The London Magazine, Aug/Sept 2026
150 x 215 mm, 120 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 (arguably the first magazine), its pages have boasted the likes of Keats, Shelley, T.S. Elliot et al along the way.
Inside this late summer issue, find Alex Niven on the Sycamore Gap and cycles of decline, Dane Holt on Tony Harrison’s underappreciated prose, and Rosa Appignanesi on missing babies in fiction. Plus poetry by Wisława Szymborska, Leontia Flynn, Tim Scott, Courtney Conrad, Tom Nutting, Flora Elmi Beagley, Jordan Maly-Preuss, Róisín Leggett Bohan, Satya Bosman, Rachel Curzon, Hugh Dunkerley and Clara-Læïla Laudette.
Cover photograph by Lydia Lange