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The Arts and Culture Magazine
LONDON'S
AWARD-WINNING
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Chiara Alicia Fanconi
Feb 27, 20223 min read
SIMONE ROCHA - Queen of Swans
STRAND writer Chiara Alicia Fanconi reviews SIMONE ROCHA AW 22`s collection presented at London Fashion Week.
Isabela Palancean
Feb 9, 20223 min read
London Literature Festival 2021: Mieko Kawakami's Heaven
Centred on the expansive theme of friendship, this year’s London Literature Festival inaugurated Japanese writer’s Mieko Kawakami’s novel...
Maisie Allen
Jan 24, 20225 min read
London Literature Festival 2021: Creative Future Writers' Award
As part of the 2021 Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival, the organisation Creative Future hosted their annual Writers’ Award,...
Sakeena Haider
Dec 8, 20212 min read
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Modern Sleeping Beauty
One book that had me in a chokehold this year was My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (her name alone is engrossing)....
Majka Wankiewicz
Dec 3, 20213 min read
Common Ground: Friendships and London at the 2021 London Literature Festival
Of London, friendships and friendships with London. “Common Ground” with Caleb Azumah Nelson, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Naomi Ishiguro Image...
Jeanne-May Desurmont
Nov 2, 20214 min read
"Two Bodies Poured Into One": Reviewing The Vanishing Half
“Desiree and Stella, Mallard’s girls. As they grew, they no longer seemed like one body split in two, but two bodies poured into one,...
Maisie Allen
Oct 18, 20213 min read
Orla Gartland Celebrates Her Digital Adolescence in Debut Album, Woman on the Internet
Image Credit: Claire Kilcourse Irish songwriter Orla Gartland acknowledges her musical coming-of-age journey in the early YouTube era...
Aybike Ceren Kahveci
Oct 18, 20215 min read
Three Rooms: Carving Out a Space of Your Own
Narrated by an unnamed woman of colour, Jo Hamya’s novel explores this character’s tumultuous journey into employment following her short...
Joachim Nicolodi
Oct 15, 20216 min read
An Ass for the Ages: Reviewing 'The Golden Ass'
The Golden Ass, written in second-century Rome by the philosopher and author Apuleius, is one of the earliest novels in human history. It...
Catherine Burke
Oct 8, 20212 min read
Seasonless Fashion: Isabel Manns - UNDERWATER EDEN
Strand writer Catherine Burke reviews the Isabel Manns 'Underwater Eden' collection launch at London Fashion Week.
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