The Soviet Prom by Neil Herrington
Wednesday, 21 August 1968 The moment you and Slava enter the dining room, he throws himself on the first person he sees, kisses both of...
Coleshill by Fiona Sampson
Coleshill, Fiona Sampson, Chatto & Windus, 80pp, £10.00 (paperback)‘If only form
were language…’
(‘Dreamsongs’)‘We tremble,
feeling everything’s in motion,
and that feeling goes to and fro
in the world...
An Interview with Peter Stjernström
The London Magazine interviews Peter Stjernström, the Swedish author of Enn Mann and The Big Newsmaker and now The Best Book in the World,...
October by Lydia Towsey
OctoberPizza bruschetta gold dress Rioja
Autumn is here and Winter forgotten
Walking through town arm in arm with a lover
Moon in the sky and leaves good...
Pearls Exhibition, V&A
I’ve never really given it a thought – how a pearl is made, at least not until I went to the extensive Pearls exhibition...
Ibsen’s Ghosts
Ghosts, currently playing at Rose Theatre Kingston brings Stephen Unwin’s (who is also the creative director of this play) translation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1800s...
Five Years Ago by Manash Bhattacharjee
To Fady JoudahI was waiting at the platform
For a train to Calcutta
In...
Paintings From Prayer
Stephen B Whatley’s work is featured on our August/September front cover and on Thursday I went to his private preview entitled ‘Paintings From Prayer’...
Designing Antiquity by Stephanie Moser
Apart from its scholarly and visual merits, this study deserves recognition as the second book-length work about Owen Jones, the once-famous Victorian architect and...
An interview with Conor Patrick, author of Goodbye Crocodile
The London Magazine interviews Conor Patrick ahead of his debut collection, Goodbye Crocodile, being published.What was it that first got you into writing?It’s hard to...
The Daylight Comes With Me by John Darwin
Leave the world alone and close the door,
seal this room from everything outside,
nothing else exists but these four walls;
we have eight hours and five...
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...
An Interview with David Henry Hwang
The London Magazine interviews David H. Hwang, as his Obie Award-winning Pulitzer prize finalist play Yellow Face comes to Finsbury's new 'Park Theatre', showing now until...
Audrey Niffenegger at the Southbank Centre
I was lucky enough to be in the audience of Audrey Niffenegger’s talk on Monday 27th May. Here, she talked openly to the audience...
The Man Who Died Twice by Alexandra Maher
A fan-fiction crossover piece combining Julian Fellowes’ Downton Abbey and Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Set in the Christmas of 1920, as the episode preceding the...
The Problem with Paolo Sorrentino by George Hull
The work of Neapolitan director Paolo Sorrentino combines a compelling visual style with a unique sensitivity for psychological subtleties. The five feature-length films he...
The Veil by Manash Bhattacharjee
She walks past the wave
Of curious glances
An apparition eluding
Light and desire
Everything she hides from
Trembles in her body
She remembers the lures
In every street
But no street...
SYRIA by Ghayth Armanazi
SUFFER THE COUNTRY Suffer the curled up corpses of the tortured
Suffer the cluttered ranks of the bound and the beaten
Suffer the pleading eyes of those...
Child of Vengeance by David Kirk
Excerpt from Chapter OneThe battle was over, but still Kazuteru ran. He had duty to fulfil. The young samurai ignored the howling of his...
Child of Vengeance by David Kirk
Excerpt from Chapter One The battle was over, but still Kazuteru ran. He had duty to fulfil. The young samurai ignored the howling of his...
Poet in Delhi by Manash Bhattacharjee
Can you rinse away this city that lastslike blood on the bitten tongue?~ Agha Shahid Ali
Delhi,where parrots liftthe weight of tombs,poets offer daggersto deepen...
The Modern Eye – Edvard Munch exhibition at Tate Modern
‘Without anxiety and sickness I would have been a rudderless ship…’– E. Munch
At any given time of the year, somewhere on the continent, there...
Fragment of the Fringe: a Reflection. By Oliver Wood
The fringe, so say the mummers, has become over-commercialised in recent years. Too many agents, too much spin, a lack of government support, not...
Men at Work
Holland Park Opera: Tchaikovsky, Yevgeny Onegin and Verdi, FalstaffThe Merry Wives of Windsor is a very dull play indeed. We can be grateful for...