King’s Review is an annual print magazine exploring politics, culture and everyday life. Our magazine can be found in independent book and magazine stores across the UK and beyond. We are based at Kings College, Cambridge.

Anyone can submit to King's Review. We are especially interested in publishing work from those who are often underrepresented in contemporary media. Please submit your pitch, abstract, full length essay, critique, interview or visual project below.

Buy print magazine

Scroll to view content

a

Essays

a

Pickled Moonbeams: the horticultural dislocations of a settler colony

Flight(lessness) and the fragility of extinction/evolution

Jonathon Turnbull & Adam Searle

From the fire: Grenfell, Activism and Government Accountability

Melissa Fielding

Britain was never a nation state. Brexit might make it one.

Poetics of the tangent: Dialect, translation, and the critique of linguistic ontology

Giancarlo Tursi

Bored senseless: Logan Paul and meme politics

Parental elegy: language in extremis

La Revo

Roseanne Webster

Dear Fiona,

Chris Prendergast

Ariana Grande is the world’s most confusing pop star

Jorge Pérez Jaramillo and the dystopian, utopian parable of Medellín

I want to Belieb

Indiana Seresin

A tribute to Moishe Postone, 1942 – 2018

The dazzling, dangerous charm of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

Of murder and memory: an unfinished story from post-war Ukraine

Tanya Zaharchenko

Everness – the art of being dead

Maria Tsilogianni

Torre Bela: The Portuguese Revolution

What Of The Centre-left? A Brief History Of ‘trumpism’

Wolfgang Streeck

Re-membering Europe: Nostalgia And The Refugee Crisis

“Just Run!”: On The Misunderstood Sport Of Race Walking

My Brother, George Best And Me

The Lonely Old Bitcoin Miner Touches Eternity Or, What Is A Peer?

Lana Swartz & Kevin Driscoll

Going in circles: Amanda Coker, world record cyclist

Fieldwork in Lyonesse: salvage ethnography before the anthropocene floods

Jonathan Woolley

The politics of happiness

François Fillon and the politics of regret

Chris Prendergast

International Women’s Day: female consciousness

Roseanne Webster & Libby Rainey

In defense of incomplete endings

Hipster post-factualism and the rise of the extremely real

Natalie Morningstar

Re-reading Trump’s Campaign Book “Crippled America”

The Need For A New Party, Redux

The New Libertarian

Jack Marley-Payne

Orwell on Patriotism

The Chicago Boys Now And Then

White Guilt, American Shame And Racial Violence: Chester Himes’ Plan B

“I Identify As A Black Woman”

A Defense of Museums

Looking for the coin in the haystack

Johannes Lenhard

Blurred lines in the german province

Katharina Tjart

Vocabularies of the economy

Where's the money?

Emerson and the poets

Written on the walls

Jennifer Chisholm

The speech

Chris Prendergast

“Why do they riot?”

Sebastian Jackson

Buy to let, and to accumulate

Dreaming about Paris

Johannes Lenhard

The peacock has landed

Charlie Artingstoll

Sor Juana: an icon of freedom

Fishing for fairness

Candyfloss for refugees

Jan-Jonathan Bock

‘Ecuador bans Bitcoin’! A monetary mix-up

Solidarity amidst disaster

The nasty party is back

Chris Prendergast

Home-less

Johannes Lenhard

When long-termism masquerades

Youthful indiscretions

Tobias Haeusermann

Good without god. An interview with Matthew Engelke

Johannes Lenhard & Jonas L. Tinius

Long-termism

Money is a technology (II)

Outsiders and insiders: reinventing solidarity in the baltimore uprising

Chelsea Gleason

Money is a technology (I)

Suspenseful encounters of the masochistic kind

Developmental utopia

Annabelle Wittels

Solidarity

Debt and disorder in Athens

‘Research’

Ledgers and law in the blockchain

Quinn Dupont & Bill Maurer

What is neo-liberalism? Part II

What is neo-liberalism? Part I

Bitcoin’s monetary bluff

On not going gentle

Felcia Nimue Ackerman

Sustaining hierarchy – Uber isn’t sharing

Francesca Pick & Julia Dreher

Leading and following at the ‘pink jukebox’

On the loss of a mother

Raffaella Taylor-Seymour

Strange behaviour

Neoliberalism, 1979-2008

Framing the debate. Architecture and photography

A Dark Knight is better than no Knight at all

On wellbeing

Bitcoin, utopianism and the future of money

Do you intend to die: Lauren Berlant on intimacy after suicide

On youth and sustainability in Bogotá

The scourge of caste

Happiness and aging: why things don’t look awful cold

African dawn

Silicon Valley might be sexist, but its feminism is not the answer

Frederike Kaltheuner

There will be blood: expecting violence in Egypt, 2011-2013

Samuli Schielke

To take without echo: a brief history of disappearance

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik

O mother, mother what have you done?

Speaking of African politics, without the politics

Annabelle Wittels

Co-operation

Patrick Bateson

We want free higher education: what our parents had

The allure of real work

What’s food got to do with it?

