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The Idler #100

148 x 210 mm, 162 pages
London, UK
Bimonthly
Editor: Tom Hodgkinson
Art director: Alice Smith
Cover: Alice Smith

A bimonthly magazine helping readers ‘to lead more fulfilled lives’ through idleness.

After the first issue being released in 1993, The Idler has delivered its 100th issue. Dive into a conversation about sin with Succession creator Jesse Armstrong and former Archbishop Rowan Williams, learn the value of slow living from Paul Theroux, and read an in-depth Almanac for 2025. Also inside find essays, book reviews and home design tips. 

On the Journal:

‘Tom Hodgkinson launched The Idler in 1993 as a celebration of loafing, taking the name from a 1758 essay by Dr Johnson… ‘Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.’ 
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