Current Issue

October / November 2025

Cover image by Sandra Blow.

Poetry by Xabier Usabiaga, Holly Pollard, Andrew Kerr, Eric McHenry, Rowland Bagnall, Nina Relijć, Tarn McArthur, Patrick Romero McCafferty, Dominic Leonard, Horatio Morpurgo, Paul Chuks, Matthew Moniz and Carolyn Oliver. 

Short fiction by Kasra Lang, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Alisha Dietzman.

Featuring:

• Tristram Fane Saunders on why magazines fail.
• Zuhri James on the Buddha of Suburbia and the psychogeography of London.
• Zsófia Paulikovics on Perfection, Allegro Pastel and the aesthetic life.
• And Yasmina Snyder explores the links between live music and poetry with writers, poets and musicians.

Reviews:

• Lucy Thynne on Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett.
• Sara Ahmad on Good Country People and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor.
• Hugh Foley on That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott and Avidyā by Vidyan Ravinthiran.
• Katie Tobin on The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus.

Cover details: Inside Story, Sandra Blow, 1991-92, 109 x 109cm © Sandra Blow Estate