The Thousands

Sometimes waxing off your eyebrows or indulging in the odd S & M fantasy just doesn’t cut it when it comes to exploring the dark corners of your own psyche. So if your latest (mis)adventures, or that strange fixation that caused your last messy break-up are proving unsatisfying, you’re better to delve into their origins with San Francisco punk chronicler, V. Vale.

With the goal of documenting and navigating the fascinating world of all things subculture, RE/Search Publications provide all you need to know on everything from body modification phenomena to the wife of masochism herself, Wanda von Sacher-Masoch.

Think of it as an extended reading catalogue to the things you didn’t get to learn in high school, from the sexual perversion of Venus in Furs to the industrial music culture of Throbbing Gristle. Perhaps one fine day it’ll be a part of the school curriculum. We can only hope.