Kahani Near Sloane Square…Oh Those Lamb Chops!
I have been to expansive Sikh restaurants in Southall and frenetic Pakistani grills in Whitechapel. I once had a very good jalfrezi in Dublin....
Extract | Tony and Eve by Eve Hall
From the forthcoming memoir by Phil Hall Steinhardt, Tony and Eve.
My heroine of very early days was Joan of Arc, whom I loved passionately....
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2019
Submissions for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2019 are now open!
Over the years The London Magazine has been home to some of the most...
Review | Whip-Hot & Grippy by Heather Phillipson
Whip-Hot & Grippy begins with a hyphen and ends with a personal statement, with the intervening 126 pages featuring advertising-speak, sex scenes, terrorism, broadcast...
Review | Skylon Deeply Savoury on the South Bank
I hardly ever go across the river to the south side. I cannot stand the man-boys ruckling along on their skateboards. Yet go we...
Poetry | Ants on City Walls by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Ants on City Walls
Think
Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices
Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent...
Feature | Inside Dennis Severs’ House
I arrive outside the black wooden door of Dennis Severs' House, knock gently on the door, and wait under the gas lantern which hangs...
Archive | Leaving School—XI by Ann Quin
The following piece by the post-war experimental writer Ann Quin (1936-1973) was originally published in the July 1966 issue of The London Magazine, but...
News | The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2019
Last night the winners of The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses were announced, with this year’s announcement signalling a re-structuring of the...
Review | La Forza Del Destino at the Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House has brought together the best cast in the world right now for their new production of Verdi’s La Forza Del...
Extract | Twenty Theatres to See Before you Die by Amber...
Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die by Amber Massie-Blomfield is a love letter to Britain's theatres — a beautiful paean to the nation's...
Poetry | Joan Howson’s Cottage by Michael Henry
Michael Henry
Joan Howson's Cottage
This is Black Rock Sands that
............my parents walked to
from their honeymoon hideaway.
Those are the footprints they left
............on the sand.
That is the...
News | Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019 — The People’s...
The People's Forest — a literary strand to Waltham Forest's programme as the first ever London Borough of Culture this year — has recently...
Review | How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s at Goldsmiths CCA
How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s opens at the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art on the 15th March, showing until 26th May, before moving...
Review | Henry Hudson — nothing sticks to nothing at Hannah...
The story being told is not one of words, but of a language that finds roots beyond symbols defined by mere convention. Memories that...
Archive | Fiction | Let Them Call it Jazz by Jean...
One bright Sunday morning in July I have trouble with my Notting Hill landlord because he ask for a month’s rent in advance. He...
Review | Don McCullin at Tate Britain
We live in an era in which we see more images than ever before in human history. When we see these images, in newspapers...
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2018 — Winner’s Announced!
After an overwhelming response to this year's shortlist, our judges Samuel Fisher, Layla Benitez-James and Harry Mount have arrived at a decision for this...
Review | Leminscate by Chris Viner
Leminscate, Chris Viner, Unsolicited Press, 2017, pp. 72
The 6th isn’t busy.
Six days since the attack
And inside the Monoprix
The aisles of life still reel...
Review | Abuse II, The Uncanny by Alessio Bolzoni
At first you see the bodies and ask yourself why – that is how the story begins, how the narrative unravels, how you are...
Review | Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
“Jimmy was starting to stand when a resigned, almost amused look passed over Ah-Jack’s face. Like he was tired of waiting for disaster to...
Review | Diane Arbus & Kader Attia at the Hayward Gallery
From the very conception of artistic expression, artists have engaged with the notion of self and the formation of identity. The work of Kader...
Review | Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears at White Cube
A Fortnight of Tears is a major new exhibition of works by acclaimed British artist Tracey Emin. The show features features a large selection...
Archive | Breakfast with Borges by Andrew Graham-Yooll
First published in The London Magazine March 1983, Vol.22, No.12
Jorge Luis Borges entered the Pedmonte Restaurant on Avenida de Mayo with the stiff steps of the...