The Art of Daniel Clowes : Modern Cartoonist
Dan Clowes makes comic books that are perfectly suited to pet obsession and bedroom consumption. He pours over his drawings with a perfectionism that rivals... read more...
Making Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing
Los Angeles. Few cities in modern times are surrounded by so much mythology, and misinformation. One thing I love about Los Angeles is the sheer fruitcake-iness... read more...
Boat Magazine issue #3, London
Here is a concept you wish you’d thought of: move cities twice a year, to create a publication in which the city you’re in depicts itself. Boat... 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 is a tome to the perfectly justified fetishism of Swedishness and Swedish tasefulness, wherever it is found. But a quick disclaimer... 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...
The WAH Nails Book of Nail Art
WAH Nails is in London. You can put it on the list for your next trip North, or you can buy the WAH Nails Book of Nail Art, in which Sharmadean shares... read more...
Henry Rollins, 'Occupants'
Occupants gathers photos from Henry Rollins’s travels since 2003, alongside short stories, rants and essays written by Rollins. Inspired by the images,... read more...
FAQNP - A Queer Nerd
Dear Magazine Editors – Geek Chic is bullshit. This periodically recurring trend where a bunch of gorgeous male models don glasses and cardigans,... 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...
Nicholas Carr, 'The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Read, Think, and Remember'
Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains tells us how the internet got into our lives, and beat up the way we think,... 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...
Wilfred Brandt, 'Cannonball'
Wilfred Brandt’s debut novella Cannonball is about Rick and Christina. Back in 1994 Rick and Christina used to get stupidly high and sing along to The... read more...
Propaganda and Holy Writ of The Process Church of The Final Judgment
This book reprints the magazine a ’60s apocalyptic religious cult sold on street corners – wearing all black and capes – to support... read more...
Darren Sylvester, 'Compass Point'
Melbourne artist and musician Darren Sylvester‘s interest in Compass Point Studios was sparked by reading liner notes to a number of loved albums... read more...
Chris Flynn, 'A Tiger in Eden'
The hero of A Tiger in Eden, Billy Montgomery, has just escaped the violence of Ireland in the mid ’90s. He has spent most his life blowing shit... read more...
Teen Witch, 'The Crush Issue'
Welcome to the future. It’s 1994 here and gender (socially defined differences between men and women) doesn’t exist. In Teen Witch Mag –... read more...
Justin Heazlewood, 'The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries'
This collection of tour diaries shows Justin Heazlewood at his most remorseless. Guess who he’s picking on this time? Justin Heazlewood. Sure, there... read more...