Review | GeorgII Uvs | Full Circle: The Beauty of Inevitability...
Science and art come together under the inventive hand of GeorgII Uvs in Full Circle: The Beauty of Inevitability. A student of geology gone...
Fiction | The Arrangement by Jennifer Johnson
There’s someone in the kitchen. I hear the kettle being filled. I look at the clock, it’s not yet seven, he’s up early. He...
An interview with Paul Benney
If you walk along one of the leafy roads from Hackney Downs and turn down a little side street, you may just find yourself...
La Bohème at The Cutty Sark
Puccini’s La Boheme has long elicited a powerful emotional response from its audiences, but rarely have the cast been close enough to see its...
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...
Bright Celestial Objects by Rebecca Goss
After Alison Watt, ‘Venus’ (2015)
Their backs against the grass,
she felt a pull, as if the leaves
on the trees were lodestones,
the hairs on her skin...
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,...
Caries by Fiona Sampson
Little hole little well
of dark staining the lacquer
of my tooth little confessor
coming close and coming close
why are you pursuing me
interrogator of the nerve
in its...
Truth and Memory at The Imperial War Museum
The walk from Waterloo station to The Imperial War Museum is one of London’s dreariest, second only to any perambulation taking in Lower Thames...
Review | The Snowman at The Peacock Theatre
This Christmas, join the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in their magical rendition of Raymond Brigg’s The Snowman.
Christmas would not be the same without this enchanting...
Interview | Cradeaux Alexander
American video and performance artist Cradeaux Alexander presents a mid-career retrospective this month at Bow Arts, London. Jemima Walter met him to uncover how...
Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson
There is a danger when a poet sets out to record the ‘numinous in the everyday’, as Neil Rollinson’s most recent collection Talking Dead...
This Land by Josie Ferrante
A feathery touch brings me round. Gentle, like the light summer rain back home in Wiltshire – thin drops patter on my face and...
A Love Letter to London and Ideas Becoming Reality, An Interview...
I’m wondering what you think of London’s cultural significance in 2013.
If you make this interview just about London, it will be like a love...
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
The American West has always been home to grifters and thieves, dreamers and doers. It has been a destination for the misfits, for the...
Difficult Cup by Isabel Galleymore
after Wu Hao’s Duke Cups
The china cup is frilled at the rim
like tired lace and all over it
ceramic tentacles extend
to whisper if you drink...
Essay | Meg Wolitzer’s #MeToo Moment by Sophie Perryer
Meg Wolitzer must be psychic. Well before the explosive allegations against Harvey Weinstein were revealed and the #MeToo movement gathered pace, she penned The...
Book Launch at Enitharmon: Stephen Romer and Alan Jenkins
The light, bright space of Enitharmon bookshop in Bloomsbury was filled with jostlings and murmurings as more and more people tried to fit into...
The Problem with Paolo Sorrentino by George Hull
The work of Neapolitan director Paolo Sorrentino combines a compelling visual style with a unique sensitivity for psychological subtleties. The five feature-length films he...
Review | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead...
'It's Animals taking revenge on people.'
Big Foot has died. Our narrator introduces us to an alarming situation in an almost mechanical tone. The newly...
Painting with Light
There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in which the odious Boy Mulcaster interrogates Charles Ryder, painter and protagonist, as to why...
Review | David James at Gallery 46
Gallery 46 is located in two renovated Georgian houses with their skirting, floorboards and sash windows still intact. Walking through the entrance hall and...
The Lighthouse by Michael Shann
The Lighthouse
Markhouse Road
So far from the wine-dark sea, a displaced
monument to faith and absurdity
at the turn of a neat, Victorian street.
Still, the treacherous rocks...
V&A Korean Collection: Chun Kwang Young: Aggregation10-SE032RED: 2010
Chun Kwang Young’s work mixes the traditional, through the use of customary Korean mulberry paper known as hanji paper, with contemporary style, as the...