Inspired by the cafe culture of 1920s Paris, The Last Cafe Mag is a virtual space for artists and writers in Liverpool to convene and to share their work.

The Lost Generation, the creatives who descended on the French capital after the First World War, spent their time working and drinking in its cafes. These institutions have become artworks in their own right: artists who couldn’t afford their bills at La Rotonde paid in drawings; the columns inside La Coupole still sport paintings from students of Matisse; and there remains a place at the bar of La Closerie des Lilas for Hemingway, who went there to write without being interrupted.

Today, Liverpool is home to its own Lost Generation. They might not have fought in trenches, but if modernism was born of postwar despair, then something new is brewing in Liverpool in the age of the cost of living crisis. There’s no such thing as too many artists, and Liverpool has more than most cities. In Dale Street pubs and Baltic studios, creatives drink and share ideas and talk art - just like they did in the ‘20s. 

The Last Cafe Mag is an homage to the Merseyside Jazz Age. Drink it in.