issue 2 / amalita

'Almost all crime is due to a repressed desire for aesthetic expression.' 

– Evelyn Waugh, 1928

"Honey, if it hurts so much why are we going shopping?"

- Carrie, Sex and the City, 2003

This Must Be the Place

Big In Japan

Sam Clarke

Burma and Japan; a photo essay.

Charli XCX and the Phenomenon of Modern Pop

Nicholas Hayden

Music in the shadow of Madonna and Sade, and what makes Charli XCX's 'Boys' so distinctive.

THE SPAGHETTI SLASHER

content presents the mesmerizing new film from Eilidh Page Morrissey.

in conversation with the filmmakers behind 'The Feast'

an interview with the director, producers, writers & food stylist behind short film The Feast (2017, in post-production); "a dystopian fairytale about (metaphorical) hunger."

- Katrina Russell

Picasso: Pity and Terror

Cosima Stewart

On the compulsion - and repulsion - of Picasso, as revealed by Pity and Terror: Picasso’s Path to Guernica, Museo Reina Sofia.

Warm and Wet Bison / a memo poem

Katharina Joy

Shoes at the Fair

"If you build it, they will come." Photographer & artist Andy Burgess explores the significance of footwear at art fairs.

Beirut Antennae

Sebastian Andersson 

Picasso at Gagosian: What's behind the green curtain?

Chloe Schneider dissects the spatial and spectacular staging of the artist's work at Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors, Gagosian London.

kettle screams

short fiction from Clara van Wel.

BODY/GENITALIA

A drawn essay exploring depictions of the female form.

 Ksenia Levina