features

• EDITORIAL: the Ruritania issue
• IMAGINING THE COUNTRY: nationalism’s phantasmal landscapes. By Alistair Ian Blyth
• HOUSE ARREST: longing after live in the city. Photography by Alexander Coggin, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
• GREEN AND UNPLEASANT LAND: has the left abandoned the English countryside to the forces of reaction? By Joe Kennedy
• BON VOYAGE: non-player characters on an island escape. Photography by JP Bonino, art direction and styling by Alice Ray
• ESCAPE FROM THE COUNTRYSIDE: the fantasy of the countryside as a liberating paradise holds an increasing allure for the precarious generations. By Lamorna Ash, photography by Robin Friend
• THE RETURN: village chic in Sheshanzhen. Photography by Xiaopeng Yuan, styling by Macci Leung
• ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT PEOPLE: the buildings where we keep the world. By Liam Young
• BIG SCHOOL: self-reliant servicemen and Maoist propaganda. By Guy Mackinnon-Little
• RADIO TANK: country music sells it’s soul. By Chris Reitz, illustration by Benjamin Filby
• FORTITUDE RANCH: survival capabilities and recreation opportunities. Photography by Torso Solutions, styling by Hamish Wirgman
• THE REPUBLIC: Mitchell Anderson presents the value of houses owned by the families of his artistic peers
• GREEN LABOUR: Labour’s recent electoral success is rooted in its visionary redistributive politics, but what do they offer to slow the impending climate crisis? By Kia Golsorkhi-Ainslie
• EXECUTIVE REALNESS: dressed for the role. Photography by Anthony Seklaoui, styling by Bobby Hook
• TEMPLE OF THE SCAPEGOAT: film-maker and philosopher Alexander Kluge in conversation with Claudia Steinberg
• COOL FACTOR: take the heat off. Photography by Chus Antón, styling by Alicia Padrón
• IN OLYMPOS: in the ruins of an ancient city, reclaimed by nature. By Kinza Shenn, photography by Alice Zoo
• BACK TO FRONT: don’t look at the camera. Photography by Sigurd Grünberger, styling by Simon Winkelmüller
• THE ROARING INSIDE HER: femininity, nature and horror. By Phillipa Snow
• DECOUPE: Eva Stenram interprets Anthony Vaccarello’s radical new cut at Saint Laurent
• MIRROR MIRROR by Christabel Stewart