Ghostpatrol, 'Future Notes Volume II'
Navigating the spectrum of street art – both in its natural habitat, and gallery or print form – its always reassuring to encounter artists... read more...
Teen Angels
Since 1979, Teen Angels has been a testament to the fact that some very real people live lives that are very different from ours. Cover-to-cover, each... read more...
Alexander Girard
That commonplace ‘what do you do?’ question can be as tedious to answer as job titles can be ill-fitting and unnecessary. Alexander Girard... read more...
Little Joe No. 3
Little Joe issue 3 is an inspiring jolt of same-sex creative juices as they apply to the film world. But straight folks needn’t feel uninvited,... read more...
A short interview with Max Lavergne, SMACs host
They added Best Eats this year. What should be the next category added? Best Fats, I would imagine (because of the alphabet). It’ll be a close match... read more...
An Open Letter To David Sedaris
We first encountered you when one of our good friends gave us SantaLand Diaries as a Christmas pressie. Despite being a totally predictable festive gift,... read more...
Saul Bass: A Life In Film & Design
Christmas morning, my mum yelled into the kitchen, “who’s Saul Bass?” I fumbled a response, followed by an envious, “did you get... read more...
Tell Mum Everything Is Ok issue #5
Publishers of Tell Mum Everything Is OK, Editions FP&CF, call it a “participative fanzine.” That’s only slightly less true of issue... read more...
PORT issue #4
PORT is now in its fourth issue. I read the first and the second, and by the third it was looking sketchy, but this fourth issue is so good it’s... read more...
Captain Goodvibes, My Life as a Pork Chop 1973-1981
Between 1973 and 1981 Tony Edwards worked for Australian surfing magazine Tracks. According to reports, what he did there was “embrace the worst... read more...
Sam Wallman, ‘Being Born Is Goin’ Blind’
When you think of political cartoons you probably imagine ‘plumb-pudding’, Brant or a weasel with the face of Tony Abbott, but the hundred-strong ... read more...
Ala Champfest Magazine issue #4
At 258 pages, Ala Champfest Magazine is a genuine heavy weight in magazine terms and trying to summarise it for this article is like trying to download... read more...
Dennis Cooper, ‘The Marbled Swarm’
If you’ve read complex academic writing and thought, “This wouldn’t bore me to tears if instead of abstract theoretical concepts it was densely packed... read more...
Jack Kerouac, ‘The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel’
Someone dug up Jack Kerouac’s unpublished first novel, bundled it up with Kerouac miscellany and sent it to the printers. It’s called The Sea is My... read more...
Arthur Pollock
Jesse Pollock has published art books by photographer Sandy Kim, illustrator Jay Howell, oh and his dad. But his father is Arthur Pollock, a long-time... read more...
‘Head Full of Snakes’, issue #1
Head Full of Snakes is like the bridge between two worlds. It’s a carefully crafted deluxe fanzine of sorts, printed using the riso on pulpy, rough paper.... read more...
Mark Drew, TUHG LIFE
What this is, is a pack of Pacs drawn by kids all over the world who’s utter idolisation of Tupac usually dominates their skill level. But the intention... read more...
Odd Future, 'Golf Wang'
What’s rad about Odd Future and probably what’s got “old” white dudes like me interested is they broadcast that vibe worldwide;... read more...
Miranda July, 'It Chooses You'
Miranda July’s new book, It Chooses You, is a procrastination project she wrote while making her most recent film, The Future. While It Chooses You... read more...
Daniel Woodrell, ‘The Outlaw Album’
Woodrell, best known as the author of the Oscar-nominated Winter’s Bone, returns to the Ozarks where his desperate characters fight crushing poverty... read more...
Zine review, 'The Life and Times of Mavis McKenzie' #42
Octogenarian lady of letters Mavis McKenzie came out of zine retirement especially for Sticky Institute’s Feed The Animals fundraiser and the result,... read more...
Haruki Murakami, '1Q84'
This is an incredibly long, incredibly good novel, 1Q84. It’s possible that Murakami uses the term ‘ripe breasts’ a little too liberally... read more...
Women of Letters
Curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire, Women of Letters: Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence is a collection of letters penned by some of... read more...
Daniel Clowes, ‘The Death-Ray’
What’s so compelling about The Death-Ray is that in 42 pages it manages to cover much of the ground that Jonathan Lethem’s 500-page Fortress of Solitude... read more...