The Believer is a quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine specializing in criticism, literary nonfiction, and immersive reportage on contemporary issues. Like all good magazines, it has died a few times, but it always comes back to life, thanks to its faithful and devoted readership.
Broadcast is a virtual and annual print magazine published by Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. It uses narrative-driven journalism, essays, criticism, video, and audio to encourage radical thinking across the arts, sciences, music, and literature.
Cake Zine is a literary print magazine exploring art, history, and pop culture through food. We delivered their Humble Pie issue to Stack subscribers in 2023, and then we delivered their Forbidden Fruit issue last year, which just goes to show how much we like them.
Delayed Gratification is the world’s first slow journalism magazine. It’s a beautiful quarterly publication which revisits the events of the last three months to offer in-depth, independent journalism in an increasingly frantic world.
Die Quieter Please is a literary magazine based in London. Each issue is based around a different abstract theme, inspiring strange and unconventional fiction and poetry.
Dispatch is a modern magazine fuelled by frontier spirit. It publishes deeply reported features from across the world.
Emergence Magazine explores the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Its storytelling illuminates the ways in which humans are continuous with – and wholly dependent on – the living Earth.
The European Review of Books is a magazine of culture and ideas. It sometimes reviews books, but it’s renowned for its long, adventurous essays, reporting from across the continent and beyond.
The Fence is “The UK’s only magazine”. A quarterly print title based in Soho, it publishes excellent, characterful writing in a striking two-colour layout that has quickly built a cult following.
Hearing Things is a worker-owned music and culture platform run by writers and editors with many decades of collective experience covering music and culture at Pitchfork, The Fader, Vibe, Spin, Gawker, Jezebel, and elsewhere.
Heartbeat is more than a music magazine. Celebrating the emotion of sound through genre-defying stories that span nature and art, it ventures into the past and looks to the future to explore how what we listen to makes us feel.
Lärm & Gestalt is an independent publisher based in Berlin that works at the intersection of pop culture and memory.
Mildew is a print magazine about secondhand fashion and creative reuse, featuring art and writing that inspires us to think about old clothes in new ways.
Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary Arab film, literature, and art. Published biannually, both digitally and in print, the literary journal is a Whiting Award-winning publication that showcases diverse Arab and Southwest Asian and North African voices.
Mnemotope is a radically open literary magazine for people who don’t think their stories belong in a literary magazine. There’s no theme, no editing, and no restrictions on grammar or form, resulting in a journal that’s literally unlike any other.
Mother Tongue is a biannual print magazine that interrogates (and celebrates) modern motherhood through inclusive stories about art, sex, pop culture, politics, food and a few things in between.
Mushroom People is, “a magazine for mycophiles”. Come for the psychedelic stories about magic mushrooms, and stay for all the equally mind-bending tales of incredible fungi from around the world.
n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. Beginning in 2004, its founding editors looked back toward the dormant American tradition of politically engaged literary magazines in order to intervene in the present – and to change it.
Nobody is a Berlin-based print magazine about people, and the stories, places, and things they carry. It was created by two writers frustrated with the “clickbatey” nature of mainstream media, where experimentation and creativity can feel unattainable. Nobody is a space for other creators to step outside of these confines and reach beyond the headlines.
Not Here to Make Friends is a slim, annual magazine that takes a critical look at today’s most popular reality TV shows, using them as a prism through which to view contemporary society. It’s clever and funny, and well worth your time even if you say you never watch reality TV.
Pencil Magazine is a themed print publication featuring work created entirely with graphite pencil and paper.
Pit is a two-time winner of the Best Magazine Award at the Guild of Food Writers Awards. Each themed issue uncovers the most interesting and unusual food stories from around the world through people, traditions, techniques and ingredients.
Scary Boots is a risograph printed quarterly art and literature zine, exploring different aspects of human experience. Each issue of the zine is themed, and contributors are invited to respond to the theme as they see fit.
Serviette is a magazine about food: the people who grow and produce it, the distances we travel to eat it, and all the ways it’s tangled up with culture, science, history, and design.
Solomiya is an English-language magazine that was founded in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It presents diverse perspectives on contemporary realities and social issues in Ukraine and beyond through visual art, text, and design, blending personal experience, documentary practices and discourse.
Somesuch Stories is a literary magazine published by Somesuch, a production company with offices in London and Los Angeles. The magazine exists to showcase great storytelling around the world.
The Story is a magazine about storytelling. Written for those curious about the narratives that shape our world, it deconstructs texts big and small to see how they work, placing everyone from authors to spin doctors under the microscope to reveal their craft while wrestling with the big issues facing the media and literary worlds today.
Vestoj is a research platform that examines people’s relationship to their clothes and fashion’s relationship to identity.