The UK's oldest cultural journal featuring the best original poetry, short fiction, cultural reviews and literary essays since 1732.

The London Magazine has been responsible for publishing some of the most significant literature in British history. From Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats to T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas and Doris Lessing, today it remains at the forefront with the best contemporary writing. Its writers on art have included John Richardson, Alan Bowness, Edward Lucie-Smith and Mel Gooding and it has featured original work by Graham Sutherland, Prunella Clough, Maggie Hambling and Frank Auerbach.

Latest issue

The London Magazine’s February/March 2021 edition features Lucy Jago on Jacobean London and Konrad Muller on Joseph Conrad. Lydia Wilson explores the Politics of Writing and Barbara Kiser on the Mysteries of Rome. James Riding writes on the East India Company, Vivian Gornick on Re-reading The Second Sex and Hermine Demoriane on Chile Revisited.

Poetry by Rachel Bower, Stephanie Sy-Quia, Ella Duffy, Suna Afshan, Dominic Hand, Lucy Mercer, Will Vigar, Sharon Black, Olivia Todd, Rosamund Taylor, Clodagh Beresford Dunne, Toby Campion, Rebecca Farmer and Nairn Kennedy. Short Fiction by Sharlene Teo, Sarah Leipciger, Patrick Cash, Lucy Thynne and Kate Simpson. Reviews by John Phipps, Madeleine Feeny, Katie da Cunha Lewin, Conor Carville and Alistair Lexden.