Learn how to smash big tech with Cory Doctorow, plus why you don't need to worry about AI, Cath Kidston's new venture, Stewart Lee's music picks, Murray Lachlan Young and more
Issue 89 of the essential magazine for good living features pop legend Lawrence, David Graeber on liberty and pirates, plus the great Idler work survey. And columns from Stewart Lee, Rachel Kelly, Arthur Smith and Virginia Ironside.
Here is issue 87 of Tom Hodgkinson's essential magazine for good living. Meet Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, discover why Socrates was cynical about politics, and learn about the idling academies of 17th century Naples.
Irvine Welsh reveals his writing secrets, Lewis Carroll on why he hates the sea, slow train to Stockholm, the busy world of Richard Scarry, lazy heroes of fairy tales plus Stewart Lee, Virginia Ironside and Mark Vernon.
The cheering journal of merry philosophy, featuring Richard Coles on his new life by the sea, plus Virginia Ironside, Stewart Lee, Ukrainian fashion, Modern Toss and more
The inspiring life of punk priestess Gina Birch, shocking tales from the Cynics of ancient Athens, Arthur Smith's best benches, joys of the e-bike, astrology in Middle Ages, plus sheds, beer, beekeeping and Stewart Lee's pop picks
The Idler is a literary and philosophical lifestyle periodical edited by Tom Hodgkinson. This instalment features an interview with Jarvis Cocker about his memoir Good Pop Bad Pop, a guide to mudlarking, Arthur Smith on teachers, Kate Rew on the history of outdoor swimming, Stewart Lee on music and Seb Falk on medieval aastrology.
