MacGuffin, Stories
100 x 135 mm, 264 pages
Amsterdam, Netherlands (English-language)
Editors: Kirsten Algera & Ernst van der Hoeven
Design: Sandra Kassenaar
‘The Life of Things’
A long standing magCulture favourite and one of our most reliable bestsellers, MacGuffin returns with a special ‘Stories’ edition. This petite and suitably bookish publication is a compilation of fiction from all 15 previous editions of MacGuffin—covering everything from logs to letters—providing an animated anthology of the everyday penned by ‘writers and artists who celebrate the unexpected beauty and drama hidden in daily life’.
Inside, readers can expect a series of 18 eccentric tales, furnished by characters ranging from a brutally honest plughole to a series of unsettling windows. Each story is accompanied by thoughtfully commissioned artwork in keeping with the bold red and white colour scheme of this edition.
Featuring writing by Olivia Douglass, Simone Atangana Bekono, Daphne Huisden, Jente Posthuma, Inigo Laguda, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Sarah Arnolds, Rosa Rankin-Gee, Fouad Laroui, and more.
On the Journal
Our Magazine of the Month review: ‘MacGuffin remains an essential magazine, an ideal riposte to anyone doubting the power of print. As well as being editorially brilliant, it is also, itself, a beautiful Thing. Its size, format and combination of papers making it a lovely object to hold and to flick through’.