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The London Magazine

Literature

Presents fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews with an eclectic and intelligent approach in England's oldest literary periodical.

10 issues
Title Type Published
Colin Burrow: Stink of Gin What do we mean​ when we call someone a ‘character’? It’s often a way of indicating that a p... Article 2mo ago
Vadim Nikitin: Among the Private Spies Why was Steele’s dossier, alleging collusion between Trump and Putin, so shoddy, and why, de... Article -
LRB 45s: Poetry on vinyl Why is theLondon Review of Booksputting out records? Article -
Tom Johnson: Save My Beer Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistenc... Article -
Close Readings 2026 On the Close Readings podcast, longstandingLRBcontributors explore a literary period or them... Article -
Martha Sprackland: Dark Night In the middle of a dark night,restless, with bright love burning– Oh, fortunate delight! –I... Article -
Tony Wood: At MoMA Lam referred to a ‘desire to include in my painting all the transculturation that had occurr... Article -
James Butler: Am I perhaps in Italy? For all its various forms of sophistication, the ultimate motive of gay history is often a s... Article -
Ferdinand Mount: Pavilion of Heaven Raffles survives, and it’s not just the verve and breakneck pace of the stories. What captiv... Article -
Tom Crewe: Men Watching Men If we imagine Gustave Caillebotte’s paintings as depending on what we might call a ‘cruising... Article -
Amjad Iraqi: Short Cuts It’s no surprise that Operation Roaring Lion (Israel’s name for its campaign) and Operation... Article -
Patricia Lockwood: Supersensual Ear ‘The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can on... Article -