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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 SquibbCartoons 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 KozExtract 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 Pointy 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 OUT NOW Issue 7: The Pastoral AUTUMN/WINTER 2025-2026 Garland by Oliver Leith, Charlie Fox and Ellen Poppy HillEditor’s Letter Relaxing Nature Ambience Meditation by Alma Feigis Kissing until YouTube finishes playing the ads by Dani MarcelPage 3 with Cosey Fanni TuttiWhat 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 &amp; Georg Wilson Art Review: Pablo Bronstein at Waddesdon Manor, by Nicole-Ann LoboArt Review: Rebecca Ackroyd at Ginny on Frederick, by Amie CorryFilm Review: Eddington by Ari Aster, by Katie KadueFilm Review: What Does That Nature Say to You by Hong Sang-soo, by Alex ClarkBook Review: Fresh, Green Life by Sebastian Castillo, by Noah PerezGetting in touch with Rachael Allen and Joe Dunthorne, by Em BauerSummer by Joe Dunthorne They Are Liming The Valley by Em BauerThe Poverty of the Pastoral by Greg AfinogenovSample Paragraph by Bhanu KapilHergian, a Still Life by Nick Norton El matarife / The Slaughterer by Arístides Vega Chapú, translated by Chris John PooleGertrud’s Garden by Fanny HoweMosquito by Issa Quincy On For the Love of by Peli GrietzerThe Modern Male Yearns for the Steppe by Sam KrissMidline by Allegra MullanAgriturismo by Niven GovindenThe Happy Tenant by Cecilia TrickerWadi Al-Seer, 1967 by Sufwan NajjarFixed Points by Isabel TrindadeThe Shock of the Now with Hector CampbellEditor’s ListingsBroadcasting by Jame St Findlay Cryptic Crossword by TemperanceRecipe for Cider by Tom Kew Gregory Mohair Mitts Knitting Pattern by Ilana BlumbergOpen letter on the future of small press publishing in the UKHoroscopes by Isabella Greenwood Pastoral 80s Playlist by Christian FlammPhyllis Stein, Agony Aunt by Ethan Price Issue 6: Artefacts SUMMER 2025 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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; SUPER DEPRESSED) by Matilda Munro Purity &amp; Danger: Male Chastity Belt by Sylvie Makower &amp; 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&nbsp;by Sophie Howe and Maya King-Dabbs Crossword by Temperance Phyllis Stein, Agony Aunt by Ethan Price Issue 5: Technology SPRING 2025 FEATURING:&nbsp;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 &amp; Emily Zuberec.&nbsp; Issue 4: GAMES &amp; RULES AUTUMN/WINTER 2024FEATURING:&nbsp;Olivia Allen, Ilana Blumberg, CAConrad, Hector Campbell, Matthew Cheale, Sam Cottington, Nina Cristante, Jesse Darling, Oliver Evans, Ed Fornieles, Peli Grietzer,&nbsp;Isabella Greenwood, Chiara Haefliger, Will Hainsworth,&nbsp;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 &amp; Ben Ware. 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