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Surprise Pack issue 5

Steve Watson — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:58:14 +0000

Have you ever wanted to try Stack without fully committing to joining the club? This limited-edition Surprise Pack is the perfect way to do exactly that, providing a one-off delivery of five previous subscriber magazines for just £20. As always, there are only 100 of these Surprise Packs available and we’re not re-stocking, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The magazines in this pack are worth a total of £84 and just like with our monthly magazine club, you won’t know what they are until they arrive at your door. They cover a range of subjects, from design to travel, and from dancing to the environment, and they have all been enjoyed by our subscribers at some point in the last year or so.

Numbers are always strictly limited for these special offers, so grab yours while you can. And at the risk of stating the obvious, please don’t buy this Surprise Pack if you have been a Stack subscriber in the last year, because you will already own these magazines!

Our artwork for this fifth edition of the Surprise Pack was created by art director, graphic designer and illustrator Ant Gardner. We love his weird little characters and lovely lettering – see more at antgardner.com.

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Solomiya issue 4

Steve Watson — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:20 +0000

Launched in 2022 in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Solomiya provides a platform for Ukrainian artists, creatives and activists to reflect on the world around them, as they see it. This fourth issue is smaller and more concentrated than the first three, focusing closely on the intersection of war and the environment, illuminating some of the struggles and contradictions that are central to contemporary Ukrainian life.

In this issue:

Countering stereotypical views of the Ukrainian landscape, which see it as either devastated battlefield, economic breadbasket, or post-nuclear wasteland
Possible scenarios for restoring nature in Ukraine
Photography and artworks reflecting on the environment in Ukraine
Seeking an alternative nature in kurgans, the ancient earthen mounds scattered across the Ukrainian steppe
And relationships with nature, in contrast to relationships with people

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Nobody issue 3

Steve Watson — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:36:02 +0000

A magazine dedicated to telling, ‘stories about everything else’, Nobody provides a home for the sort of journalism that might not be picked up by more mainstream outlets. Each issue is built around a different theme, which provides a loose, provocative direction for contributors, and this issue’s theme of ‘Burning’ gleefully confounds readers’ expectations.

In this issue:

Reconsidering shipworms as queer, kinky, anticolonial activists
One writer’s disillusionment with the “quasi-religion” of human spaceflight
The science nerds who volunteered to live on a Pacific island of acid-spitting ants
The last party in South Philly
And editor Tessa Love discovers herself via her Notes app

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Crude Futures issue 1

Steve Watson — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:29:58 +0000

A magazine born out of the pandemic, Crude Futures is dedicated to examining notions of collapse. Covering a wide range of writing, from short fiction to long essays, and focusing on subjects including the environment, popular protest, war, and international supply chains, it uses systems-level thinking to understand what it means when our world falls apart.

In this issue:

Inside a Just Stop Oil nonviolence training session
Catabolic collapse and the fragility of global supply chains
Picturing polycrisis – the cascading effects of parallel ongoing crises
How collapsology has been weaponised in Palestine
And the manmade (but inadvertent) spread of the murder hornet

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Surprise Pack issue 4

Steve Watson — Tue, 28 May 2024 08:59:35 +0000

Have you ever wanted to try Stack without committing straight away? This limited-edition Surprise Pack is the perfect way to do exactly that, providing a one-off delivery of five previous subscriber magazines for just £20. As always, there are only 100 of these Surprise Packs available and we’re not re-stocking, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The magazines in this pack are worth a total of £73 and just like with our monthly magazine club, you won’t know what they are until they arrive at your door. They cover a range of subjects, from art and design, to literature, fashion and the environment, and they have all been enjoyed by our subscribers at some point in the last year. (It’s worth emphasising that the illustration above gives no clue about what you’ll receive. I don’t think there’s a single article about insects in any of the magazines.)

Numbers are always strictly limited for these special offers, so grab yours while you can. And at the risk of stating the obvious, please don’t buy this Surprise Pack if you have been a Stack subscriber in the last year, because you will already own these magazines!

