There’s more to this social movement than loving your body and feeling good, says author and fat activist Charlotte Cooper
Hackney-born author Stephen Thompson talks about his latest novel, set in the immediate aftermath of the 7/7 bombings
Brewers raise a glass to London’s craft beer and micro-brewing scene in a new documentary
Samuel Pepys, Herman Melville and Christopher Columbus among the authors of a fascinating compendium of travel writing, co-compiled by Travis Elborough
Promising animation by Bethnal Green director doesn’t discriminate with its criticism
Photographer Nicholas Sack captures a stark world of alienation and testosterone in Lost in the City
Shorts offering a snapshot of modern Britain are on at Hackney Picturehouse, the Ace Hotel and the Round Chapel in Lower Clapton
Valerie Brandes is the ‘Hackney girl’ publishing unheard voices ‘as cosmopolitan as our city’
Two authors spent a weekend in a Hackney square and wrote down everything they saw there in homage to an experiment by French writer Georges Perec
Two car thieves make an unusual discovery in short film starring Charley Palmer Rothwell and This is England’s Thomas Turgoose
A pamphlet first published by Centerprise explores working class political life in Victorian Hackney
Famous names including David Bailey and Benjamin Zephaniah talk about how dyslexia has enabled them to be creative and successful
