Journal tagged by Magazine-y

Our Page 23 strand uses the randomly selected 23rd page of a magazine to highlight an attribute or factor in magazine-making. It returns after a break with the latest edition of Dutch gardening magazine Pleasant Place; their third issue—themed Compost—features a heavier paper stock in its centre pages.

First launched in reponse to the pandemic, to bring good news to its readers, Paperboy is back with a fourth issue that establishes a longer life for the magazine than perhaps even founder David McKenrick anticipated. The ability to entice great contributors to articulate his wit makes it our Magazine of the Month for May.

We loved issue two of Chutney, with its delicate risograph-printed colours and engaging stories. Would a move to offset printing change its character? Luckily not; this third issue succesfully turns what might have been a negative into a positive and is a step forward for the magazine about culture and identity.

The most popular item on our free shelf at the magCulture Shop is Picpus, an A6 art quarterly that folds out to a single A2 sheet manifesto/poster. ‘We aim to fill in the gaps in art history, tell stories in a clear style about the smaller events that we are less familiar with,’ says founder and co-editor Charles Asprey.

Our latest Page 23 is a reminder how a magazine can celebrate the physical nature of its production. The new, eighth, issue of SU weed mag Gossamer is themed ‘Space’, and fearures a 13mm hole drilled through the centre of the entire issue. Co-founder Verena von Pfetten explains…

The European Review of Books is an impressive, new 254-page magazine of culture and ideas published from Amsterdam. One of its founders, Sander Pleij, discusses the concept for the new launch and explains its uncut pages as he looks ahead at his working week.