Journal tagged by Close-up

The New Space
Our Close-up strand, where we share an excerpt from a new issue or publication, is back! Scott King’s latest project, The New Space, portrays a lone art worker’s campaign against the entire culture industry (AKA ‘Space Control’) armed only with social media. Funny and tragic, anyone involved in culture will feel a familiar pang…

Cake Zine #3

Mother Tongue #4

Somesuch Stories #6

The Happy Reader #17
The Happy Reader returns with another celebration of books and reading. Opening with an interview with artist Mark Leckey, the second part of the issue celebrates the novel ‘Middlemarch’. Our latest Close-up sample comes from that section, a memoir of regularly re-reading George Eliot’s book.

Good Sport #5
Good Sport’s approach to its subject is designed to appeal to even the least sporty reader. Our sample from the new fifth issue shows how fantasy football and the iconic status of sports stars can be used to explain Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra.