Duane Hanson at The Serpentine Sackler Gallery
Occupying prime exhibition space in the cosmopolitan Serpentine Sackler Gallery are ordinary and often overlooked working class (which Americans call middle class) figures sculpted...
Interview | Keith Coventry: The Old Comedy
Eric Block
Keith Coventry:
The Old Comedy
This month sees the opening of UPSTONE SOHO, a new gallery in the heart of Soho. Its inaugural show is...
Interview with Louise Brealey on ‘Constellations’
Following its critically acclaimed run on Broadway, Nick Payne’s award-winning play Constellations is coming back to London. Directed by Michael Longhurst and starring Louise...
‘Just Books and Language’ – Interview with Abel Cutillas by Heather...
‘Just Books and Language’ – Interview with Abel Cutillas, co-owner of Llibreria Calders, Sant Antoni, Barcelona by Heather Wells
Bernat Puigtobella walks me to the...
An interview with Gwilym Jones
There’s something about the unpredictability of a storm that arouses excitement and chaos in a reader, writer, or just your average passerby on an...
Interview | Kevork Mourad: Seeing Through Babel
A new exhibition by the Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad is being staged at The Ismaili Centre, in partnership with the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto,...
Fiction | Alone with the Tide by John Saul
At last. Dismissing all fiction, I come clean. The figure coming into focus, in that smart black and grey coat, unbuttoned, collar up, is...
George Shaw – My Back to Nature
In the perpetual twilight of the woodland world, trees loom like sinister monoliths out of the gloom. Leaf-mould partially obscures a discarded garment, or...
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...
Interview | David Keenan | For The Good Times
After a career as a music writer spanning more than 20 years, David Keenan released his first novel This Is Memorial Device in 2017,...
Review | Kiss My Genders & Urban Impulses: Latin American Photography...
Art endows people with the power to take control of their self-expression, to create themselves and identify themselves in a manner unadulterated by social...
Interview | Donald Sultan
The acclaimed American figurative painter Donald Sultan currently has his first U.K retrospective at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London. Sultan is 68 now, and this show...
Interview with Caleb Femi – Young People’s Laureate for London
Caleb Femi, a 26 year old teacher and poet from Peckham, has been chosen to be the new Young People's Laureate for London. Femi...
Interview with Colin Barrett, author of ‘Young Skins’
We spoke to Colin Barrett about his writing career and his truly brilliant short story collection ‘Young Skins’. As a young and emerging author he...
Interview with Selina Nwulu – Young Poet Laureate for London
Yesterday, Selina Nwulu was chosen from 6 young poets to be the new Young Poet Laureate for London. Supported by Foundation for FutureLondon and London's...
Review | Glad I Did It — Christina Reihill at Bermondsey...
Made up of three L-shaped levels, Christina Reihill's Glad I did it is an invitation into the mind and last days of Ruth Ellis,...
Review| The Letters Page Vol.2 published by Book Ex Machina
To pick up a book, writes Ioanna Mavrou, is ‘as if stepping out of the world for a beat and taking a much needed...
Poetry | Trapeze by Layla Benitez-James
Layla Benitez-James
Trapeze
A rabbit might be taken away from a butcher by two different people and prepared separately; I mean, the structural integrity of my...
Review | Fur Coats in Tahiti by Jeremy Over
“The best way to live in the present is less carefully”: for better or worse, Jeremy Over’s winningly preposterous fourth collection, Fur Coats in Tahiti, follows its own advice to the letter. On the whole, I think, the better wins out, but let’s start by getting some of the worse [...]
His Bottom Lip by Rachel Long
Clitoral, like finding a small, hidden part
of myself in someone else.
Nerve-wet, fleshy
- for a white guy, and stained
between life-lines with red wine
gone black.
Only this...
Review | Stanley Kubrick at The Design Museum
Bringing iconic films to the main screen, from Clockwork Orange to The Shining, Stanley Kubrick has contributed significantly to 20th century popular culture. The...
Review | Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
Orange World and Other Stories, Karen Russell, Penguin, pp. 288, £14.99 (hardcover)
Karen Russell’s third short story collection Orange World is every bit as inventive...
The Vintage Poetry Showcase: Ocean Vuong and Kayo Chingonyi
Ocean Vuong and Kayo Chingonyi’s recent reading is one of the most spectacular that I have attended. R. A. Villanueva introduced the event by...
Fiction | About You by Marjorie Main
Early on a Saturday morning in October I met Vivian at Liverpool Street Station. Stevie had a painting in an exhibition opening that night,...