Kenny Pittock, ‘Twenty Nine Drawings of People On the Train’

What was a simple game to pass the time became an obsession amounting to 300 or so portraits, and counting. read more...

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist

Dan Clowes makes comic books that are perfectly suited to pet obsession and bedroom consumption. He pores over his drawings with a perfectionism that rivals... read more...

Making Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing

One thing I love about Los Angeles is the sheer fruitcake-iness of the place. Religious cults, diet gurus, pet psychologists, auras and fads. Few other... read more...

Offscreen issue #1

If you bask in the glow of a laptop/phone/other screen 16 hours a day, picking up Offscreen and stepping away from backlit surfaces is far easier to write... read more...

Rad Rides: The Best BMX Bikes of All Time

We all know someone that has been into BMX – be it our little brother or our single ‘cool dad’ uncle. Because these bikes have been carving... read more...

LoveWant issue #5

If you can get past the thick, matte pages that feel heavy and important in your hands, and the one thousand totally hot models (Julia Nobis, Emma Balfour,... read more...

Sometimes issue #2

As with issue #1, this edition of Sometimes is an ode to the perfectly-justified fetishism of Swedishness and Swedish tasefulness, wherever it is found.... read more...

Nathan Englander, 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank'

Hype, history and the Holocaust. All three weigh heavily in these eight new stories by American writer Nathan Englander, whose follow-up to 2008′s The... read more...

The WAH Nails Book of Nail Art

WAH Nails is in London, which is a little further than down the road to pop in and get did. You can put it on the list for your next trip North-Hem, or... read more...

The Plant Journal issue #2

They really haven’t beaten around the bush with the name (sorry!); this journal is all about plants. Okay, now shake the funk that comes from realising... read more...

Angry Man Magazines

Patrick Collins and his friend Greg run Angry Man Magazines, a bi-monthly magazine subscription service that sends you random titles. read more...

I Heart Melbourne

Even though I Heart Melbourne is written in French, it has enough big and bold photos of people and places I recognise that I’m able to read between... read more...

'This is the Same Ocean' issue #2

Sam Davison has put together the second issue of his riso-printed photo journal This is the Same Ocean. He’s launching it this Wednesday where it... read more...

Next Wave Festival 2012 Magazine

So, with the times and places cordoned off to the website calendar, Next Wave Magazine gives the festival’s participating creatives space to complement... read more...

Henry Rollins, 'Occupants'

Occupants gathers photos from Henry Rollins’s travels since 2003, alongside short stories, rants and essays. read more...

FAQNP - A Queer Nerd

FAQNP is the voice for gay geeks everywhere. Not a fashionable pose for dilettantes, this is REAL nerdcore: sci-fi (Dr. Who), comic books (not the arty... read more...

Pat Grant, 'Blue'

As evidenced by his illustrated account of the Cronulla race riots, Pat Grant is a comic artist who can approach unsettling arguments about nationalism... read more...

'Show Class' Magazine issue #5

Show Class ride motorcycles with style. Pictures and articles about vintage and custom bikes race from cover to cover inside this A5-sized mag. read more...

Romy Ash, 'Floundering'

Told through the eyes of a young boy, Floundering is the story of Tom, his older brother and his mother ‘Loretta’ on a road trip in ‘Bert’... read more...

Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Okay, this book is amazing. Last year, Will Oldham’s long-time friend Alan Licht sat down with him for a week and asked him about everything. read more...

Jay Howell, 'The Dark Wave'

The Dark Wave carries on with Jay’s love of all things nutso skinny rocker beer party woo, except now the rocker is a death metalhead and the motorcycle... read more...

Ed Sanders, 'Fug You'

Fug You is a fascinating road map to where folk, punk, peaceniks, beatniks, heroin, jazz, pot, speed, poetry, underground film, the underground press and... read more...

Lamia Ziadé, 'Bye Bye Babylon: Beirut 1975-1979'

Bye Bye Babylon: Beirut 1975-1979 covers territory most westerners only experience through hard-nosed news reports and political docos. Lamia Ziadé’s... read more...

An interview with Alain de Botton

In his most recent book, Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton takes up the heroic task of explaining to faithless heathens like me why we should appreciate... read more...