‘All of them were drunk’: Iain Sinclair on Freud, Bacon and the postwar Soho arts scene
August 2022
The Gold Machine review – Iain Sinclair confronts imperial ancestors in Peru trek
In the film of Sinclair’s book, the writer ends up rerouting the story of his great-grandfather’s expedition to the Amazon to its own psychogeographic musings
October 2019
'Sober but very immoral': What Victorian-era 'poverty maps' tell us about London today
A new edition of Charles Booth’s maps and research shows a London in which grinding poverty and wealth lived side by side. How different is today’s capital?
July 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 books about walking in Britain
Travelling on foot is a national obsession that has inspired a whole tradition of great writing, from Laurie Lee to Iain Sinclair
December 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 fictional booksellers
From Italo Calvino to Iain Sinclair and Alison Bechdel, literary retailers have been at the centre of some wild, dark dramas
September 2018
Book of the day
Living With Buildings: And Walking With Ghosts review – healthy building, healthy mind?
Iain Sinclair feeds us a rich diet of shrewd insights on contemporary living
February 2018
A Hero for High Times by Ian Marchant review – the forgotten man at the heart of the counterculture
The stories of Bob Rowberry, the first person to sell acid to RD Laing, provide a perfect initiation to four decades of beats, hippies, punks and freaks
September 2017
The Last London by Iain Sinclair review – an elegy for a city now lost
The 10 best non-fiction books about London
August 2017
The Last London by Iain Sinclair review – compelling and perceptive
In an amusing volume that draws a line under his enduring fascination with London, Sinclair confirms his standing as a modern-day Pepys
June 2017
Edith Walks review – a walk on the wild side
Edith Walks review – eccentric trek in pursuit of Englishness
April 2017
Strange Labyrinth by Will Ashon review – summoning the spirits of Epping Forest
A cast of highwaymen, psychics and joggers populates Will Ashon’s glorious foray into the London woodland
August 2016
Top 10s
Top 10 books featuring parks
Books blog
Drawn to the abyss: literature's fascination with homelessness
February 2016
Iain Sinclair and Standard Planets tell the stories of the London Overground
The Welsh writer’s collaboration with the music duo pays tribute to the social forces at play along the ginger line
October 2015
The 10 best ...
The 10 best walks in culture
By Our Selves review – disturbing journey through John Clare's poetry
June 2015
London Overground by Iain Sinclair review – a triumphant odyssey
Sinclair’s latest circular hike takes in the signs and wonders of the London Overground
