Monika Radojevic in conversation — After co-winning Stormzy’s publishing imprint’s inaugural New Writers’ Prize, the 25-year-old is gearing up for the release of her debut poetry collection – an urgent book about identity, ancestry and history.
Written by: Beatrice Tridimas
Ghost town — Photographer Fei Alexeli recalls travelling from her hometown in Greece to the Californian desert, where she captured the abandoned buildings and empty towns dotted around the vast landscape.
Written by: Huck
Bender Defenders — With hate crimes on the rise and trust in the institutions tasked with dealing with them swiftly declining, a new street defence movement is coming out to protect queer Londoners from violence.
Written by: Rosie Hewitson
Tomorrow sex will be good again — Writer and academic Katherine Angel discusses her new book, which urges readers to rethink the concept of consent as the be-all and end-all of a ‘good’ sexual encounter, recognising it instead as a slippery notion.
Written by: Daisy Schofield
Obsession of Return — Kseniia Grebennikova describes documenting her larger-than-life grandmother in her secluded hometown of Nevelsk as part of a project that allowed her to embrace childhood nostalgia.
Written by: Huck
Revisiting the past — After experiencing violent crime himself in his hometown of South Africa, the late photographer David Goldblatt set out to understand what leads criminals to that pivotal moment.
Written by: Bea Tridimas
Shoot and fire — Photographer OK McCausland recalls visiting the city’s sole gun range, where an unexpected subculture of everyone from retired cops to teachers and lawyers go to blow off steam.
Written by: OK McCausland
Forgotten world — In 1976, photographer Peter Schlesinger visited the Middle Eastern country, which had been closed to foreigners for many years, documenting what he saw as he travelled from the capital Sanaa and on through the northern city of Sa’da.
Written by: Bea Tridimas
Mouth Full of Golds — Writer and filmmaker Lyle Lindgren discusses his new book recounting the forgotten story of Eddie Plein, an entrepreneur who changed the face of hip-hop – one gold tooth at a time.
Written by: Daisy Schofield
Eyes on the Prize — A 1987 film recently made available to stream chronicles the fight to end decades of discrimination from the point of view of the ordinary people whose actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life.
Written by: Miss Rosen