TANK MAGAZINE | The Summer Reader 2023 | Issue 95 | BUY THIS ISSUE
fronting
- EATING YOUR WORDS: a letter from the editor-in-chief
- MANIFESTO: how does the stylist create meaning?
- PALE FIRE: the last shadow puppets in Haider Ackermann + Fila
- STROKE OF THE CANE: Gucci Bamboo hangs in the balance
- THE TALENT: London-based designers creating stories in clothes
- FRANCESCA HAYWARD: the art of movement with the prima ballerina
- APARTMENT, INTERIOR, DAY: accessories in silver-screen action
- COTTAGE INDUSTRIES: take a trip to the cabin in the woods with Versace Jeans Couture
- GO LIGHTLY: meadowsweet gems by Graff
- LA SALADE NIÇOISE: delicious nails by Chanel
- RARE SPECTACLES: reframe the world with Akoni
features
- | Summer Reader | WHAT YOU READING FOR? reworking the books issue
- IS THE NOVEL A BOURGEOIS FORM?: semiotics studio Axis Mundi break down the new publishing paradigm
- PUBLISHING IN BLACK AND WHITE: visualising the industry
- IN MY GOOD BOOKS: Barbara Epler on the best recently-published fiction
- WHAT'S GOING ON IN LITERARY PUBLISHING?: fiction editors weigh in
- TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR: the book as self-improvement. By Ed Luker
- GRACE AND ANNIHILATION: László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Claudia Steinberg
- LEVIATHAN: the body of the novel. By Louis Rogers
- A CONCORDANCE OF LYNNE TILLMAN: what’s in a word?
- HOW IT’S MADE: Sarah Brouillette on marketisation, literary aspiration and the state of criticism
- FINE LINES: writers on sentences
- INTO THE SUBLIME: Anahid Nersessian on Keats and Marx
- BOOKTOK: an anthropological approach to a new critical infrastructure. By Matteo Pini
- UNCOMMON TONGUE: translators respond to our questions on the art of the craft
- WHAT IS AN ART BOOK FOR?: editors and artists respond
- COLLECTOR’S ITEMS: Kirsty Bell on art books
- WHAT WOULD EMMA DO?: a letter to Marc Camille Chaimowicz
- PRINTWORKS: making the news. By Eloise Hawser
- DARK AND DEEP: into the weeds with Mark Rylance
fashion
- UNCANNY VALLEY: Hollywood is calling. Photography by Pietro Cocco, styling by Tea Barbagallo
- A STITCH IN TIME: Chanel takes a new collection from Dakar to Paris. Photography by Goldie Williams, styling by Caroline Issa
- HORIBIL CREATCHERS: living on the edgelands. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, art direction and styling by Alice Ray
talks
- GARY YOUNGE: “Identity is a great place to start in politics, but a terrible place to finish”
- CATHERINE OPIE: “Photography as a medium makes it difficult not to create constant clichés”
- ROSANNA MCLAUGHLIN: “These days we live under the tyranny of relatable first-person writing”
- STEVEN PHILLIPS-HORST AND LILY MAROTTA: “On the podcast, we see the world as a place imbued with performance”
- ANGEL OTERO: “I’m curious about responding to chance”
- RÓISÍN TAPPONI: “Truly independent cinema is not just independently distributed but independently produced”
- EMMA WARREN: “We know the dance is political because those with political power legislate against it”
- FRIDTJOF RYDER: “Over a year and a half of writing, whatever interests you starts to bleed in”
- ALEKSANDAR HEMON: “It’s hard for us to see the edges of history when we’re living it”
- MICHAEL BRACEWELL: “I don’t know if there’s any point trying to write a literary work unless you actually need to do it”
