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Anthroposphere Review

Anthroposphere Review is an interdisciplinary magazine founded at Oxford University and open to contributors from around the world. They cover climate change and the environment through the lenses of natural science, economics, literature, pop culture, and much more. 

Are.na

Are.na is a place to save content, create collections over time and connect ideas. It is a mindful space where you can work through any project over time. It's a place to structure your ideas and build new forms of knowledge together.

The Believer

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.

The BitterSweet Review

The BitterSweet Review is a publishing platform dedicated to the advancement of queer literature and visual culture.

Boot

Boot explores the politics of image-based work, engaging with themes such as subculture, sexuality, fantasy, online culture, and DIY communities. It publishes transgressive visuals that challenge conventional representations of reality and society.

Cake Zine

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

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

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.

Dirt

Dirt is a next-generation entertainment brand using emerging technology to tell the coolest stories about culture and collecting.

Dispatch

Dispatch is a modern magazine fuelled by frontier spirit. It publishes deeply reported features from across the world.

The Drift

The Drift is a magazine of culture, literature, and politics. It aims to introduce new work and new ideas by young writers who haven’t yet been absorbed into the media hivemind and don’t feel hemmed in by the boundaries of the existing discourse.

Elastic

Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art and literature. It publishes visual art and writing that bend time and genre and perspective, blurring waking and dreaming life, finding sublimity and absurdity in the everyday, magnifying the senses, multiplying and distorting the possibilities of narrative, and interrogating power by breaking form.

Emergence Magazine

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

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.

Extra Teeth

Extra Teeth was started as a place for experimental, bold and unique stories and essays that might not find a home in any other literary magazine. The magazine has a special emphasis on new writing coming from writers in Scotland, but with an international outlook.

The Fence

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.

Flaming Hydra

FLAMING HYDRA is a new kind of publication for people who like to read and write whatever we want, and to connect in an unmediated way, with no weirdo surveillance or profiteering—like the old internet used to be.

Folding Rock

was founded in 2024 by two editors determined to help put Wales and Welsh writing on the UK map – and far beyond. They publish the best new creative prose: fiction, non-fiction, and everything in between.

Hearing Things

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

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.

La Cuenta

La Cuenta is an ongoing exploration of the costs incurred by roughly 11 million individuals in the United States that are labeled as undocumented.

Lärm

Lärm & Gestalt is an independent publisher based in Berlin that works at the intersection of pop culture and memory.

Loam

Loam is a community-powered print publisher, telling stories at the confluence of ecology and systems change.

Mildew

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

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

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

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

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

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.

New Papers

New Papers is a magazine that publishes new fiction and poetry. Each issue’s publication is accompanied by its live and sequential performance at the Rose Lipman Centre in London. For every performance, an artist is commissioned to design the setting and a representative collage is published as a card.

New York Review of Architecture

New York Review of Architecture reviews architecture in New York. (And lots of other stuff too.)

Nobody

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

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.

Open Tennis

Open Tennis is a new print magazine stemming from The Second Serve, a new tennis media company and lifestyle publication.

Pencil Magazine

Pencil Magazine is a themed print publication featuring work created entirely with graphite pencil and paper.

Pioneer Works Broadcast

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.

Pit

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.

Real Review

Real Review is a contemporary culture magazine that investigates, “what it means to live today”.

Scary Boots

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

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.

The Smudge

The Smudge is a monthly newspaper offering articles, interviews, comics, and advice from a range of unique thinkers and creators.

Solomiya

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

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

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.

Translator

Translator is new magazine of translated journalism and reportage from around the world, for the open-minded and the language-curious. They are a community open to everyone interested in reading the world differently. Issue #3 is out now, available in select stores and online. 

Typotheque

Typotheque is a Netherlands-based type design company, recognised internationally as experts in multilingual typography and creating innovative font solutions for both global and local audiences.

Vestoj

Vestoj is a research platform that examines people’s relationship to their clothes and fashion’s relationship to identity.

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