ART – ASHILE GORKY AT THE TATE MODERN

by Leo Kent

For an artist who paved the way for Abstract Expressionism in America, Armenian born Arshile Gorky should be more of a household name today. Hopefully this will be rectified in some small …

WRITER, ARTIST, WHATEVER – #1 ASPIRING NOVELIST

An occasional series where writers and creatives in different fields tell us how it feels.
99% perspiration, 1% representation
by Anna Clair
When I was seven years old, I remember being passionately jealous of Jayne Fisher, a child …

INTERVIEW – MAUREEN DUFFY

by Hannah Gilkes
Maureen Duffy (b. 1933 in Worthing, Sussex) is a notable contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and The Erotic World of Faery a …

INTERVIEW – LONDON SHITE EDITOR RUPERT ATATAT

As a high-profile magazine editor, many of our readers would be interested to know how you got to be where you are today?
Hard work, a nonchalance towards accepted norms of spelling and
grammar, and actimel.

Who …

FILM – The Prophet

by Jemimah Steinfeld

One of the most memorable lines in classic prison drama The Shawshank Redemption is when Tim Robbins’ character, Andy Dufrasne avers: “The funny thing is – on the outside, I was an honest …

INTERVIEW – LORIN STEIN ON LITERATURE

By Jacques Testard
Lorin Stein is a senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York City. He has edited, amongst other works, The Savage Detectives and 2666 (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in …

PEOPLE – THE DIARIES OF SOFIA TOLSTOY

by Cathy Porter
“I must marry now or never! A wife at any price!” Count Tolstoy wrote in l862 in his diary shortly before he proposed to eighteen-year-old Sofia Behrs. Fifteen years older than she was, …

PHOTO STORIES – Wall Don’t Run by Tod Wodicka

Part of the Photo Stories series co-edited by Clare Wigfall. Authors work from a photograph to produce a story of about 1000 words.

‘Have you seen it?’ I asked.
‘Why exactly are you calling, …

PHOTOGRAPHY – THE WHO, PROUD CENTRAL

by Tom Fraser

Colin Jones’ new exhibition of photographs invites viewers to hit the road, eavesdrop on recording sessions and share downtime with one of rock’s most influential acts. 

POETRY – Identical Fugitive Octopus by Annie Freud

Identical Fugitive Octopus
He drove to the edge of the city and parked the Subaru
in a long street he remembered from previous visits.
Nothing had changed. The small shop that sold
lace collars and haberdashery was still there
and …

ART – ASHILE GORKY AT THE TATE MODERN

by Leo Kent

For an artist who paved the way for Abstract Expressionism in America, Armenian born Arshile Gorky should be more of a household name today. Hopefully this will be rectified in some small …

A Bosnian Winter Night by Jozefina Cutura

Uncle Spaso’s dog Sila waded through the snow ahead of us. She would disappear for a while, only to emerge again right in front of us, happily wagging her tail. Uncle Spaso said the dog …

THEATRE – BLACK ALBUM, NATIONAL THEATRE

by Hannah Gilkes

In 1995 Hanif Kureishi looked back and saw the beginnings of a trend that was to prove prophetic. The Black Album follows the young Shahid from Kent as he starts university in London, …