Great Expectations

How is London marking the 200th birthday of its most famous literary son?

We began this week with a great big gaping void: the very excellent London Word Festival has come to an end (though you can watch highlights here), and our nearly 40-day-long combination chocolate and carbon dioxide fast has left us, well, a bit snippy (we’ll …

The Guardian has a neat little slide show dedicated to the new Tate Modern extension. The flamboyant, highly theatrical and immensely complex 11-storey glass tower in the form of a spiralling stepped pyramid, or ziggurat, is destined to rise from the south-west corner of the …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tonight It isn’t Christmas without a Dickensian orphan boy made good, and here we have a discussion about the two greatest; Oliver Twist (did anyone …

I am the man from below. Current location: 15 feet below the forest surface, busy digging a tunnel… And so begins the blog from, suprisingly enough, The Man From Below. Since the new year, TMFB, real identity currently unknown, has been digging away under the …

We’ve already told you about the whole Get London Reading thing, but we just wanted to remind you as because even though many of the events have been and gone you can still vote for your favourite London book. Up until March 1st you can …

Londonist was saddened to hear the news of the death of Sir John Mills over the weekend. It’s difficult to think about the importance of British cinema without conjuring up an image of John Mills – as Captain of a submarine in We Dive at …