Live Poetry at Richmix: Tilt’s London Liming presents a Come Rhyme With Me special
This month sees Come Rhyme With Me (CRWM) hosts Deanna Rodgers and Dean Atta, take their culinary-themed performance poetry evening to Richmix. London Liming will take place on Thursday the 9th February, and will include music, food, dancing, ranting, raving, [...]
Sergio González Rodríguez’s The Femicide Machine and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
This is a fascinating book about the horrific femicides of Ciudad Juárez, a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The scale of the misogynistic violence is astounding – a recent Reuters article noted that: “Although official figures vary, the [...]
Dave Gibbons Talks to Play
Dave Gibbons’ and Alan Moore’s Watchmen is one of the few comic-strip texts commonly said to have crossed over into the realms of, what literary critics patronisingly call during coke-fueled trips into egocentricity; literary respectability. A tale of a superhero [...]
London Liming Spoken-word: Confessions of a Poetry Eater
It has been so long since I last heard spoken-word that, had it been a trifling incident in my life, I might have forgotten it. But cardinal events are not to be forgotten; and one such was London Liming, 9th [...]
Annie Potts on Chicken
This is the latest title in Reaktion’s Animal series, a fine example of what I’d like to dub “Ctrl-F scholarship”. Other titles include Fly, Vulture, Ant, Eel, and Whale – you can see that it’s an ambitious series. They’re fascinating [...]
Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy
Solomon Kugel has a dying mother, a sick child, a broken marriage, and an unaffordable mortgage. The shadow of the Holocaust hangs over the household like the bad smell in the vents that he can’t get to the bottom of: [...]
Live Poetry at Richmix: Tilt’s London Liming presents a Come Rhyme With Me special
This month sees Come Rhyme With Me (CRWM) hosts Deanna Rodgers and Dean Atta, take their culinary-themed performance poetry evening to Richmix. London Liming will take place on Thursday the 9th February, and will include music, food, dancing, ranting, raving, [...]
Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich
Discovered among his papers after his death in 2003, Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich was finally published in English this month, almost a quarter of a century after its composition in 1989. The novel recounts a disastrous holiday experience, tinged [...]
Sergio González Rodríguez’s The Femicide Machine and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
This is a fascinating book about the horrific femicides of Ciudad Juárez, a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The scale of the misogynistic violence is astounding – a recent Reuters article noted that: “Although official figures vary, the [...]
Why Write?! Poetry Competitions, that’s why!
Dear Writer, I wanted to write and thank you for writing. I do not yet have your poems, but I have them already by heart, and I will murmur them to myself in muffled sounds, until you speak some words [...]
Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet. Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven is the first major English collection of her work, and was edited by the Baroness’ biographer Irene Gammel [...]
The Coffee Table Book of Doom
Despite a snooty aversion on my behalf to things like the horrible histories series, I got quite caught up in this book. It’s a quick read with some fascinating titbits of information. The reader is taken on a vivifyingly [...]
Keston Sutherland’s Stupefaction
Keston Sutherland is a poet whose work is well respected in many circles. His Hot White Andy is a wonderful piece, and no swan song; he has since continued to produce thought-provoking and confrontational work. His literary output is well [...]
Sergio González Rodríguez’s The Femicide Machine and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
This is a fascinating book about the horrific femicides of Ciudad Juárez, a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The scale of the misogynistic violence is astounding – a recent Reuters article noted that: “Although official figures vary, the [...]
London Loves Issue 10
I’m sat editing London Loves in a bedroom that smells of urine. And no, I’m not visiting my great grandmother in a NHS care home. In fact, I’m sat in my own bedroom minutes away from my University campus after [...]
Video: LSE water balloon attack results in clashes
Amateur footage obtained by London Student captures some of the attack on the LSESU Palestine Society, which was holding a peaceful demonstration at the time. You can read the story in full here.
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Abs Hassanali
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Abs Hassanali. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Ross Speer
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Ross Speer. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
Interview with The Manic Shine
The Manic Shine are a hot upcoming band. The band’s leader, Ozzie Rogers, hails from the LSE but has chosen the music industry, rather than finance, as his chosen career path.
The second sabbatical interview: an excerpt
In their second interview with London Student, Clare Solomon, ULU President, and Viktoria Szmolar, ULU Vice-President, discuss the current state of the student movement. This excerpt focuses on the momentum of student protest after the Christmas break.