WEIRD FUCKS:
Lynne Tillman’s catalogue of underperformed intimacy
the Narrative issue | Issue 88 | BUY THIS ISSUE
front
- THE FINAL FRONTIER FOR EXTREME WEALTH: the vacant space of luxurious waste. By Masoud Golsorkhi
- STYLE STATEMENT by Caroline Issa
- DRESS REHEARSAL: photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Caroline Issa
- DECOUPE: Artwork by Eva Stenram, Make-up by Kay Montano
- SHADOW PLAY: light, memory and beauty with Mame Kurogouchi. Text by Caroline Issa
- SPACE RACE: photography by Nicolas Haeni
- A SURREALIST COOKBOOK: Daniel Roseberry’s Schiaparelli takes the familiar to new heights of fantasy. Photography by Daniel Roseberry, text by Caroline Issa
- SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: photography by Noel Quintela, styling by Elena Mottola, text by Caroline Issa
features
- STREAMS OF REALITY: on philosophy and storytelling. Text by Justin E.H. Smith
- WHOLESOME ENCOUNTERS: William Scott’s bright vision of a better world. Text by Christabel Stewart
- SHATTER FASCIST PROPAGANDA IN FEWER THAN 280 CHARACTERS: the novel in an age of spectacle. Text by Meena Kandasamy
- THE AMAZON EFFECT: what has Amazon meant for the novel? Text by Mark McGurl
- A LOT OF KRILL AND SHIT: what accounts for the contemporary boom in backstory? Text by Joe Kennedy
- RULES OF THE GAME: photography by Brendan Freeman, styling by Riccardo Linarello
- ROMANTICISE YOUR LIFE: why escape into fictional realms when you can enact them in the here and now? Text by Joanna Pope
- THE ESCAPE: photography by Xiaopeng Yuan, styling by Zinn Zhou
- IT WAS ALL BAD, BUT IT ALL MADE SENSE: the false comforts of climate narratives. Text by Chiara Di Leone
- HAMLET: Shanzhai Lyric’s poetry of replicas
- A NEW SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: on the mass personalisation of truth. Text by Hossein Derakhshan
- AETHEREAL: photography by Benjamin Breading, styling by Kingsley Tao
- WHAT DOESN’T HAPPEN: writing within and about ill feelings. Text by Alice Hattrick
- WEAR YOUR HEART ON YOUR SLEEVE: photography by Andreas Klassen, styling by Kieran Kilgallon
- THE CULT OF CULT: on the defining political insult of our time. Text by Will Wiles
- LONG STORY SHORT: photography by Pietro Cocco, styling by Elisa Voto
- CHINESE ELEGY, AMERICAN EULOGY: the US and China do the globalisation tango. By Masoud Golsorkhi
- SPRINGS ETERNAL: Oklou in Paris
talk
- LUDMILA ULITSKAYA: “The more issues a society has, the brighter its literature”
- KEITH RIDGWAY: “I wanted to write about the fact that we are carrying things that we don’t even know we’re carrying”
- YEN TECH: "If you enjoyed the sensation of someone whispering in your ear before, you might not after this"
- JOSIAH MCELHENY: “Transparency always has reflections too; it has colour and a surface that gets dirty almost immediately”
- KAOUTHER BEN HANIA: “I'm fascinated by power and the relationship between the dominant and those who are dominated”
- LARA MARTIN: “How can I get a system to tell a story about anything I want?”
- RUPA MARYA & RAJ PATEL: “Capitalist structure is a form of biological warfare against the working class around the world”
- DANE MITCHELL: “In this current moment, or any current moment, we sit atop this mass of vanished, disappeared and obsolete things”
