever seen,…
Fractals by Sudeep Sen | An Introduction by Fiona Sampson
Ahead of the launch of Sudeep Sen’s Fractals, read a few words on Sudeep Sen’s new collection by poet Fiona…
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The outer layer of your skin, the epidermis, replaces itself every 35 days. Become a vegetarian, better yet a vegan,…
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
What do we think of when we think of myths? For children, myths are something unquestionable and magical. They present…
The Sun Shines on Opera by Tom Sutcliffe
I will always remember my first visit to Glyndebourne. It was a Sunday and I was the countertenor in Westminster…
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo said in a 2012 interview with Zannab Sheikh that ‘poetry is a form of concentration’. Her latest collection,…
Poetry Prize | An interview with Andrew McMillan
Ahead of our Poetry Prize, which opens 1st May, we caught up with one of our two esteemed judges to…
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri’s life has been marked by a sense of ‘suspension’. Born to Bengali immigrants but brought up in America,…
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