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Covers of Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke, The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha and Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero, all shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 and reviewed by Dominic Leonard

Review | On the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist 2025 by Dominic Leonard

Camilla Grudova with her pet cat and her latest book, The Coiled Serpent

Interview | Camilla Grudova on Sentimentality, Short Forms and Being Gross

Graphic for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2026, judged by Isabelle Baafi, Dean Browne and Luke Kennard. Submissions close 30th March.

The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2026

Poet John Burnside with his posthumous collection, Empire of Forgetting

Essay | Remembering John Burnside in The Empire of Forgetting by Callum MacKillop

The London Magazine's Best Books of 2025

The Best Books of 2025

A photo of writer Lillian Fishman with the cover of her debut novel, Acts of Service

Interview | Lillian Fishman on Sex, Self-Knowledge and Psychoanalysis

Photo of The Mill, France, the location for The London Magazine writing retreat

The London Magazine Writing Retreat at The Mill, France

Winner of The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025, Renesha Dhanraj

Renesha Dhanraj wins The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025

Image of Lili Anolik with the cover of her book, Didion & Babitz

Interview | Lili Anolik on Didion, Babitz and Literary Stardom by Emmeline Armitage

Photo of writer Zadie Smith with the cover of her new essay collection, Dead and Alive.

Review | Fictionally Speaking, True by Hassan Akram

Cover of the February 1962 edition of The London Magazine, an issue dedicated to poetry.

Archive | A 1962 Survey of Poets

Thomas Cole's Tornado in an American Forest to reflect the subject matter of the essay on Hurricane Sandy by Gabrielle Showalter

Essay | The Leftovers by Gabrielle Showalter

Writer Jordan Castro and the cover of his novel, Muscle Man.

Review | To Go Through the Raskolnikov Process by Hugh Foley

Cover of Saints by Tim MacGabhann.

Interview | Tim MacGabhann on Short Stories and the Anti-Plot Sentence

Image of a swimming pool.

Essay | Swimming Pools by Emmeline Armitage

Images of Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie, joint winners of the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Interview | Forward Prize for Best Collection: Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie

Images of Bella Cox and Joshua Idehen, shortlistees for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem - Performed

Interview | Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed: Bella Cox and Joshua Idehen

Images of Isabelle Baafi and Michael Mullen who are both shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best First Collection

Interview | Forward Prize for Best First Collection: Isabelle Baafi and Michael Mullen

Images of Tom Branfoot and Tim Tim Cheng who interview each other about being shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem - Written.

Interview | Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written: Tom Branfoot and Tim Tim Cheng

Image of Mai Serhan with the cover of her new book, 'I Can Imagine It For Us'.

Interview | Mai Serhan on Exile, Form and the Making of a Writer

A photo of the Lennon Walls that were cropping up around Hong Kong during the 2019 protests

Fiction | In That Other City, One I Knew and Loved by Jimin Kang

Lane of Oaks in Late Summer by Maria Bilders-van Bosse, Rijksmuseum

Essay | For Love of the Feral by Christiana Spens

Art by Chris Lanooy

Essay | Between Beirut, Gaza and Glangwili by A. Naji Bakhti

Cover of the July 1961 edition of The London Magazine, an issue dedicated to painting, and the first page of a group survey of British painters.

Archive | The Predicament of International Style: British Painters in 1961