Chalk Poets by Stephanie Norgate
The otherness of nature, the gap that separates its permanence from our finite experience, is as much a part of its constructed character as...
Wife by Tiphanie Yanique
Intimacy and infidelity, warmth and vacuousness, possessed and free. These are all the paradoxes that are found, lost, and found again in Tiphanie Yanique’s...
Poetry | The Line by Fiona Sampson
White trunks divide the dark
beside the line
and in the dusk trees pause
since if they do not move they cannot
see themselves
or know this moment has...
The Soviet Prom by Neil Herrington
Wednesday, 21 August 1968
The moment you and Slava enter the dining room, he throws himself on the first person he sees, kisses both of...
Competence by Anna Kahn
There is nothing in this room
for those who have not learned to
sing without thinking, who don’t know
where the music fits in their bodies, how
to...
Review | James Cook: The Voyages at The British Library
By Charlie Allen
James Cook: The Voyages, British Library, 69 Euston Road, NW1 2DB
It is appropriate that an exhibition about nautical exploration should take place...
What I’m Reading – Thomas Morris
We asked The Stinging Fly editor and short story writer Thomas Morris about the things he's reading, watching and listening to right now.
Reading
Dorthe Nors’s Karate Chop (some...
Extending the Range of Pejoratives: Howard Jacobson’s Pussy
Written in “a fury of disbelief” during the weeks that followed the unlikely election of Donald Trump, Howard Jacobson’s latest novel Pussy dramatizes the...
‘Savage Beauty’ – Alexander McQueen exhibition at the V&A
From 14th March - 2nd August, the V&A is graced by the biggest Alexander McQueen exhibition in Europe. Since McQueen committed suicide in 2010,...
Review | Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn one hundred years old, and he still has plenty to say.
In his work Little Boy – a sort...
Review | End of the Pier at the Park Theatre
Review | End of the Pier by Danny Robins
By Francis Beckett
Mike is a successful stand-up comic with his own television show. His father Bobby...
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...
Interview | Sophie Mackintosh
Last month Megan Girdwood reviewed Sophie Mackintosh’s debut dystopian novel The Water Cure, rendering it uneasy, hypnotic and yet so captivating. We asked Sophie...
Fractals by Sudeep Sen | An Introduction by Fiona Sampson
Ahead of the launch of Sudeep Sen's Fractals, read a few words on Sudeep Sen's new collection by poet Fiona Sampson.
Sudeep Sen is a...
Interview | Lucy Pearson, The Literary Edit
Lucy Pearson runs The Literary Edit book blog and @the_litedit on Instagram. She has over 11,000 followers and has been blogging since 2012, and...
Review | This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
Scottish music in 1983
This is Memorial Device, David Keenan, Faber and Faber, February 2017, pp.304, £14.99, (paperback)
News of the death, back in June, of Bogdan...
London Literature Festival, Southbank Centre
An evening at the Southbank Centre is always going to be enlightening and entertaining - this is never more true than during the London...
Essay | The Warlock of Love: Revisiting Marc Bolan’s Forgotten Poetry...
Fifty years ago in March 1969, a rather odd book of verse hit Britain’s bookshelves. Its jacket contained no description of what lay inside...
Review | Keith Vaughan: On Pagham Beach, Photographs and Collages from...
It is hard for those brought up in a world of gender fluidity, with debates about who has the right to use which bathroom,...
Interview with Senior Curator Daniel Robbins
Heather Wells interviews Daniel Robbins, Senior Curator of the Leighton House Museum talking about the current exhibition, A Victorian Obsession.
Thank you for letting us...
The Matter that Doesn’t Matter – Hill of Doors by Robin...
‘He’s back in the ghost house
where he, himself, is the ghost.’
(‘Broken’)
‘sending her long arrows in flight through the standing pines
as if threading nets in...
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 was one of the first...
Fiction | Sylvia Plath Watches Us Sleep, But We Don’t Mind...
Sylvia Plath Watched Us Sleep, But We Don't Mind was the third prize winner in our Short Story Competition 2017.
We’ve been married three years...
Spotlight III: Influx Press
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and 60s, when young writers...