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dec-jan-2026

The London Magazine The London Magazine

The London Magazine, England's oldest literary periodical, presents an eclectic mix of poetry, short fiction by TLM Short Story Prize 2025 winners, and essays on diverse topics like writing as torture and dementia, with a cover by Tom Johnson.

Published December 2, 2025
Title Type Published
Colm Tóibín: Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941 Who​ was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T.S. Eliot American? Or was it... Article 1mo ago
Lavinia Greenlaw: Two Poems OublietteIn the years of dark listeningto what lay between the seen and the saidI might catc... Article 1mo ago
Anna McGee: At the Palazzo Strozzi Faced with a parade of flushed Madonnas and anguished Christs, it would be easy to think tha... Article 1mo ago
Michael Wood: At the Movies Most of the characters in Marty Supreme believe their lives are a kind of movie, and when a... Article 1mo ago
Michael Kulikowski: New Man on the Make Trying to psychoanalyse historical figures is rarely productive, but Cicero was a type we ca... Article 1mo ago
David Runciman: Calling Dr Jekyll Normally, being revealed as a hypocrite is kryptonite for a politician running for office. B... Article 1mo ago