Review | Arkady by Patrick Langley
Patrick Langley’s Arkady is the story of two brothers, Jackson and Frank, who are drifting.
They explore the city, a not-quite-London of abandoned offices, growing...
Review | Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, Colm Tóibín, Viking, 2018, pp.192, £14.99
Strolling through the Dublin where he once studied,...
Review | Known Unknowns at The Saatchi Gallery
In the current exhibit at the Saatchi Gallery, Known Unknowns, you are not meant to know of the artists. If you do, you’re missing...
Interview | Cultural Traffic founder Toby Mott on Arts Fairs and...
Eric Block
Cultural Traffic interview:
Arts Fairs and Counter-culture
The roving global arts and publishing fair, Cultural Traffic, will hold its fourth London edition at Old Spitalfields...
Mave Fellowes on London and the inspiration behind her novel
I spent my twenties in a top floor flat in North-West London. From its rickety balcony you could watch the sun set over a...
Review | Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt
Vivian, Christina Hesselholdt, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019, pp.192, £12.99 (paperback)
“What I produce is so good that if I start showing it to professionals, I’ll never...
Archive | Why I Write — Joan Didion
First published in the June/July 1977 of The London Magazine (Vol. 17, No. 2)
Of course I stole the title from George Orwell. One reason...
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, on the other hand,...
Replete by Maggie Butt
Replete
Enough of beauty - I have devoured
small boats curtseying at anchor,
green palace-dotted hills swarming
the spice-scented shore of Asia Minor.
I couldn’t chew another mouthful
of waves,...
9 of Europe’s Best Bookshops
A good bookshop can be many different things - a haven from the world, a counter-cultural space, and a meeting point for friends, as...
Interview | Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is a broadcaster, actor and writer who has just written Mythos, an elegant and entertaining retelling of the myths of Ancient Greece. Watch...
Review | The Nowhere Man by Kamala Markandaya
"Real danger is never born of anything concrete. There are only words in the beginning," writes Kamala Markandaya. There were 71,251 race-related hate crimes recorded in 2017/18, according to a Home Office report. That’s an average of 195 racist incidents every day [...]
Poetry | On His Deafness by Damian Grant
'No-one has ever written a poem “On His Deafness”';
(David Lodge, Deaf Sentence).
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Interview | Ilana Manolson | Chance Encounters
Inspired by the fluidity and evolution of nature, the acclaimed Canadian American artist Ilana Manolson expresses both a personal and abstract interpretation of the...
Review | Letters To A First Love From The Future by...
Andy Armitage's pamphlet is among a number of new releases from the poetry press Half-Moon Books, which is based in Otley, West Yorkshire, where...
Into the Blue by Alison Lock
A bee is trapped behind the curtains––its silhouette circles the head of a printed flower. Edith pulls her arm free of the tightly tucked...
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...
David Bowie Is at the V&A
The ‘David Bowie Is’, currently on at the V&A until mid-August. I went to the late show on a Friday after work, a stone’s...
The Easter Rising by Frank Armstrong
The one hundredth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising will hardly register in most London Magazine readers’ minds, but for Irish people the anniversary...
A conversation with Shaun Usher on ‘Letters Live’
We caught up with Shaun Usher on the art of letter writing, curating a live literary event and the phenomenal success of his concept...
Different Faces by Manash Bhattacharjee
"I wonder sometimes where people store all their different faces."
~ Trina Nileena Banerjee
The face he wears every morning
Reminds him of his mother
Combing his hair...
11th May, Hay Fever
Press night for Hay Fever on a summer’s eve: the red carpet rolled out in front of the Duke of York theatre; expectant photographers at the...
No’s Knife at The Old Vic
‘… no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that’s the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to...
Review | All Under One Roof by Evelyn Schlag
ALL UNDER ONE ROOF
Evelyn Schlag (Translated by Karen Leeder)
Carcanet, June 2018
Since 1981 Austrian poet, Evelyn Schlag has published critically-acclaimed poetry, prose and short stories,...