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What Netflix did next: five icons & some bland AF teenagers
Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into Netflix’s new releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s Wine Country (fine) and The Last Summer (a disgrace).
Written by: Megan Nolan
A portrait of British youth culture in the 1980s
Young skins — Gavin Watson’s photos, of his friends making fun on the estate they grew up on, perfectly capture the defiant freedom of adolescent.
Written by: Huck
Inside the UK’s most radical indie publishers
Part Ten: Comma Press — Unapologetically political, Comma Press are in the vanguard of UK literary culture – publishing some of the most challenging short stories in the industry.
Written by: Kit Caless
‘I honestly think white music is fucking irrelevant now’
Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie — As he gears up to release a new album made up of his band’s commercial hits, the 56-year-old frontman is in a philosophical mood. We meet him to discuss addiction, austerity and why he’s fed up with white men.
Written by: Niall Flynn
Television has always hated working class people
Good riddance Jeremy Kyle — Jeremy Kyle may finally be gone, but what it stands for – the hateful demonisation of working-class communities – remains stronger than ever. Dawn Foster explains why the show was always just a small part of a much larger toxic ecosystem.
Written by: Dawn Foster
Teenage life inside a Israeli military training camp
Conscripted at 18 — Photographer Iris Hassid Segal captures a group of teenage girls as they complete their mandatory military service in the IDF.
Written by: Eva Clifford
‘Within me, there’s an addict and a saboteur’
Jenny Lewis goes it alone — After weathering one of the toughest storms of her life, the singer is back with a new album. She talks love, loss, and the importance of optimism.
Written by: Benjamin Cook
‘Women have only one way to survive: learning to fight’
Boxing in DRC — For decades, rape and other forms of sexual violence have become endemic in the DRC. In a new portrait series, photographer Alessandro Grassani captures the women who are finding strength through boxing.
Written by: Eva Clifford
The extraordinary rise of Japan's unlikely tattoo hero
The art of intimacy — Horiren 1st is one of the world’s most sought-after tattoo artists, celebrated for keeping the ancient Japanese method of Tebori alive. But in a country where body art is considered taboo, her journey to the top hasn’t been easy.
Written by: Michael Magers
Unearthing the old business cards of Chicago gangs
Almighty and Insane — Used in the 1960s and ’70s, these discreet slips of paper served as the ultimate status symbol for gang members across the city.
Written by: Miss Rosen
