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Our October / November 2026 issue is out now.
Cover art by Auguste Herbin.
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'The agents of technocapital, into whose ranks Hassabis has been conscripted, imagine themselves as the new saviours of humanity, the new bringers of fire. Each imagines himself a little postmodern Prometheus. But Prometheus was punished.' – Joey Connolly
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You can read Joey's essay in our latest issue, alongside Kasra Lang on Dylan Thomas's time in Iran and Rowland Bagnall on flowers across art and literature.
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'At the end, you only have a handful. Five or six poems. That’s all Frost had, a couple of poems that people really can say, there you go. What are you doing the rest of the time?'
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Off the Page returns.
No phones.
No books.
Four poets reading entirely from memory.
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From our October / November issue, ‘White City Station’ by Rowan Ricardo Phillips.
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There's just one week left to submit to this year's Short Story Prize.
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'Beirut' is one of two poems by @georgievayani from our latest issue.
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To compare any new novel to Ulysses is always a bit unhinged but in this case it is justified… the fun Blakemore has with language is entirely Joycean. Read the full piece below
'The book's bathetic doubling between high and low, then and now, the world-historical and the fleeting, is remarkably well balanced, and recalls the linguistic ebullience and brilliance of James Joyce’s Ulysses.'
@lifeisnotanovel on Doom Painting: thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
'The book's bathetic doubling between high and low, then and now, the world-historical and the fleeting, is remarkably well balanced, and recalls the linguistic ebullience and brilliance of James Joyce’s Ulysses.'
@lifeisnotanovel on Doom Painting: thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
Read it in print alongside reviews of new work by Sigrid Nunez and a new biography of John Berger.
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Off the Page returns in just two weeks' time.
No phones.
No books.
Four poets reading entirely from memory.
Tickets here: thelondonmagazine.org/produc…
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I wrote about Dylan Thomas's 1951 trip to Iran. Little has changed 75 years on: the fight for oil, the immiserating sanctions, the naval blockade, the threat of invasion from the south, and the timeless claim that Iranians are irrational for objecting.
'He spends much of his letters from Iran begging his wife to forgive his various infidelities. What’s sometimes lost in this personal story is that he had arrived in Iran at an extraordinary time.'
@kasralang on Dylan Thomas in Iran: thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
There's only two weeks to go before submissions close for this year’s Short Story Prize.
The winning stories will be published in a future issue of The London Magazine.
Submit by midnight on Sunday 18th October: thelondonmagazine.org/short-…
'He spends much of his letters from Iran begging his wife to forgive his various infidelities. What’s sometimes lost in this personal story is that he had arrived in Iran at an extraordinary time.'
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A fascinating new essay by @kasralang on Dylan Thomas’s time in Iran in the winter of 1951 -- in the current issue of @TheLondonMag, and previewed here: thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
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Our October / November 2026 issue is now available for pre-order!
Cover art by Auguste Herbin.
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An absolute pleasure to review A. K. Blakemore’s epic/mad/mind-blowing novel Doom Painting for @TheLondonMag, available online here: thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
Reviews:
@lifeisnotanovel on Doom Painting by A. K. Blakemore (@GrantaBooks)
Aaron Labaree on John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton (@PenguinUKBooks)
@LucyThynne on It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez (@ViragoBooks)
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This National Poetry Day, read one of two poems by Jane Hirshfield from our latest issue.
Order the October / November issue for more poetry by Jane Hirshfield, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, William Cliff and others.
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Featuring:
@kasralang on Dylan Thomas’s time in Iran
Rowland Bagnall on flowers in art and literature
Joey Connolly on why reality is screaming
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Reviews:
@lifeisnotanovel on Doom Painting by A. K. Blakemore (@GrantaBooks)
Aaron Labaree on John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton (@PenguinUKBooks)
@LucyThynne on It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez (@ViragoBooks)
Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/produc…