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 | Amy Sackville
Back in March at the London Book Fair earlier this year, Vanessa Wheeler sat down with the author Amy Sackville to ask her about...
Review | The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe
The scientific language used by doctors to describe cancer—the uncontrollable growth of a single cell—is often mystifying and alienating. Can the experience of cancer...
Essay | Living in London: Highgate by Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban is an award-winning writer, author of among many others, 1974's Soft City, an early classic of psychogeographical urban writing. In February 1970...
Fiction | The Mercedes by Anna Kavan
Anna Kavan (name at birth Helen Woods) is most famous for the psychological, otherworldly fiction of Asylum Piece (1940) and Ice (1967), and was...
Review | Space Shifters at the Hayward Gallery
An unmitigated treat if you love conceptual art installations and sculptures, SPACE SHIFTERS features twenty artists exploring our perception of space and 'optical' minimalism.
Spanning...
Review | Hansel and Gretel at the Royal Opera House
The operatic Christmas mainstay Hansel and Gretel, by Humperdinck, makes a long awaited return to the Royal Opera House; it’s first time since January...
Review | Charlotte Prodger and Forensic Architecture — The Turner Prize...
In The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, Allucquére Roseanne Stone discusses how our consciousness is altered by...
Essay | The Bazooka Girl — A Note On Anna Kavan...
The following piece is taken from The London Magazine, February 1970. It was written by Rhys Davies, a close friend of Anna Kavan's, and...
Essay | The Wild Side of Town by Alexis Self
There are millions of miles of Montessori walls filled with quotations about the virtues of sharing. But you don’t want to get to your...
Interview | Trate | Emotive Brutes
Canadian artist Trate is causing a stir in London’s art world, and this will intensify next year when he holds his first U.K...
Review | Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele at the Royal Academy
In chapter 5 of Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities the protagonist Ulrich sets about restoring a house he has just bought:
Review | Krzysztof Gil: Welcome to the Country Where the Gypsy...
On view at l’étrangère gallery in East London is the first ever UK solo exhibition by the Polish Roma artist Krzysztof Gil. Entitled Welcome...
Review | Shitstorm by Fernando Sdrigotti
Shitstorm, Fernando Sdrigotti, Open Pen, 2018, £4.99
Among four equally alluring others, Open Pen’s new series of “novelettes” features Fernando Sdrigotti’s latest story Shitstorm, which...
Review | Summer and Smoke at The Duke of York’s Theatre
A poetic vision of human nature and our existential struggle to forge the middle ground between body and soul. After writing his (in)famous A...
Poetry | A Series of Ekphrastic Poems on Eileen Agar’s Marine...
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, editor, and critic. The following series of poems was inspired by a visit to the exhibition Virginia Woolf:...
News | London’s BIG READ 2019 Shortlist
Last night saw the launch of London's BIG READ 2019, with the shortlisted authors announced last night at an event at LIBRARY on St...
Flash Fiction | Never Fall For That by Rebecca Lilly
"Clarify your intent," — Lama Chopra, our
meditation teacher, rang the bell for us to
sit — "the Reaper was once an old friend."
My...
Review | Now, Now, Louison by Jean Frémon
Now, Now, Louison, Jean Frémon (translated by Cole Swensen), Les Fugitives, 2018, pp.115, £12.00
Now, Now, Louison, originally published in French as Calme-toi, Louison in 2016, is...
Review | Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings —...
The first thing that you see as you enter the Virginia Woolf exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum is a photograph of Woolf’s writing desk....
Review | Death and Other Holidays by Marci Vogel
Death and Other Holidays, Marci Vogel, Melville House, November 2018
Award-winning writer, poet and translator Marci Vogel is the author of the poetry collection At...
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 | Salvador Dali At Home
Salvador Dali At Home, Jackie De Burca, Quarto, 2018, pp. 176, Hardcover, £25
Salvador Dali at Home is a book that seeks to unveil the places...
Review | Exposure by Olivia Sudjic
Exposure, Olivia Sudjic, Pensinsula Press, 2018, pp. 127, £6
Exposure, the new book by Olivia Sudjic, elegantly dissects the multi-layered web of anxieties particular to the...