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'I hope there is something just beyond the purview of my language that goes further than just wanting to be a woman and not always having been one.' New short fiction by Beth (please give me attention) 🏳️‍⚧️ Read the full story here: thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-anywhe…

'I don't know how you can write fiction without drawing from life. I don't know how fruitful an inquiry or avenue that is.' Zadie Loft speaks to Michael Amherst about his debut novel, The Boyhood of Cain (Faber Books). Read the full interview here: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-the-…

‘The phrase “the end of print” is a sales tool for the digital world.’ We had magCulture founder, Jeremy Leslie, on our podcast this month to talk all things magazine and print culture. Listen to the full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/6wbyq5…

ICYMI, we had Jeremy Leslie on our podcast this month to finally lay to rest the 300-year-old rivalry between The London Magazine and its Clerkenwell-based magazine publishing rivals. Listen to the full episode here: thelondonmagazine.org/podcast-jeremy…

'I don’t believe either of us works without (in the metaphorical sense of the word) a certain distancing.' An interview with Christopher Le Brun and Charlotte Verity about showing their work together for the first time. Read it here: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-left…

'The modern novel has been grounded in a relationship with other texts – a process that generative AI now seems to be accelerating.' Simon Okotie on the future of the novel (Melville House). Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/guide-a-london…

I’m so excited to be editing this issue with tim tim cheng 🐸 (she/they) and sohini ✨ Get your poems ready! And pls do spread the word. Submissions are open till the end of the month 💫💙

'I wanted to meditate on the idea that not all experiments are successful.' Zadie Loft spoke to Harriet Baker, author of 'Rural Hours' (Allen Lane) and winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (Young Writer Award). Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-text…

‘The scarlet stained my palm – / whether the blood of the berry or of the bird, / I couldn’t tell.’ ‘The Cottage’ by Isabelle Baafi. granta.com/the-cottage/

THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS is officially published today. A gift to myself, and hopefully, to you. May it fly, may it soar. So much love for my people who showed up and showed out—and to the new connections and fellowships this book is bringing into my life. 1/2

Our April / May 2025 issue is now available for pre-order! Cover image by SONY World Photographer of the Year 2023, Edgar Martins. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/single…

Reviews: Guy Stagg on Flesh by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape); Jack Barron on Electric Dreams at Tate Modern; Zadie Loft on Universality by Natasha Brown (Faber Books); and Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on Ithell Colquhoun. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/single…

'The reason I want to write novels rather than philosophy is that I want whatever point the novel makes to have a kind of undertone of disagreement with itself.' Benjamin Markovits in conversation with Jamie Cameron: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-the-…

Only 4 DAYS LEFT before submissions close for this year's Poetry Prize! Enter here before midnight on Monday, 31st March: thelondonmagazine.submittable.com/submit/316165/…

ICYMI, we had Mark Bowles on the podcast this month to talk about his debut novel, All My Precious Madness (Galley Beggar Press), and finding the unexpected or unfamiliar in the writing process. Listen to the full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/4UhooA…

Our April / May 2025 issue is OUT NOW! Cover image by SONY World Photographer of the Year 2023, Edgar Martins. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…

Reviews: Guy Stagg on Flesh by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape); Jack Barron on Electric Dreams at Tate Modern; Zadie Loft on Universality by Natasha Brown (Faber Books); and Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on Ithell Colquhoun. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…

Next month, I’ll be gracing the Out-Spoken stage alongside other great artists! And I’m super pumped. Come join us! 💥

My book is officially published today! Many thanks to everyone who came to the launch last night - your presence and kind words made it so special. Huge thanks also to the entire Faber Books team and the London Review Bookshop for hosting. Copies available here: faber.co.uk/product/978057…

'To explain meanings that are already known goes against the most important demand of literature.' From 1965, Alain Robbe-Grillet on realism: thelondonmagazine.org/archive-from-r…