Essay Competition 2018 — Winners Announced!
First of all, a huge, huge thank you to everybody who shared and entered this year’s essay prize! Though it…
Review | Rough Trade Books | Series 3
The recently-launched Rough Trade Books imprint has been releasing pamphlets at a prolific rate since the summer of last year,…
Interview: Adriaan van Heerden — Unreal City
Adriaan van Heerden is an artist and photographer whose work has been exhibited in London, Barcelona, Kyoto and Singapore, and…
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…
Interview | Amy Sackville
Back in March at the London Book Fair earlier this year, Vanessa Wheeler sat down with the author Amy Sackville…
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…
Fiction | The Mercedes by Anna Kavan
For some reason taxis are always scarce in my district. Late on a wet night, the few there were would certainly be engaged, if their drivers weren’t already sitting comfortably at home in the warm. So I was worried about getting one for M, who’d looked in earlier in the evening on his way to visit a patient. He’d seemed quite happy talking about the wonderful big Mercedes he was going to buy as soon as he had enough money, and the wonderful time we were going […]
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…
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…
Review | Charlotte Prodger and Forensic Architecture — The Turner Prize Exhibition at Tate Britain
In The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, Allucquére Roseanne Stone discusses how our…
Essay | The Bazooka Girl — A Note On Anna Kavan by Rhys Davies
If it is possible to concentrate the nature of a person’s life into a brief sketch, then that of Anna Kavan is conveyed perfectly in her story Julia and the Bazooka, which seems to me a most symmetrical example of the art by which this obdurately subjective writer chose elements of her life and transformed them into something rich and strange and basically true. Written a year or so before her death in 1968, in a sense she even foresaw her end in this story […]
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…
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…
Review | Krzysztof Gil: Welcome to the Country Where the Gypsy has been Hunted at l’étrangère
On view at l’étrangère gallery in East London is the first ever UK solo exhibition by the Polish Roma artist…
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…
Review | Summer and Smoke at The Duke of York’s Theatre
Briony Willis Summer & Smoke A poetic vision of human nature and our existential struggle to forge the middle ground…
Poetry | A Series of Ekphrastic Poems on Eileen Agar’s Marine Object by Suzannah V. Evans
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, editor, and critic. The following series of poems was inspired by a visit to…
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…
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…
Review | Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings — Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The first thing that you see as you enter the Virginia Woolf exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum is a photograph…
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…
Review | Glad I Did It — Christina Reihill at Bermondsey Project Space
Made up of three L-shaped levels, Christina Reihill’s Glad I did it is an invitation into the mind and last…
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…
Interview | 2018 Short Story Prize Judges!
With only a few weeks remaining for our Short Story Prize for this year, we thought we would catch up…
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