Issues

The Toe Rag is published three times a year – in February, June and October.

Issue 8: Decadence

SPRING/SUMMER 2026

8 level oceans by Anne Carson
Editor’s Letter
Page 3: ABLONDI by Polina Boyko
Epic Performance: Sophie Barshall in conversation with Marina Abramović and Anne Imhof
Art Review: Jean Watt on Elizabeth Englander at a. SQUIRE
Art Review: Rachel Dastgir on Dom Sylvester Houédard at TINA
Art Review: Grace Tomlinson on Nat Faulkner at Camden Art Centre
Book Review: Connor Harrison on The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
Book Review: James Vincent on Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers
Book Review: Huda Awan on A Fictional Inquiry by Daniele Del Giudice
Hyperpolitics: A Grin Without a Cat by Anton Jäger
The Most Extreme Reduction of Love by Philippa Snow
What Do I Know? by Katie Kadue
An excerpt of BABY by Ann Rower
Beyond Necessity: Decadence and Suicide Capital by Stephen Squibb
Cartoons by Giulia Ley
Decadence Obsédé by A. V. Marraccini
Bananna Karenina by The Pegram Collection and Alex Heard
Manifest Manipulate Masturbate by Emil Woudenberg
coupon (give your life to the objects you have surrounded yourself with) by Dilara Koz
Extract from Leo Tolstoy’s diary, 29th February, 1897
Beautiful Coastal Home Industrial Complex by Claire Carroll
Positivity by Stuart McKenzie
The Shock of the Now by Hector Campbell
Editor’s Listings
Decadence Playlist by feeo
Tackle Me! by Sophie Howe and Maya King-Dabbs
Burnout Lux by Mary Jet Anderson
Knitting Pattern for Ponty Hat by Ilana Blumberg
Horoscopes by Isabella Greenwood
How to Dress Like You’re a Dancer for Pina Bausch by Katy Trame
Phyllis Stein, Agony Aunt by Ethan Price

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Issue 7: The Pastoral

AUTUMN/WINTER 2025-2026

Garland by Oliver Leith, Charlie Fox and Ellen Poppy Hill
Editor’s Letter
Relaxing Nature Ambience Meditation by Alma Feigis
Kissing until YouTube finishes playing the ads by Dani Marcel
Page 3 with Cosey Fanni Tutti
What does ‘the pastoral’ mean today?: David Blandy, Lorenzo Giusti, Andy Holden, Rose Higham-Stainton, hn. lyonga, Naeem Mohaiemen, Grace Nicol, Filipa Ramos, Slavs and Tatars, Territorial Agency, Institute for Postnatural Studies & Georg Wilson
Art Review: Pablo Bronstein at Waddesdon Manor, by Nicole-Ann Lobo
Art Review: Rebecca Ackroyd at Ginny on Frederick, by Amie Corry
Film Review: Eddington by Ari Aster, by Katie Kadue
Film Review: What Does That Nature Say to You by Hong Sang-soo, by Alex Clark
Book Review: Fresh, Green Life by Sebastian Castillo, by Noah Perez
Getting in touch with Rachael Allen and Joe Dunthorne, by Em Bauer
Summer by Joe Dunthorne
They Are Liming The Valley by Em Bauer
The Poverty of the Pastoral by Greg Afinogenov
Sample Paragraph by Bhanu Kapil
Hergian, a Still Life by Nick Norton
El matarife / The Slaughterer by Arístides Vega Chapú, translated by Chris John Poole
Gertrud’s Garden by Fanny Howe
Mosquito by Issa Quincy
On For the Love of by Peli Grietzer
The Modern Male Yearns for the Steppe by Sam Kriss
Midline by Allegra Mullan
Agriturismo by Niven Govinden
The Happy Tenant by Cecilia Tricker
Wadi Al-Seer, 1967 by Sufwan Najjar
Fixed Points by Isabel Trindade
The Shock of the Now with Hector Campbell
Editor’s Listings
Broadcasting by Jame St Findlay
Cryptic Crossword by Temperance
Recipe for Cider by Tom Kew Gregory
Mohair Mitts Knitting Pattern by Ilana Blumberg
Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK
Horoscopes by Isabella Greenwood
Pastoral 80s Playlist by Christian Flamm
Phyllis Stein, Agony Aunt by Ethan Price

Issue 6: Artefacts

SUMMER 2025

Cover Rat Section by Alessia Gunawan
Cartoon by Athen Kardashian
Editor’s Letter
An apple, browning, half eaten by Lara Sugar Hughes
I Love You / I Hate You / Look at Your Hands: Jordan Wolfson on Little Room, by Sophie Barshall
Art Review: Fake Barn Country at Raven Row, by Anne Kimunguyi
Art Review: Ed Atkins at Tate Britain, by Kathryn Lloyd
Art Review: Alexandra Metcalf at The Perimeter, by Cindy Ziyun Huang
Film Review: Money Shot: exergue – on documenta 14 by Dimitris Athiridis, by Rachel Dastgir
Book Review: Aug 9 – Fog by Kathryn Scanlan, by Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe
In Conversation: Natasha Stagg & Madeline Cash on Grand Rapids
In The Archive by Ebun Sodipo
Return by Sarah Shin
The Ghosts of Orsay – L'origine du monde by Sophie Calle
From Still Lives by Sammi Gale
Forged objects and invented worlds by Marisa Müsing & Frederika Tevebring
Interview: The Aviary Tapes, with Rat Section. Photographed by Alessia Gunawan.
Remembering the outcast dead by Rosa Appignanesi
In Search Of Legacy Music Software by Suren Seneviratne
A Cruel Way of Seeing: On Sensitivity and the New War Photography by Udith Dematagoda
Return & Snake Planet by Sarah Shin
Dirty Thirty by Aled Maclean-Jones
Two examples of short-form video content viewed in March 2025 (PRAYER FOR THYROID & SUPER DEPRESSED) by Matilda Munro
Purity & Danger: Male Chastity Belt by Sylvie Makower & Dora Pruskin
A dream is the same by Ben Pester
Sunday Poems I, II, III by Rashed Aqrabawi
Buckets of Aeons by Martha Irwin
Casual Chandeliers by Susan Finlay
I’m So Disappointed In You by Daria Blum
Horoscopes by Isabella Greenwood
Recipe: Wheaten Bread by Oisín Davies
Knitting Pattern for Rag Bag by Ilana Blumberg
The Shock of The Now by Hector Campbell
Editor’s Listings
How to Seduce Your GP in 10 Steps by Sophie Howe and Maya King-Dabbs
Crossword by Temperance
Phyllis Stein, Agony Aunt by Ethan Price

