Goodbye, Crocodile
From the house I can see the path that leads to the valley. That is where I will go…
Thomas Hughes Headland
In 1858 Dickens began his series of lucrative public reading tours, which for the past five years had been…
Postcolonialism for Beginners
It’s already dark when we leave the beach. The sun has dropped below the horizon with a speed that…
Triptych for their Mother
I OLWEN MAY After the cow parsley, after the may, into midsummer as pierce-eyed as a sparrowhawk there in…
Bluebeard’s Wife
Bearing my unicorn’s horn Above my plucked forehead Bare as an egg – Flood silver, pouch of gold The…
Anniversary
A year past her death my watch went haywire, not the hours but the days and dates – jumping…
Terra Nova
Go to the garden gray with granite cobbles where daisy, fern and dusty miller wince in sun, where indolent…
Letters from Iris Murdoch to Alex Colville
Jean Iris Murdoch, the only child of a father who was a civil servant and a mother who aspired…
Thinking the Unthinkable: Life after Mandela
An essay considering South Africa after Mandela
Hedge School
Schooled under the same sign Arduus ad solem – your Latin better than mine – we thought it too…
Something White and Womanish: Fresh Perspectives on Jane Austen’s Seaside Romance
With the bicentennial anniversary of Pride and Prejudice in mind ‘Something White and Womanish’ explores Jane Austen’s emotional life
Letter to the Editor
The London Magazine welcomes letters to its editor sent to the editorial office at: 11 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7…
Ever the Diplomat
A brief insight into the memoirs of Sherard Cowper-Coles’s life as a diplomat.
Born in the USA
Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds, Jonathan Cape, 87pp, £10 (paperback) Nice Weather, Frederick Seidel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 102pp, £14.99…
Travels in Old Asia
Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan, Dervla Murphy, Eland, 272pp, £12.99 (paperback) Travels into Bokhara, Alexander…
A Life of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, by Artemis Cooper, John Murray, 464pp, £25 (hardback) In 1986, Between the Woods and…
The Stuff of Britain: Public and Private on View
The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart, The National Portrait Gallery, 18 October 2012 – 13 January…
Combing the Waves
The World of Georges Lacombe, Musée Maurice Denis, St. Germain-en-Laye and Musee Lambinet, Versailles, 13 November – 17 February…
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