2022 / Uk

Real Review is “what it means to live today”. Real Review assesses contemporary culture. Real Review looks backwards to look forwards. Real Review appears timely and timeless. Real Review interrogates the current mood. Real Review deconstructs everyday norms. Real Review reviews reality.

Issue 12—interview with archaeologist David Wengrow on the dawn of everything. Philosophers Slavoj Zizek and Timothy Morton agree about the future of humans on planet Earth. Design studio Metahaven contribute an insert on the stuff of experience and sensation. Photographer Tacita Dean captures a boat abandoned at sea. An essay by Ursula K. Le Guin reviews the Hero narrative, with photography by Magali Reus. Film curator Róisín Tapponi reviews fake nails, while Jack Self reviews lateral flow tests and mindfulness. And much more!

English, published quarterly
104 pages, 6/12 x 16 cm, Softback

2023 / US

Mother Tongue is a biannual print magazine that interrogates (and celebrates) modern motherhood through inclusive stories about art, sex, pop culture, politics, food and a few things in between. It’s not about kids or how to parent them: it’s about the nuanced lives we are living—as mothers, and much more. The magazine is edited by co-founders Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin and designed by creative director Vanessa Saba.

Issue 4—We talk fantasies (of the sexy lion kind) with Bat For Lashes, and Real Housewives (of the Jenna Lyons kind) with Sarah Hoover. We make sense of Whitney Houston with Amil Niazi and tend to songbirds of a different sort with artist Sheida Soleimani. We hit the road in Texas, as Dina Gachman takes us on a winding tale of revenge without remorse, and build a house for the future with Christene Barberich. Photographer Martina Zanin asks us to consider what happens when feline fixations go too far, and illustrator Rachel Deutsch conjures the everyday horror of our children’s unmeetable expectations. Photographer Sophie Ebrard contemplates sex and intimacy after children, author Angela Garbes bridges the mother-daughter divide, and Ruby Warrington and Pooja Lakshmin discuss whether having children even makes sense anymore?

English, published biannually
128 pages, 19 x 24 cm, softback

2022 / Uk

Real Review is “what it means to live today”. Real Review assesses contemporary culture. Real Review looks backwards to look forwards. Real Review appears timely and timeless. Real Review interrogates the current mood. Real Review deconstructs everyday norms. Real Review reviews reality.

Issue 13—MINING THE PAST

All times appear equally and at once. The past no longer recedes in an orderly way, but threatens to resurface at any moment in the guise of the contemporary. Nostalgia cycles are getting faster. Old material artefacts return as integral components of current trends. The future is no longer desirable or unforeseen. The contemporary is a mess of memetic references, where relevance is more valued than newness. Simultaneously, the chaos of our epoch masks a vast project of algorithmic derisking to make tomorrow identical to today: who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

English, published quarterly
104 pages, 6/12 x 16 cm, Softback

2018 / Spain

Polpettas On Paper is a biannual magazine about contemporary arts and culture. Issue 4 features interviews with artists Wendy Macnaughton, Osamu Yokonami, Ricardo Cases, Studio Swine, Barnaba Fornasetti, Edouard Taufenbach, Arunà Canevascini. Reportages by Fragmento Universo and Ignacio Bandera.

English + original versions, published biannually
160 pages, 17 x 24 cm, softback