New short story and illustration publication gets to grips with grotesque human forms for its maiden issue
A packed programme of films about subjects ranging from a Cuban drummer to Judaism starts tonight at the Rio cinema
New documentary by Charlotte Ginsborg explores the soul of a changing street
Split between contemporary London and 19th-century West Africa, Butterfly Fish is a debut novel with an epic scope
A Hackney historian challenges conventional thinking about the ‘eureka’ moment
Camden, not Hackney, is the place with which the singer Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011 of alcohol poisoning, will always be associated.
But for Hackney-born director Asif Kapadia,
First time filmmaker Harry Macqueen scooped a Raindance nomination with Hinterland, a romantic road movie about navigating through your late twenties
Iain Sinclair’s latest book sees Hackney’s favourite psychogeographer walk the length of the London Overground to get acquainted with a version of the city about which he knew nothing
East End Film Festival to screen this moving tale of lipstick and counterculture starring the likes of Jonny Woo and Holestar
From Kimchi to Bibimbap, Korean cuisine is both ancient and on trend in East London today
19th-century Romantic writer John Clare once walked from an Epping Forest asylum to Northamptonshire without food or money. Andrew Kötting and author Iain Sinclair have made a documentary about it, starring Toby Jones and a straw bear
Food historian Gillian Riley looks at gastronomy in art down the centuries in her new highly illustrated book
