Literary London
Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson’s cartoons appear regularly in the Guardian, the Times, the Daily Mail and other publications. In 2001 he was appointed London’s first Cartoonist Laureate by Mayor Ken Livingstone, for which he receives one pint of beer per annum. His maps of literary London appeared in Granta 65.
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Interview | Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff & Alice Zoo
‘The camera records what’s in front of it, but that reality can be pre-arranged.’
Thomas Ruff speaks to Alice Zoo about light, Bernd and Hilla Becher and the essence of photography.
The Cottage
Isabelle Baafi
‘The scarlet stained my palm – / whether the blood of the berry or of the bird, / I couldn’t tell.’
A poem by Isabelle Baafi.
The Borrowed Hills
Scott Preston
‘The farm was in one of the fourteen green-purple wet deserts, in a dent six miles wide with its shoulders covered in scree and a rainy season that lasts twelve months a year.’
An extract from The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston.
Fast by the Horns
Moses McKenzie
‘First, a boy was meant to stop following him mama, then him papa, then at around fourteen him become him own man – that’s how Ras Levi say life was suppose to work.’
An extract from Fast by the Horns by Moses McKenzie.
Oak
Jamie McKendrick
‘When my father saw an advert in the Echo / for a big house at a peppercorn rent / he rang.’
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