This book explores both positions. It looks at the representation of male sexuality, nudity, fatherhood, male violence, rape, fascism and virility, men and war. It shows works of art that deal with the intricacies and contradictions of these socio-cultural constructs and realities. Shame! and Masculinity is hybrid in terms of genre, combining scholarly essays with short stories, personal testimonies, and provocative and intimate artist’s contributions. It stimulates reflection on shame in collusion with masculinity, from male as well as female perspectives. Thus it encourages us to reimagine these issues that simultaneously play a role in society, in our own experience, in history, and in our own bodies and being. 

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly ist ein vorausdenkendes und mutiges Magazin, das sich voll und ganz dem Thema Zukunft widmet. Renommierte Journalisten und andere kluge Denker rund um den Globus beleuchten mit Reportagen, Analysen, Interviews und Fotostrecken die sich anbahnenden Aufbrüche und Umbrüche – in Politik & Gesellschaft, in Kultur & Wissenschaft und in Mode & Design. Voller Neugier und Offenheit begegnen sie allem, was weltweit an Neuem entsteht. Mit intellektuellem Tiefgang, souveräner Stilsicherheit und visueller Opulenz sorgt F.A.Z. Quarterly viermal im Jahr auf 180 Seiten für echten Leseluxus.

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From our mother's womb to the grave, how do smells follow us through our lives? Can our sense of smell help us survive? Are perfumes also dying?

This eleventh issue explores the close links that exist between our nose and the notions of life and death. Nez is an invitation to explore the world through our olfactory sensations, adopting a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses art, literature, photography, science, history, gastronomy and, of course, perfumery, providing its readers with a better understanding of the essential role the sense of smell plays in our lives.

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The first ever periodical to be dedicated to scent and the sense of smell. Bringing together articles, interviews, surveys and critical analysis with an olfactory focus, Nez challenges us to use our noses to explore the world.

Art, literature, science, history, perfume… Nez is unique in its diverse and informative approach and helps us understand how our sense of smell connects us to the world.

This magazine tells a journey showing the art of different human beings. It displays our process, our learning while exposing the different aspects of our identity.

Hometown has always been about places, memories, and stories, but recently those were missing something very essential. Since most of us are still locked down worldwide, we were confronted with a desire to reach out to other human beings again. To find out about ouridentity and what it means to be alive. That’s what episode 2 is about.

An interview with New York City-based filmmaker Lance Edmands explores the life of an Amish atheist. Alec Soth‘s new book delves into depression and how creativity can emerge from that darkness and give hope. Photographer Cole Barash asks “what is the symmetry between objects from different environments yet living in the same climate”? We talked to the directors Miles Jay, Stefanie Soho, and Asan Aslam about how self doubt affects creativity. The Paris-based illustrator designed the centerfold of this issue. It shows the vibrant and insightful voyage of her creative process. Through his series „Passengers“, Cesar Dezfuli gives migrants an identity. And much more.

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The blue issue of the hinterlands magazine assembles rural realities in 17 contributions from European rural regions and villages. The magazine combines reports, essays and photographic series related to the colour blue.

“Starting with blue, hinterlands magazine explores the rural and non-urban in each issue through a different colour. Looking at various places, formats and facets, the magazine brings together the individual and the transnational, it sheds light on narratives which might otherwise remain hidden in the newspapers’ local sections or in the unwritten memories of a village youth.” – Editorial

Editorial team: Hanna Döring, Freia Kuper, Maike Suhr

Graphic Design: Till Hormann

Illustration: Lasse Wandschneider

Contributing authors: Duygu Atçeken, Anita Back, Anna Barbieri, Federica Buzzi, Fabio Davit, Hanna Döring, Ştefan Ionescu-Ambrosie, Marissa Klaver, Ola Korbańska, Irina Lazarova, Daniel Mayr, Vasso Paraschi, Anna Quinz, Stefan Schocher, Jana Schütt, Evžen Sobek, Maike Suhr, Mirishahe Syla, Hanne Trede

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hinterlands is a print magazine for rural realities and narratives from Europe’s countrysides. In reports, essayistic prose and photographic formats, hinterlands magazine presents local rural reporting and creates a transgressive understanding of rurality.

Each issue appears in one colour that connects the plurality of contributions like different shades. For the first issue we get through, tangled up in blue. We warmly invite submissions.

