The London Magazine, Feb/March 2026
150 x 215 mm, 98 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 includes poetry by Claudine Toutoungi, Austin Allen, Zachary Bos, Tim Liardet, Carl Phillips, Sim Pereira-Madder, Caitríona O’Reilly, Lisa Kelly, Stephen Kampa, Rachel Jeffcoat and Rory Attwood; Short fiction by Adrian Nathan West, Miruna Fulgeanu, Vivian Lord and David McGrath.
Plus: Zoe Guttenplan on invisible media, AI and the age of sameness; and Aled Maclean-Jones on New Labour and The Millennium Dome.
Cover by Zyrko