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Introducing our new issue of Huck Magazine: It Starts With Us

Huck 84 — For our second 20th anniversary issue, we spotlight 20 people and groups providing the world with a hopeful future.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Huck

“Magazines are cultural artefacts”: magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie on the enduring importance of print

We love magazines — Despite the ever creeping digitalisation of the world and culture, physical objects are taking on different, yet vital, roles in culture today. Ella Glossop chats to one of London’s biggest proponents of the art about why we need to support independent publications.

  • Culture
  • Ella Glossop

“I didn’t care if I got sacked”: Sleazenation’s Scott King in conversation with Radge’s Meg McWilliams

Radgenation — For our 20th Anniversary Issue, Huck’s editor Josh Jones sits down with the legendary art director and the founder of a new magazine from England’s northeast to talk about taking risks, crafting singular covers and disrupting the middle class dominance of the creative industries.

  • Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue
  • Josh Jones

In photos: The newsagents keeping print alive

Save the stands — With Huck 83 hitting shelves around the world, we met a few people who continue to stock print magazines, defying an enduringly tough climate for physical media and the high street.

  • Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue
  • Ella Glossop

Huck’s 20th Anniversary Issue, Wu-Tang Clan is here

Life is a Journey — Fronted by the legendary Wu-Tang Clan’s spiritual leader RZA, we explore the space in between beginnings and endings, and the things we learn along the way.

  • Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue
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Tech once promised connection. Print magazines are delivering it

Touch paper — After years of retrenchment in the journalism and media industry, physical magazines are making a comeback. In Real Life Media founder Megan Wray Schertler diagnoses the state of the industry, while explaining the radical history of print and why we need it today.

  • Culture
  • Megan Wray Schertler
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Huck 82: The Music Issue is here

Give Me Space — Introducing our latest music themed issue, covered by Kojey Radical.

  • Music
  • Josh Jones

India’s bodybuilding boom reflects a nation flexing its muscles

Huck’s debut feature documentary reveals how young Indian men are willing to turn their backs on tradition and compete for a better life – even if it means sacrificing their health.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

Inside the indie print revolution: How to make your own magazine

With some of the world’s most prominent publishers facing difficulty and announcing layoffs, you’d be forgiven for thinking the publishing industry was on its last legs. In fact, the modern landscape is full of possibility.

  • Vans
  • Lydia Morrish

Inside Ireland’s first queer Gaelic football team

Wear your colours — As the country slowly frees itself from the grip of social conservatism, its national sports are modernising too, powered by a new generation of athletes and fans determined to create more inclusive spaces. At the forefront of this movement is Na Gaeil Aeracha, the country’s first ever queer GAA club.

  • Magazine
  • Róisín Lanigan

Huck Issue 77 is out now

It’s Mitski season — Our new magazine is here, starring the inimitable Mitski. Order your copy now and join us on a trip around the world.

  • Culture
  • Niall Flynn

The daredevil exploits of Dhanbad’s DIY stuntmen

Lift off — In Jharkhand state, a group of Indian riders are keeping a dying tradition alive. Welcome to the Death Well: a gravity-defying display of fearlessness that reimagines what’s possible on a two-wheeled machine.

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  • Niall Flynn

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