“The Pope is getting Married” is, in theory, a cracking opening line. Things look even better when, within ten pages we get this crisp piece of dialogue: ‘ “How could you even think of defying me? I’m the fucking Pope!&[…]

link Between Davies and Beach Sts in Vancouver there are a series of apartment blocks built between 1950 and 1970, their lobbies gleaming with money and modernist hope, the fonts suggest hope for a future that seemed to gleam from Vancouver until the[…]

Helvetica vs Arial a tiny shockwave game for the hardcore typographer. Helvetica, the original sans-serif, has for too long been losing out to the classic pincer action of a younger, trendier, Meta coming in from above and the lousier, cheaper, Arial[…]

The South is doing wonders for the poetry scene in, well, the South, sticking its neck out to promote our writers and take on the projects everyone wants to do but somehow never gets to round to… unique events like tonight’s reading help […]

the mag with the pretty pictures and reviews that deep throat farther then linda lovelace ever had, has gone up 3 bucks and added 20 per cent more ad copy.
i had bought it every month for years, more and more disappointed, but still out of habit, an[…]

THE BROWN LOG: EDGE
What is the Brown Log? Part of the Wedge’s remit is talk about magazines. And where better to read magazines than on the bog? Every week I will buy a magazine – sometimes one I’d normally get, often one I’d[…]

UK Readers: if you’re reading this on Sunday, and you have a pound or so to spare, pick up a copy of The Observer. Its Sports Monthly has a special edition this week, with the ‘Fifty Greatest Sports Photographs’ – a good read,[…]

I work for an org that publishes a magazine and runs a gallery, and fairly often the former runs articles on work featured in the latter. Maybe it’s just because I love magazines so so so much that I quite often find I prefer the (yes v.high-st[…]

Well, I can say one good thing regarding Chuck Austen’s upcoming gigs on Action Comics and The Avengers – it’ll save me an extra couple of bucks every month. While his thoughts on what to do with Marvel’s Greatest Heroes soun[…]

or publisher, but I always assume debutantes to be female. It is the fault of the publisher that Gary Shteyngart’s The Russian Debutante’s Handbook has a picture of a woman on the cover. Whilst there are a few strong female characters in […]