Small is Beautiful

Issue Eleven is here!

New Escapologist 11: Small is Beautiful

The economy, global politics, the military-industrial complex: such huge and unwieldy concepts combine to give us headaches. We feel ineffective against them, bewildered by their magnitude and complexity.

But wait! Not everything needs to be huge, fast, violent. What of the modest, the domestic, the direct? In Issue Eleven of New Escapologist, we abandon the big ideas to celebrate the humanity and dignity of the small.
 

We discuss the work of ‘70s thinker E. F. Schumacher whose book Small is Beautiful deserves a renaissance; Justin Reynolds explores the the craft and vision of William Morris (pictured above); Robert Wringham puts tardigrades under the microscope; Drew Gagne makes wine in British Columbia; Michael Brooke skateboards for peace and liberty; and Aislinn Clarke looks at brightly-plumaged street sellers; and we reprint Bob Black’s important 1985 essay The Abolition of Work.
 

Illustrated throughout by artists from Montreal, Chicago, Belfast, Lilliput and Beyond.

Available at the shop now.

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We also have two new magazine bundles available: Issues 1-7 and 8-11.