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 October/November 2020 edition features Irenosen Okojie on Wise Women, Horatio Morpurgo on George Orwell and Sam Mills on Leonard and Virginia Woolf; as well as James Riding on the Great Shakespeare Jubilee and James Meredith on The Dibrugarh Express. Will Stone writes about a Paris Procession and Ged Pope on My London. Poetry by Shane McCrae, Jorie Graham, Rachel Long, Robert Hamberger, Glyn Maxwell, Maya C. Popa, Jessica Traynor, James Simpson, Daniel Hinds, Tim Craven and Peter Robinson. Short Fiction by Brandon Taylor, Alex Christofi, Niamh MacCabe, Nicholas Petty and Chloë Ashby. Reviews by Jonathan McAloon, John Phipps, Kate Simpson and Jessica Payn.