Monocle Issue 183

With each issue based around a single object, MacGuffin magazine is a platform for fans of inspiring, personal, unexpected, highly familiar or utterly disregarded things. Widely recognized as a fabously designed and immaculately researched design & crafts biannual, it is an indispensable resource for all those who want backstage information about the Life of Things. From the Apartheid wall in Palestine to the digital paywall, from memorial murals in Jamaica to the increasingly tall glass facades of modern office blocks, walls testify to the tumult of history and humanity’s ceaseless urge to communicate and to sow division. They force us to reflect on the paradoxes of openness and isolation, of enclosure and exclusion. In a world drowning in borders, barriers and barbed-wire fences, this issue of MacGuffin pauses for thought and asks: What exactly do we want to express or protect? And why? 216 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb Language: English

230 x 300 mm, 314 pages London & Amsterdam (English language) Biannual Editor-in-chief: Penny Martin Art director: Merel van den Berg The Autumn/Winter issue of The Gentlewoman is here, starring musician Chaka Khan framed by a rich plum on the cover. Plus, inside: Maggi Hambling, Alia Shawkat, Oriole Cullen and Lydia Ko interviewed, together with an essential oral history of the groundbreaking seventies women’s press Virago.