The London Magazine, Catalan Issue 2026
152 x 215 mm, 128 pages
London, UK
Six times a year since 1954
Editor: Steven O’Brien
A succession of six publications have held the title The London Magazine dating back to 1732, making it England’s oldest literary periodical. Originally founded to rival the Gentleman’s Magazine, its pages have boasted the likes of Keats, Shelley, T.S. Elliot et al along the way.
Its current iteration—‘eclectic in taste, promiscuously interested and unapologetically intelligent’—publishes the best writing from London and beyond, split into fiction, poetry, essays and reviews.
This issue focuses on Catalonia, with poetry by Gemma Gorga, Carles Dachs, Míriam Cano, Mireia Calafell, Adrià Targa, Eva Baltasar, Laia Llobera, Anna Montero and Antònia Vicens; Short fiction by Sergi Pàmies, Irene Pujadas, Pol Guasch, Quim Monzó and Mercè Rodoreda.
Plus: Marina Garcés on Catalan flags and nation states, Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà on the advent of photography and documenting the dead, Rowan Ricardo Phillips on the Catalonian ideology of ‘seni’ and ‘rauxa’, and Raül Garrigasait on Hegel and thinking as a gesture.
Cover: ‘Facing Sagrada Familia’, by Carla Pérez Vas, 2025