Issue 19 - Out Now!
Plus: the 10th Anniversary of Escape Everything!
The real June newsletter will hit inboxes later in the month. For now, here’s an all-important announcement. We have a new print edition.
New Escapologist is the magazine for pleasure seekers, dreamers, shoestring iconoclasts, tinkerers, skivers, believers, and dilettantes. We’re for those who don’t like conventional employment, unthinking consumerism, meetings, marketing, and default mediocrity. Join our mass exodus and be free.
In this edition, we ask if “Do What Thou Wilt” could ever be an adequate moral system. We also take off our clothes for money, escape into Virtual Reality, reject the Return-to-Office mandate, write our wills, and explore marital politics through the writings of Sayaka Murata.
We present new columns from Tom Hodgkinson, Apala Chowdhury, Dickon Edwards and McKinley Valentine, plus interviews with Stuckist artist Ella Guru and signmaker-musician Rob Glover. Reader, the escape valve is open and it whistles a beguiling tune.
Available now from our online shop.
As if that weren’t enough, this month also sees the publication of the tenth anniversary edition of Escape Everything!
Escape Everything! is a guide to escape, dodging, and scarpering. The seminal text of Escapology.
We are all trapped by modern life. Trapped! Trapped by work, consumerism, stress, debt, isolationism and general unhappiness.
We will each spend an average of 87,000 hours at work before we die. We will spend another 5,000 hours getting to and from work and countless more preparing for work. Worrying about work. Recovering from work.
The majority of us hate our jobs. But without work, we can’t buy all the things we’ve been told we should want and need, so around we go…
Through the pages of New Escapologist magazine, Robert Wringham has been studiously examining the traps of modern life, questioning where our commitment to them stems from and why we are so unable to break free.
Taking inspiration from the great Escapologist Harry Houdini – who escaped from jail cells, straitjackets, and even the innards of a dead whale – Wringham applies Houdini’s feats as a metaphor for real life, proposing the principle of Escapology as a way to cut loose our shackles.
Become a modern-day Escapologist and freedom and happiness might be possible after all.
Available now from our online shop. Strictly limited while stocks last.
Thank you everyone. I hope you will enjoy a slight escape from the tyranny of screens for these cheerful print editions. I’ll be back in your inboxes with a proper newsletter in a week or so.
Escape well,
Robert Wringham
Editor, New Escapologist
www.newescapologist.co.uk
I've had my copy since the original printing with the Houdini cover! Read cover to cover many times, and thoroughly enjoyed. Many congrats on an excellent 10th anniversay reprint!