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Kajet issue 5

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:03:12 +0000

Kajet Journal is a beautifully bookish title that showcases ambitious philosophical perspectives on Eastern Europe. This fourth issue is themed around Easternfuturism, inspired by Afrofuturism and dedicated to imagining a version of Eastern Europe beyond the current capitalist post-socialism.

In this issue:

Sorrowfuturism — Ukrainian photographer Pavlo Borshchenko’s visions of (post-)Soviet utopia
Utopian dreamworlds and ecological echoes from the future
Pop-culture and planning, politics and post-socialism: Yugofuturism beyond Yugoslavia
Cosmic acid futurism

Kajet issue 2 is also available in the Stack shop.

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Fukt issue 19

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:18:22 +0000

Fukt is one of the world’s leading drawing magazines. This 19th issue, created during the COVID-19 pandemic, looks at the art of narration in drawing.

In this issue:

Epic re-drawn: a feminist tale by Emma Talbot
Ceramics by Maria Paz which ask a question: does my pain shape me or do I shape it?
Folktales, fantasies and freaks: The psychedelic world of Davor Gromilovic
Mapping isolation by Gareth Fuller

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Kajet issue 4

Heval Okcuoglu — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:40:49 +0000

Frustrated by a “purely anecdotal” understanding of Eastern Europe, the founders of Kajet Journal created a beautifully bookish title with new perspectives from the region. The fourth issue of Kajet is themed around the future.

In this issue:

What does the future of Europe look like?
‘Kisieland’, a record of Karol Radziszewski’s meeting with Ryszard Kisiel, a representative of Poland’s homosexual underground of the 1980s
Walking the periphery: a brief genealogy of drifting

Kajet issue 2 is also available in the Stack shop.

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Mal Journal issue 5

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:28:00 +0000

Mal is a journal of sexuality and erotics featuring essays, fiction and poetry. This issue is titled ‘On anti-erotics and sexual pessimism’ and includes four essays, two stories and thirteen poems, featuring illustrations by John Slade.

In this issue:

On heterofatalism
The Incel phenomenon
On ongoing intersections between sex, violence and objectification
Poetry by Wayne Koestenbaum, Kim Moore, Lara Mimosa Montes and Sam Riviere

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Nork issue 4

Lucy Corkish — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:38:34 +0000

Exploring art, culture, lifestyle and creativity in Northern Norway, Nork magazine connects the North with the global community, with an emphasis on eco-consciousness. Nork is a bilingual magazine — printed in English and Norwegian — and it showcases contemporary and bold stories from the urban wilderness.

Winner of Best Use of Illustration at the 2019 Stack Awards

In this issue:

An encounter with the North, via a parent’s photobook.
An interview with the New Mineral Collective
Coastline crush: mapping the rising waters of tomorrow
Short stories and poems about an imagined, mystical North

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The Stinging Fly issue 40 volume 2

Lucy Corkish — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:39:37 +0000

The Stinging Fly magazine was established in Dublin in late 1997 to seek out, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing. It has a particular interest in encouraging new writers, and in promoting the short story form. Two issues each year offer a lively mix of brilliant new fiction, nonfiction and poetry from both new and more established writers.

Winner of Best Original Fiction at the 2019 Stack Awards

In this issue:

Harpies, Dizz Tate’s story that won Best Original Fiction at the Stack Awards 2019
Border Voices: Darran Anderson, Emily S. Cooper, Susannah Dickey, Sean O’Reilly and James Conor Patterson
Six poems from the issue’s featured poet Dean Browne
‘A Short Story But It’s Written Like An Internet Meme’ by Hayley Carr
Doireann Ní Ghríofa – Dhá dhán (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin a d’aistrigh)
Essays from Martina Evans, Carol Ballantine, Tadhg Coakley and Ian Maleney
Cover illustration and design by Emer Kiely

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Victory Journal: Proving Grounds

Lucy Corkish — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:04:21 +0000

Renowned for its photography, Victory Journal splashes athletes’ blood, sweat, and tears onto its oversized, large-format pages. Taking a broad approach to sports, this issue tackles ‘Proving Grounds’, where greatness is defined, will is tested, and limits transcended.

Winner of Best Use of Photography at the 2019 Stack Awards

In this issue:

In Florida, brotherhood is tested as sibling vie for supremacy in an elite football family
Exploding stereotypes of Women’s National Basketball Association athletes in Dallas, Texas
DIVA’s of the Compton dance team, practicing a routine to Cardi B’s ‘Drip’
In the dark waters of the Everglades, where a nocturnal scene of “herpers” hunt for reptiles for bounty and glory
Wunderkind heavyweight Kyle Snyder is putting Olympic wrestling back on America’s radar

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Fukt issue 18

Lucy Corkish — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:23:53 +0000

Fukt Magazine is an annual magazine for contemporary drawing. The latest issue looks at the innate human desire to create systems and how artists across the world interpret this subject in the field of drawing. Topics include robotic drawings, neuroscience, data drawings and chess, together with extensive interviews with Julie Mehretu, Giorgia Lupi and many more.

Winner of Cover of the Year at the 2019 Stack Awards

In this issue:

The political cartoons of actor Jim Carrey
The body’s system of movement as depicted by Trisha Brown and Tony Orrico
Pablo Helguera’s satirical observations of the art world
The Captured Project’s exposé of the American judicial system

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Flaneur issue 8

Lucy Corkish — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:23:25 +0000

Flaneur is a nomadic magazine focusing on one street per issue. The magazine embraces the street’s complexity, its layers and fragmented nature with a literary approach. The team spends months on location creating and commissioning content, attempting to use a single microcosm to tell universal stories.This issue follows the rivers of Taipei to Wanhua, the oldest part of the Taiwanese capital.

Winner of Magazine of the Year and Art Director of the Year at the 2019 Stack Awards

In this issue:

Yu Cheng-Ta attempts a self-transformation into a fictional geisha called ShaSha
Inspired by Jacques Derrida, Snow Huang looks at the memories shaped by the private writings of dissidents, prisoner confessions, verdicts, and interrogation records from the first wave of the White Terror in 1950s Taiwan
A Pokémon-GO master discusses the app’s subversive potential to reveal the city’s psychogeography
Collecting weeds and making tea for sex workers with artist Lin Chi-Yu
Little Dragon Soup: A blend of site-specific research, Chinese medicine, and experimental music to remedy the emotional distress of the park near Longshan Temple

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Mal Journal issue 4

Lucy Corkish — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:55:38 +0000

Mal is a journal of sexuality and erotics featuring essays, fiction and poetry. This issue, Real Girls, considers projection, transgression and adolescence, bringing together texts that challenge received notions of innocence and moral reasoning.

Commended for Best Original Fiction at the 2019 Stack Awards

In this issue:

New fiction by Chris Kraus, Luke Brown and Natasha Stagg
Poetry by Rachel Long and a sequence of poems by Sasha Dugdale
Illustrations by Birdie Hall

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