ISSUE 4 – THE BLACK (AND WHITE) ALBUM

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We are excited to announce the next issue of Soft Punk – Issue 04: The Black (and White) Album.

Featuring work from Apoorva Tadepalli, K-Ming Chang, Frances Waite, Lisette Poole and more, this issue examines relationships, both with the self and other, familial, platonic and romantic.

We have continued to pursue the most engaging and explorative writing and art from around the world, and we believe this issue is a testament to that mission.

Covers by Corbin Shaw, shot by Ollo Weguelin

Ubikwist Issue 12 - The Recovery Issue

Ubikwist’s bi-annual issue has come to represent more than just a magazine. It’s become an event for communal dialogue – and of course, a flag-waving moment for avant-garde talent. It’s always a euphoric moment to live up to this expectation and we are thrilled to bring you our latest edition: The Recovery Issue.

With collaborators from Costa Rica, Great Britain, France, Japan, USA, Tobago to Zimbabwe, the Recovery issue features a diverse lineup of activists, fashion and beauty experts, art, music, and film talents across the spectrum. Through uplifting interviews and stunning visuals, it showcases the work of visionaries, activists, photographers and designers, covering what’s now, what’s next, and what’s necessary. In an exclusive interview, legendary photographer and historian Anthony Barboza gets candid about telling stories of the past and present through his art and why those stories matter. Actor Aaron Pierre takes us behind the scenes on his leading role in the hit Amazon mini-series, The Underground Railroad, an alternative timeline where a network of abolitionists,
hidden routes, and safe houses helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the early to mid 1800s.

For most, music transported us through the tumultuous 2020 and we’re excited to profile Meshell Ndegeocello, Reni Lane, and Jupiter & Okwess in this light. Additionally, Nigerian fashion designer Kenneth Ize talks to us about his collaboration with the Karl Lagerfeld brand. After designing jewelry for the biggest names in entertainment and pop culture, Wilfredo Rosado opens up about a definitive career highlight: designing the pearl necklace Vice President Kamala Harris wore for her historic inauguration. And in reflection, the iconic Michele Saunders recounts a life filled with danceable memories after decades of enchanting audiences with her art.

Celebrating these art forms requires centering the issues the artists face – and recovery perfectly captures that. In this iteration packed with inspiring stories, the celebration of varying talents, and candid insights into our world today, the Recovery issue delves into its meaning and further challenges the reader into rethinking its process.

It’s hard to reflect on the past year without feeling like we’ve entered a fictional tale. And yet here we are: not only has COVID-19 taken root around the world, but wildfires have raged across the Arctic Circle, Brazil, Australia, and the western United States; people have risen up to stand against racial injustice, and it feels as though we're witnessing only the beginning of a deep fracturing of this civilization. We do not yet know the changes that will come to light locally and globally.

Volume II of our print edition speaks to the multiple crises and opportunities unfolding around us: plague, extinctions, and loneliness grip us ever tighter even as they affirm our connection with the living world. Across 400 pages—and through essays, photography, adapted multimedia, poems, and original artwork—this collection considers the stories that we want to seed in these mythological times. Contributors include Pulitzer prize winners and finalists Forrest Gander, Richard Powers, Elizabeth Rush, David Haskell, and Linda Hogan; acclaimed writers, poets, and artists Robert Macfarlane, Camille T. Dungy, Jake Skeets, Brenda Hillman, Katie Holten, Sheila Pree Bright, Paul Kingsnorth, and many others.

Borshch – Issue 6

coming home

Lately, everything’s been weird. The feeling of vulnerability, fragmentation of time, space and memory, lack of solid ground. Many of us went back to the old ways of listening to music — glued to the speakers in your room. Is it daytime, or is it dark already? Remember your room was your whole universe? Feels like it’s time to return to where you started, to come back home. Remember what mattered to you before you grew up. Were you naive and unlearned? Or did you know yourself better before someone told you how to think of yourself and what to want and what to call for?

In our conversations, Lanark Artefax, Lyra Pramuk, Nazar, Hiro Kone, Bill Kouligas, Amnesia Scanner, Farwarmth, Helena Hauff and Racine review pieces and bits of their memories, values, and intentions with creating music. When you return to where you started and remember the days when the world was big, and you were small, and nothing was impossible, you start to play again. You free and protect your inner child. You are at home.