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By golly, revered design blog It’s Nice That also penned a little review of our latest issue with Fatima Al Qadiri, including a short interview with our humble selves on why, what and when. Thank you. Sigh.

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We’re not sure why our latest issue is only now arriving in stores in London, but we do love the word ‘astute’. We love it even more in combination with the word ‘typically’. Is that really us they are talking about? And why is that tea only lukewarm again? Thank you magCulture for the kind [...]

THUMBS UP

Thank you magCulture for the higely enjoyable and inspiring day that was The Modern Magazine 2016 last week in London. Read some more about it over at magCulture or a review on the blog of WeTransfer. Or keep it with David Shrigley: thumbs up!

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Kind words over at magCulture on our new issue mono.kultur #40 with Edmund de Waal. Imagine us blushing.

BLOCKBUSTER FAIL

The German blockbuster-directer Roland Emmerich has just released a trailer for his new movie Stonewall, and it’s been already discussed controversially, particularly about its lack of authenticity. Just to quickly recap: The Stonewall Riots were a series of protests in 1969 against the police by the LGBT community in New York after a police raid in [...]

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From India with love: warm words from our friends at Paper Planes.

NARRATION AS DRY AS SOIL

Christian Kracht’s book Imperium has been considered as a “Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas” recently. Released in Germany in 2012, it has now been translated into English by Daniel Bowes.
The protagonist of the fiction is August Engelhardt, a “nudist and cocovore”, who purchases land in what was then German New Guinea, in order to [...]

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Thanks to magCulture for the kind words: an in-depth review regarding the design of our latest issue featuring Gus van Sant, and it’s always reassuring when people understand perfectly what we were trying to achieve…

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Lovely: a charming review on our latest issue on the aptly named Nowness.

THANK YOU FOR THE FLOWERS

We’re utterly thrilled to be featured in French design bible The Shelf, with a whopping 18 pages… Interview and images galore, all in their trademark lovely design. Whoopee!