Review | The Governesses by Anne Serre, tr. by Mark Hutchinson
Briony Willis The Governesses The Governesses, Anne Serre, trans. by Mark Hutchinson, Les Fugitives, 2019, pp. 108, £10.00. (paperback) In…
Review | WITCH by Rebecca Tamás
Briony Willis WITCH WITCH, by Rebecca Tamás, Penned in the Margins, pp. 119, £9.99. (paperback) In her latest collection, WITCH, Rebecca…
Archive | Review | Evelyn Waugh on Don’t Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
While looking through our archive recently we came across this review by Evelyn Waugh of Nancy Mitford’s novel Don’t Tell…
Review | The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe
The scientific language used by doctors to describe cancer—the uncontrollable growth of a single cell—is often mystifying and alienating. Can…
Review | Summer and Smoke at The Duke of York’s Theatre
Briony Willis Summer & Smoke A poetic vision of human nature and our existential struggle to forge the middle ground…
Review | Death and Other Holidays by Marci Vogel
Death and Other Holidays, Marci Vogel, Melville House, November 2018 Award-winning writer, poet and translator Marci Vogel is the author…
Review | Exposure by Olivia Sudjic
Exposure, Olivia Sudjic, Pensinsula Press, 2018, pp. 127, £6 Exposure, the new book by Olivia Sudjic, elegantly dissects the multi-layered…
Review | Normal People by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney’s long-awaited second novel “Normal People” burst onto the scene last month, and has been making waves in the…
Review | Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde at The Barbican
The centrifugal drive behind much of the work featured in the Barbican’s new exhibition Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde is enunciated by Rodin in the first gallery: ‘I express in a loud voice what all artists think. Desire! Desire! What a formidable stimulant.’
Review | Promising Young Women by Caroline O’Donoghue
This year has truly brought to the fiction scene some of the most stunning and powerful female characters. From the…
Review | Break.up by Joanna Walsh
The online world often seems clean and seamless; it doesn’t have any scars to reveal its traumas or accidents. Bodies,…
Review | Nowhere Nearer by Alice Miller
Jack Solloway Nowhere nearer Nowhere Nearer, Alice Miller, Pavilion Poetry, 61pp, 2018, £9.99 (paperback) ‘We are no longer quite here…
Review | Lee Bul: Crashing at the Hayward Gallery
Lee Bul does not make art that is designed to comfort you. Her latest collection at the Hayward Gallery on…
Review | Fatherland at the Lyric Hammersmith
The coats stand out in the exhilarating performance piece Fatherland now on at the Lyric, Hammersmith after its premiere in…
Review | Multiverse by Andrew Wynn Owen
The Multiverse ( or theermvsuitle as it says on the cover) is the first poetry collection by Andrew Wynn Owen,…
Contributor’s Picks – June/July 2018
Introducing Contributor’s Picks! Recommendations for the very best in arts, culture and literature from the writers for The London Magazine…
Review | The Inheritance at The Young Vic
The Inheritance stands at almost seven hours long: Matthew Lopez’s two-part, self-aware epic on the legacy of gay men past-and…
Review | Three Women at The Trafalgar Studios
Katy Brand’s Three Women at the Trafalgar Studios offers a representation of the title across respective and somewhat stereotypical generations. Suzanne, a…
Review | Carcanet New Poetries VII: Book Launch at the London Review Bookshop
The London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury, 7pm. Wine glasses clatter as they are placed on the floor, animated conversation fills the…
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Freud is dangerous territory for poets. He did more than just make his mark on the literature of the twentieth…
The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s Theatre
Cherry Jones returns to the role of Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, directed by John Tiffany. This London…
Adventures in Moominland at Southbank Centre
“What do you know of the Moomins: the books, the television series, or maybe you just recognize the characters?” That…
Picasso Sculptures at Musée National Picasso-Paris
Picasso Sculpture opened to great acclaim last September at New York’s Museum of Modern Art before moving to the Musée…
The Threepenny Opera
If you put on a production of Romeo and Juliet in Verona, how much does anyone care that the action…
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