Tobias Haeusermann

Palestine and the slow burn of anti-colonial resistance

Lorna Finlayson & Clement Mouhot

A false intimacy: the policing of women’s body hair

Melisa Trujillo

Against the idea of ‘the cure’

On civility and academia

Norman Finkelstein

Between rhetoric and practice: domestic violence against women in the uk

Interviews

a

‘There have always been dissidents, in all times and places’: an interview with Dr. Priya Gopal

‘I don’t want to be a perfectly automated cyborg bitch’: an Interview with Lyra Pramuk

Perpetual screaming: an interview with Simon Jenkins

Aesthetics and politics of distraction: a conversation with Geeta Patel

This way madness lies: Mike Jay on madness

Mike Jay & Leila Kozma

Nationalism, Brexit and drones – a conversation with Neal Ascherson

‘Economy, happiness, and the good life:’ an interview with Edward F. Fischer

Johannes Lenhard & Jonas L. Tinius

Farewell, Neoliberalism: an interview with Wolfgang Streeck

Johannes Lenhard & Rebecca Liu

Age of extraction: an interview with Saskia Sassen

Doing the work: a conversation with Patti Smith

Alice Blackhurst

Living against everything: an interview with Mark Greif

Chris Townsend & Johannes Lenhard

It’s not a rigorous education – an interview with Fiona Millar

‘Do you really get to sit there?’ An interview with Steven J. Fowler

The Palestinian enclaves struggle: an interview with Ilan Pappé

Jacqueline Rose on women in dark times

Katrina Zaat & Ina Linge

An interview with Michael Herzfeld: cryptocolonialism, the responsibility of the social sciences and Europe

Johannes Lenhard & Raffaella Taylor-Seymour

Empathy after The Act of Killing

Rafael Dernbach

The elasticity of the artwork: an interview with Fabrice Le Nézet

An interview with Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal

Michael Proctor

Who will educate the educators? An interview with Gayatri Spivak

Crises and experimental capitalism: an interview with Nancy Fraser

Sarah Stein Lubrano & Johannes Lenhard

An interview with Alan Rusbridger

How academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation: a conversation with Sydney Brenner

Elizabeth Dzeng

Gilded birds interview: Thomas Adès

Playing with children, adults and Michael Gove: an interview with Patrick Bateson

Gilded Birds interview: Christopher Prendergast

Gilded Birds interview: Jane Haynes

Power and publication: an interview with Onora O’Neill

An interview with David Runciman

Academia and intellectual soulcraft: a conversation with Cornel West

Visuals

a

Grounded

How to levitate

Intimacy, Immensity: The Materialist Imagination

Reviews

a

Gradually moving back in time with him. A review of An Attic Full Of Trains

‘Crossing’: a new film portrays the harsh journey for a safe abortion

Feminist visions in “The Handmaiden” and “The Beguiled”

Natalie Morningstar

The sex life of objects: a romantic triste in the Sir John Soane Museum

Who’s afraid of the young asian girl? on Jenny Zhang’s “Sour Heart”

Second-hand: “Song of Solomon”, Toni Morrison

Hito Steyerl’s “Liquidity Inc.” and art under neoliberalism

Re-reading Trump’s campaign book “Crippled America”

Second-hand: “Report to Greco”, Nikos Kazantzakis

Zadie Smith’s “Swing Time” and the death of liberalism

The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers: A Politics Of Representation

Twin speak: reflections upon the doubles in lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks’

“A Pale Imitation: the new Turing biopic is a far cry from the fascinating truth”

Intimacy, love, and the body – rethinking Helmut Newton’s photography

Jan-Jonathan Bock

What form does laughter take? Disturbing reactions to Kara Walker’s newest piece

Jeremy Deller confronts the William Morris myth: problems of biography and image

Kim Clayton-Greene

Cinema of intimacy: Steve McQueen at Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo

You’ll find Virginia in the city. A review of Virginia Woolf: art, life and vision at the national portrait gallery

Georgina Parfitt

Palimpsestic townscapes: Gilbert & George’s scapegoating pictures

Aurélie Petiot

The politics of hidden images: display and The Gurlitt Collection

The Print Magazine

Issue 06: Flights

Surveillance over Palestine, Ineffective Governance, human and evolutionary flight.

Please contact us if you wish to purchase this edition.

Please contact us if you wish to buy a copy.

£ 9.00

Issue 05: Distraction

Please contact us if you wish to purchase this edition.

Please contact us if you wish to buy a copy.

£ 9.00

Issue 04: Extremes

Please contact us if you wish to purchase this edition.

Please contact us if you wish to buy a copy.

£ 9.00

Issue 03: Encounters

Please contact us if you wish to purchase this edition.

Please contact us if you wish to buy a copy.

£ 9.00

Issue 02

Please contact us if you wish to purchase this edition.

Please contact us if you wish to buy a copy.

£ 9.00

Issue 01

Please contact us if you wish to purchase this edition.

Please contact us if you wish to buy a copy.

£ 9.00