Volume 15 Issue 5

  • The History Of Dad

    My father Stephen has done a lot of pretty cool things that have been significant in recent British history. He started something called the Boilerhouse Project at the V&A in the 80s, set up the Design Museum, wrote a book called Sex, Drink and Fast...

  • This Guy Hunts Down Nazis

    Dr. Efraim Zuroff oversees Operation: Last Chance, an organization that tracks down the remaining geriatric dickheads who were responsible for the Holocaust.

  • Our Father

    Illustrations by Brian Degraw, Jon Vermilyea, Laura Park, Victor Cayro, Aran Darling & Milano Chow.

  • Shafted

    Harry S. Truman once said, "America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." But that's bullshit: It was built by thieves, drunks, and whores whose job at hand was giving hand jobs.

  • John Cheever Goes Under

    In 1974, John Cheever accepted a teaching position at Boston University, the better to distance himself from his family and drink in peace.

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  • Bloodclot!

    One morning on my way to work, hungover and feeling sorry for myself, I ran into John Joseph, who I knew a little bit through our mutual friends in the hardcore scene in New York.

  • History On Repeat Forever And Ever

    Ophelia Field is a young and articulate graduate of Christ Church College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. She knows a lot more than you about the early 18th Century.

  • Literary

    We recently got our hands on a few “history” books a friend of ours brought back from Pyongyang.

  • The Diseases Of Our Leaders

    Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. That's what someone said.

  • There's Something Going On That's Not Quite Right

    Wire occupy a special place in the history of London 77. Unlike all the bands who broke up after losing steam only to cash in 20 years down the road with reunion after reunion, they never lost steam.

  • I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore

    I've always had this belief that if you produce something beautiful, and it's packaged beautifully and has had some love and attention invested in it, then somebody will want it.