Our artwork for this fourth edition of the Surprise Pack was created by Lebanese illustrator and comics artist Raphaelle Macaron. She’s currently based in Paris, and we love her bold, distinctive graphics – see more at raphaellemacaron.com.

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Mildew issue 2

Steve Watson — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:28:49 +0000

The fashion magazine with a difference, Mildew focuses on secondhand clothes to create a beautifully warm, nostalgic picture of what we wear. There’s a strong ideological angle too – Mildew’s vision of secondhand provides an alternative to the social and environmental damage done by fast fashion, and even extends to alternative models of ownership. And because none of the clothes on its pages are for sale, it’s a rare example of a fashion magazine that’s not trying to sell you anything.

In this issue:

One man’s quest to preserve every Gap in-store playlist from 1992 to 2006
Harking back to the exuberance and excitement of post-Soviet Lithuania in the 90s
An elegy for the estate sale
Sexy statement knitwear upcycled from granny’s old jumpers
And a day of treasure hunting at Brooklyn vintage fair A Current Affair

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Surprise Pack issue 3

Steve Watson — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:40:19 +0000

The third edition of our Surprise Pack is the ideal way to get a taste of our monthly magazine club experience, but without subscribing. Buy this Surprise Pack and you’ll get a one-off delivery of five previous subscriber magazines for just £20. But there are only 100 of these Surprise Packs available and we’re not re-stocking, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The magazines in this pack are worth a total of £72 and just like with our monthly magazine club, you won’t know exactly what they are until they arrive at your door. (Don’t be fooled by the illustration above – these are not magazines about coffee! Though we thoroughly recommend reading them with a drink by your side.) They cover a range of subjects, from art and design, to literature and the environment, and they have all been enjoyed by our subscribers at some point in the last year.

Numbers will always be strictly limited for these special offers, so grab yours while you can. And at the risk of stating the obvious, please don’t buy this Surprise Pack if you have been a Stack subscriber in the last year, because you will already own these magazines!

Our artwork for this third edition is by Brazilian artist Daniel Batista. We love his bright, wobbly illustrations – to see more of his work, go to instagram.com/freshprincipee.

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Ecoes issue 5

Steve Watson — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:39:53 +0000

Published by Sonic Acts, an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam, Ecoes shifts readers away from the anthropocentric norm and shows the non-human as more than just a resource to be exploited. This issue focuses on water, and its stories take turns to problematise the stuff that comes out of our taps, encouraging readers to slow down and think again about something that most of us probably take for granted.

In this issue:

A close look at ice, asking what melting means in the climate crisis
How bleached coral is being rehabilitated by playing the sounds of healthy coral
Considering the sky at the world’s first cloud bar
Listening and sound recording within the harbours of cities
And thinking about the acient history of the water in your body

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Superstore Wilderness issue 1

Steve Watson — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:05:10 +0000

A magazine that embraces the edgelands, Superstore Wilderness is drawn to the places that are neither rural nor urban – the often overlooked spaces that sit on the outskirts of our towns and cities. And the magazine is also kind of neither one thing nor the other – the tabloid size and improved newsprint make it feel like a newspaper, but its personal stories and lovely photography are 100% the stuff of independent magazines.

In this issue:

The brutalist beauty of Simon Phipps’s photography
Finding yourself in a liminal space
Making the case for National Park Cities
The environmental and social opportunities of brownfield sites
And lots of stories about cycling, running and walking through the edgelands

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Hinterlands issue 3

Steve Watson — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:44:08 +0000

The strapline of Hinterlands is ‘Magazine for Rural Realities’, and the plural is important. Reporting from villages, fields and woodland across Europe, it presents many different versions of life in the countryside, all of them challenging the familiar stereotype of green rolling hills and simple folk. Instead, each issue begins with a themed colour, using it to tell unexpected stories about the people and places outside our towns and cities.

In this issue:

The fascist garden – Nazi ideas and horticultural ideologies
The Georgian billionaire who ransacked ancient landscapes to build an arboretum of centuries-old trees
How the green revolution is wrecking the Serbian countryside, as miners race to extract the lithium needed for electric car batteries
The traditional process of turning plants into clothes
And taking a closer look at Britain’s Green Belt land

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