Issue 5: Technology

SPRING 2025

FEATURING: Oluwatobiloba Ajayi, Viviana Almas, Edie Ashley, Hector Campbell, William Cobbing, Victoria Comstock-Kershaw, Rosa Crepax, Floss Crossley, Fin Cousins, Caro Eisen, Olivia Erlanger, damsel Elysium, Alma Feigis, James Fuller, Isabella Greenwood, (LA)HORDE, Phin Jennings, Athen Kardashian, Chris Kraus, On Yee Lo, Ananya Mishra, Lola Olufemi, Noah Perez, Ethan Price, Oliver Riba, Magnus Rena, Rechonski, Stacy Skolnik, Molly Soda, Ella Slater, Stephen Squibb, Jay Temperance, Archie Taylor, Paige Turner & Emily Zuberec.

Issue 4: GAMES & RULES

AUTUMN/WINTER 2024

FEATURING: Olivia Allen, Ilana Blumberg, CAConrad, Hector Campbell, Matthew Cheale, Sam Cottington, Nina Cristante, Jesse Darling, Oliver Evans, Ed Fornieles, Peli Grietzer, Isabella Greenwood, Chiara Haefliger, Will Hainsworth, Geumhyung Jeong, Athen Kardashian, Tom K Kemp, Sharon Kivland, Dilara Koz, Hongxi Li, Inge-Vera Lipsius, Whitney Mallett, Dani Marcel, James Martin, Lily McMenamy, Thomas McMullan, Peter Miller, Sam Moore, Allegra Mullan, Gabriella Nugent, Ethan Price, Lucila Safdie, Carina Kehlet Schou, Jay Temperance, Amalia Ulman & Ben Ware.

Issue 3: Dream Work

SUMMER 2024

FEATURING: Nour Ben Saïd, Jacob Barnes, Matthew Barney, Daria Blum, Chanel Beads, Ilana Blumberg, Jip Boxstart, Bertie Brandes, ML Buch, Hector Campbell, Guendalina Cerruti, Irina Costin, Lu Rose Cunningham, Nina Davies, Marie Davidson, Ben Ditto, Will Ferreira Dyke, Monique Fei, Douglas Gordon, Isabella Greenwood, Miles Greenberg, Athen Kardashian, Graham Lambkin, Laila Majid, Isabel MacCarthy, Aram Masharqa, Vee Matsumari, Crystal Murray, Louis Blue Newby, Max Peston, Kembra Pfahler, Bart Price, Georgina Quach, Oisín Roberts, RALLY Festival, Sebastián Sánchez-Schilling, Coumba Samba, Dean Sameshima, Rosa Sittig-Bell, Ella Slater, Mary Stephenson, Adam Stamp, Jay Temperance, Katy Trame, Evie Ward, Robert Wilson, Lena Willikens, Henry Woodland, Alfred Yatlong Yeung & Bea Ysolda.

Issue 2: Consumption

SPRING 2024

FEATURING: Oluwatobiloba Ajayi, Alvaro Barrington, Isa Barzizza, Ilana Blumberg, Betsey Brown, Hector Campbell, Aria Dean, Georgia Gordon, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Isabella Greenwood, Sofia Hallström, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Tiger Hornby, Athen Kardashian, Colton Karpman, Lena Pola Leszczynska, Margaret Liang, Millie O'Connor, I.W. Payne, Matteo Pini, Pope.L, Ethan Price, Jago Rackham, Maddy Routon, Cooking Sections, Diyora Shadijanova, Gabrielle Sicam, Eduard Solaz, Maria Sowter, Phyllis Stein, Lily Samarine, Sung Tieu & Pol Wah Tse.

Issue 1: Locality

WINTER 2023

FEATURING: Thibault Aedy, Em Bauer, Ilana Blumberg, Hector Campbell, Nina Davies, Yasmin N.D, Niamh Glanville-Frayne, Isabella Greenwood, Tayshan Hayden-Smith, Haseeb Iqbal, Luk Man Hon, Athen Kardashian, Isabel MacCarthy, Valentina Magaletti, Paul McGann, Solomon Garçon, Arthur Osofsky, Archie Owen, Max Peston, Planningtorock, Jem Perucchini, Inez de Rijke, Sebastián Sánchez-Schilling, Sin Wai Kin, Jame St Findlay, Liv Thomas, Gray Wielebinski & Lydia Wilford.

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