Sinclair McKay

Finally tired of London

Appalled by the capital’s dissolving identity, even Iain Sinclair is moving out. Should the rest of London follow?

issue 02 September 2017

  • The Last London

    Iain Sinclair

    Oneworld, pp. 306

Iain Sinclair is leaving London — like the croakiest of the ravens taking flight from the Tower. It is a proper blow: across five decades, he has been prowling the streets, part poet, part satirist, part prophet. Very few authors have fashioned a London more real than the one we see: Dickens, Conan Doyle, Patrick Hamilton, Angela Carter.

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