Review | Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die by Amber...
“You can take an empty space and call it a bare stage”, Amber Massie-Blomfield opens her book with this evocative statement and thus begins...
Review | Billy Budd at Royal Opera House
For the first time in almost twenty years, Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd returns home to the Royal Opera House in this co-production with Rome...
Interview | Kate Mosse: Secrets of Storytelling
Kate Mosse is a multi-million, number one bestselling author who writes historical fiction combined with crime, adventure, mystery, conflict and romance. She takes the...
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...
Saudi’s New Ministry of Culture a Surprise at the 58th Biennale
Steven O'Brien
Saudi’s New Ministry of Culture a Surprise at the 58th Biennale
It becomes harder for me to say anything new about Venice, even in...
Review | Henry Moore: Influences and Influenced at Connaught Brown
Henry Moore has had an insurmountable influence on contemporary art. A new exhibition at Mayfair gallery Connaught Brown — Henry Moore: Influences and Influenced...
Extract | Rosalind by Arifa Akbar
"Rosalind" by Arifa Akbar, extract taken from Tales of Two Londons: Stories from a Fractured City, ed. Claire Armitstead, Arcadia Books, London, 2019. Copyright...
Extract | Mnemic Symbols by Andrew Hodgson
The following is an extract from Andrew Hodgson's novel Mnemic Symbols (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019). For more information, visit Dostoyevsky Wannabe.
Andrew Hodgson
Mnemic Symbols
Two,
‘As I’ve told...
Fiction | The Interpreter of Dreams and Maladies by Mark Budman
Mark Budman
The Interpreter of Dreams and Maladies
I. Stick Figures in Paradise
The interpreter of dreams and maladies draws a stick figure with an orange crayon....
Interview | Johnnie Cooper | throe on throe
A new exhibition at Saatchi Gallery sees a major survey by the acclaimed British artist Johnnie Cooper. Spanning two galleries, throe on throe comprises over 50...
Fiction | The Bone Mole by Ed Cottrell
Ed Cottrell
The Bone Mole
———There was a little bone mole for sale, a carving of a mole made of bone. It caught my eye sitting...
Poetry | Coot by Iain Twiddy
Iain Twiddy
Coot
It didn’t need to be a big ripple
nudging its reed-nest for the overstep
to plop into the up-plump of the breast,
and the coot to...
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...
Extract | Flogging a Dead Clothes Horse by Thom Cuell
The following is an extract from We’ll Never Have Paris edited by Andrew Gallix (3:AM Magazine) — a new collection of fiction and essays...
Review | Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides & Days of Awe...
Jeffrey Eugenides’s latest short story collection is packed full of literary treats in case you haven’t read them when they originally appeared in The...
Review | Out of the Woods by Luke Turner
Out of the Woods, the first book by Luke Turner, begins with the breakdown of a five year relationship with his girlfriend, caused by...
Review | Phyllida Barlow at Royal Academy
I’ve collected driftwood from beaches for years. A particularly large piece hangs by the door to my house. Every time I enter, my fingertips...
Extract | The Governesses by Anne Serre tr. Mark Hutchinson
Anne Serre (tr. Mark Hutchinson)
The Governesses
‘One less,’ thought the elderly gentleman to himself as he folded up his telescope. This one wouldn’t be wriggling...
Essay | I Go Away To Talk To Myself by Sinead...
Sinead O'Brien
I Go Away To Talk To Myself
A trip has the same quality a Friday has. Everything ahead. It’s like having your back against...
Review | Faust at the Royal Opera House
Faust, the epitome of grand French opera and Gonoud’s masterpiece returns to Covent Garden in this fifth revival of David McVicar’s production. The opera...
Review | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 at The Photographers’...
Each room immerses the viewer in the artist’s expert documentation. We are encouraged to do more than just observe the photographs; the emphasis seems...
Review | Bindlestiff by Wayne Holloway
2036. In a ramshackle, backwater United States, Marine Corps vet Frank Dubois journeys from L.A. to Detroit, seeking redemption for a life lived off...
Review | WITCH by Rebecca Tamás
In her latest collection, WITCH, Rebecca Tamás explores the triumphs and oppression, the strengths and weaknesses, the power and the fears that generations of...
Review | One Thing by Xanthi Barker and The Prick by...
Xanthi Barker’s One Thing and Mazin Saleem’s The Prick are the second and third of the Open Pen Novelette series, coming after Shitstorm by...