Monocle Top 25 Most Liveable Cites
You can never underestimate the stupidity of majority opinion – value judgements are far better. God knows we make a living out of them here at Right... read more...
Canvas Magazine
Canvas Magazine is the love child of a fashion fanatic and her design savvy boyfriend. Straight out of Le’Brisbane, Canvas covets high-fashion and... read more...
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead
Jeffrey Eugenides knows about love. Dave Eggers, the ‘Bono of lit’, knew that Jeffrey knew about love, and asked him to compile a book of love... read more...
"i used skate once" zine
Hey kids, yep – if you haven’t noticed it’s annual ‘skate once’ time again. Personally, skateboards have only ever been a... read more...
Book Of Secrets
Anais Nin once said, "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery, there is always more mystery." So, with that... read more...
Tales From Outer Suburbia
If the word ‘awesomest’ was an illustration (or even a word) then it would be illustrated by Shaun Tan. Tan is the king of Australian book... read more...
Last Drinks - Quarterly Essay
June marks the one-year anniversary of the Northern Territory intervention, a Howard government initiative (and still supported by Rudd’s Labor we... read more...
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
If you would say you love reading about sad people not expressing their feelings properly, what you’re really saying is that you like Canadian fiction.... read more...
Bigfoot: I Not Dead
Okay, enough mucking around with frivolous books. Sometimes you’ve got to knuckle down and improve your life with some serious, brow-straining, “real... read more...
The Story of Forgetting
Ah, books; the perfect Mothers’ Day present. In the eyes of the recipient, they make you look intelligent, thoughtful, and they’re easy to... read more...
Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?
Have you heard of Thomas Kohnstamm? That’s ok, most people haven’t. But get this, he gave up a successful Wall Street career and stable relationship... read more...
Girls Like Us issue 7
How far does your lesbigay folk memory stretch back?Direct out of Amsterdam since 2005, the founding editors of Girls Like Us havecreated a wonderful contemporary–er–rag... read more...
Philosophy in the Boudoir
Fourteen inch penises and philosophy; not your usual reading fare, but, then again Marquis de Sade’s erotic classic is not your usual book. If you’re... read more...
Tropical Hot Dog Night
Why does the word eclectic get bandied around so much? Does everything that’s even slightly diverse have to be considered eclectic? In light of this... read more...
Beneath the Roses
Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses reveals his elaborately choreographed, large-scale photographs which blur the line between cinema and photography.... read more...
Blogger Beware: the Goosebumps Blog
Between 1992 and 1997 R.L Stine made publishing history. His horror novels for children were listed as the fifteenth most challenged books of 1990-1999.... read more...
Short
Along with sucking on Lego and counting down the Rocket Clock, defacinga humble colouring book was once a 4-year-old rite passage. A rite thatseems to... read more...
Monocle
Birthdays are good for you. They must be because the people who have the most birthdays live the longest. So it is with unreservedcelebration that we congratulate... read more...
un Magazine
It seems it’s a real challenge to write about art without getting high on your own cultural superiority. But the writers of un Magazine have always... read more...
Hamburger Eyes
I think deep down we all like to believe that we are photographers. We get the digital camera out every couple months, wave it around to get some weird... read more...
My Birthday Party: a chronicle of artworks and life, by Martin Bell
“But it’s not a movie, it’s just my stupid life.”In Martin Bell’s phenomenal new book (already named “the most awesome... read more...
i-D Magazine - February 2008
February is when i-D puts an issue together just for the boys. This one is packed with menswear editorials from trench coats to pyjamas, and interviews... read more...
Arthur Magazine
LA-based Journalist Jay Babcock launched Arthur Magazine as a bi-monthly independent counterculture street-press in 2002. Since its inception, Arthur has... read more...
New York Noise
1978 New York was a very different place. Junkies, trannies, punk bands… junkie tranny punk bands.New York Noiseshowcases the whole flea-ridden scene... read more...