'I hope my works, whether they are playful or cruel, can more or less point towards the ultimate proposition — absurdity.'

We spoke to Can Sun about his forthcoming show, Brusies, at Mandy Zhang Gallery.

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Great interview about London, precarity, and shorter novels. Especially liked: ‘Jennifer L. Knox, who I really like, has a line, that says: “One moment, you’re sobbing in your living room, the next, remembering there’s a sale at the Gap.” I try to embody that with my writing.’

'Our world is quite self-validating at the moment, and not always for the right reasons.'

We spoke to phoebe stuckes about her debut novel, Dead Animals, out today with Sceptre Books.

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'In A Woman’s Story, Ernaux more than fills de Beauvoir’s feminist and existentialist shoes. And as the family’s archivist, she is every bit the dutiful daughter.'

From our April/May 2024 issue, Lucy Thynne on Annie Ernaux's A Woman's Story.

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This is extraordinary. Everything just lands - really economic character creation, a furious energy powering those narrative steps, and a deeply humanist underbelly. A moving and pleasingly angular examination of grief.

In case you missed it, here's from Hadley Franklin's Falling, winner of the Desperate Literature Prize 2023, from our February/March 2024 issue.

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With the Tongue no.10, a poem by Ivars Šteinbergs (trans. Kintija Rogers), from our April/May 2024 issue OUT NOW.

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Ah! It made it to Ireland! The London Magazine 🐦‍⬛⬇️

'The petition has been refused,' he announced. 'You may go.'

From the archive, fiction by Franz Kafka.

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With less than a month to go until #AllThatGlitters hits shelves, get an insight into this dizzying, audacious story by tuning in to The London Magazine podcast this Friday 🔊

All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield is out 2nd May
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🚨 ONE DAY LEFT to enter our Poetry Prize 2024 🚨

In case you missed it, here's Pacifica Goddard on the Hetch Hetchy valley from our February/March 2024 issue.

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A timely reminder that there's just TWO DAYS left to enter this year's Poetry Prize. What are you waiting for?

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🚨 NEWS KLAXON 🚨

We're pleased to announce a one week extension for our Poetry Prize 2024. Entries are now open until the 10th of April. Good luck!

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PRIZE INTERVIEW

we chat with megan mcdowell about translation and reading short stories!!

Terry Craven talks to Megan McDowell, one of the judge's for this year's Desperate Literature Short Story Prize.

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Look at that lovely typesetting. Get your own copy from The London Magazine but for a taster, my story is online:
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