The Fence #29
200 x 270 mm, 64 pages
London, UK
Quarterly
First published in 2019
Editor: Charlie Baker
Design: Studio Mathias Clottu
‘The UK’s only magazine’
The Fence has developed a devoted readership for its scurrilous and very English mix of humour, investigation and politics. Smartly presented in black and orange with copious illustration, it’s a unique publication that describes itself as ‘The UK’s only magazine’. Patently untrue of course—check our shelves! Perhaps a better description comes from Graydon Carter: ‘The illegitimate offspring of Private Eye and Evelyn Waugh.’ It’s certainly a very English magazine, if not a London one.
The back-to-school issue (the back cover reads, ‘Back in the Jug Agane,’ a reference to one of the Molesworth series of books from the 1950s) records 90s food hero Oliver Peyton’s move into high-end funerals, publishes a new short story from William Boyd, and profiles the late TV/radio prankster Victor Lewis-Smith. Plus Bertie Brandes decodes London’s fashionable tribes.
On episode 39 of the magCulture Podcast:
Editor Charles Baker discusses his magazine.
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