Review | Four Quartets at the Barbican
T. S. Eliot was famously wary about artistic interpretations of his poems. In a letter in 1947 to Dale E.…
Fiction | Down the Marina by Daniel Kramb
Daniel Kramb Down the Marina At the city’s edge, half way into the marina, Ana-Maria sits on top of her…
Review | Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman by Charles Williams
Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman By Charles Williams Biteback Publishing, £25 In the age of the internet it is…
Archive | Coming to London IX by Christopher Isherwood
The following piece was first published in The London Magazine August 1956 Volume 3 No. 8 as “Coming to London…
Fiction | In Search of Scott by Will Kitson
Will Kitson In Search of Scott I remember the first time I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work. I was 20…
Review | Stanley Kubrick at The Design Museum
Bringing iconic films to the main screen, from Clockwork Orange to The Shining, Stanley Kubrick has contributed significantly to 20th…
Fiction | Are There More People Alive Than Dead? by Laurane Marchive
Laurane Marchive Are There More People Alive Than Dead? The phone rings. 5am. It’s your boyfriend. He is in New…
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…
Review | Tales of Two Londons: Stories From A Fractured City
Tales of Two Londons: Stories From A Fractured City, edited by Claire Armitstead, Arcadia Books, 2019, £9.99 It’s Saturday morning…
Review | Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Salt Slow, Julia Armfield, Pan Macmillan, 2019, pp.208, £12.99 (hardback) This electric, enthralling collection of short stories from Julia Armfield…
Review | A Map Towards Fluency & A Few Interiors
A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly, Carcanet Press, 2019, pp.112, £8.99 A Few Interiors, Rowland Bagnell, Carcanet Press, 2019, pp.64,…
Review | Days in the Caucasus by Banine & Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
Days in the Caucasus, Banine (translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova), Pushkin Press, 2019, pp. 288 (hardback) Crossing, Pajtim Statovci (translated by…
Review | Lee Krasner at the Barbican
Lee Krasner’s work was central in the proliferation of abstract expressionism in the United States. A new show at the…
Interview | Clayton Vomero | 3OHA
Kaleidoscopic is one of the words used to describe the work of Clayton Vomero, his narratives finding their flow not…
Interview | Donald Sultan
The acclaimed American figurative painter Donald Sultan currently has his first U.K retrospective at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London. Sultan is 68…
Fiction | Don’t Tell Father by Denisa Vitova
Denisa Vitova Don’t Tell Father —–My mother bought a new dress she didn’t necessarily need but which fit her tall,…
Extract | The Leaflets by Ferdous Sadat
The following poem is taken from the anthology Tales of Two Londons: Stories from a Fractured City, ed. Claire Armitstead,…
Review | My Enemy’s Cherry Tree by Wang Ting-Kuo
We don’t have to start if you’re not ready.’The epigraph on the first page of Wang Ting-Huo’s award-winning novel invites…
Fiction | Jane Campbell — Schopenhauer and I
Robots could help solve social care crisis, say academics
In the UK alone, 15,000 people are over 100 years of age and this figure will only increase. The robots will offer support with everyday tasks, like taking tablets, as well as offering companionship.
— BBC News, 30th January 2017
Review | Mnemic Symbols by Andrew Hodgson
It’s a familiar, yet uncanny feeling we all know; like waking up in a hotel you’re sure you’ve never stayed…
Essay | Heaney At Home by Simon Tait
Simon Tait Heaney At Home Seamus Heaney’s brother Hugh sums him up better than anyone. “Seamus’s feet never left the…
Review | The Governesses by Anne Serre, tr. by Mark Hutchinson
Briony Willis The Governesses The Governesses, Anne Serre, trans. by Mark Hutchinson, Les Fugitives, 2019, pp. 108, £10.00. (paperback) In…
Review | We’ll Never Have Paris ed. Andrew Gallix
“The failure of the English revolution… is all around us: in the Westminster constitution, in Ireland, and poisoning English attitudes…
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…
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