Journal — reading the cultural index
The issues.
The Journal is published in volumes, six issues a year. Every issue gathers a season of pathways, dispatches, field notes and one new region of the map — composed around a single editorial preoccupation.
Volumes III
Issues 15
Per year six
Editors 7
— Current issue · open
The corridor.
Four weeks on the city the canon keeps forgetting — Lispector in São Paulo, the Boom and its limits, and the question of who the index has been organised around. Edited from São Paulo by Sophia Velez.
In this issue
№ 01 The architecture of longing Pathway · 8 works · ~13 hrs Founding editor Mira Asai № 02 Tokyo ↔ Hong Kong, in dialogue Field map · Dialogue note Cartography The Editors № 03 Letter from the corridor Dispatch · 4 min read From Tokyo Mira Asai № 04 A slow re-read: Norwegian Wood Reading room · 12 readers · in residence Group reading The room № 05 Tokyo · the long persistence Region · Archived this issue Field note Mira Asai The archive.
Vol. III The cartographic turn
№ 14 May, MMXXVI The corridor. On the architecture of the in-between Wong Kar-wai · Murakami · slow cinema Founding editor Mira Asai № 13 March, MMXXVI The second album. On what follows the breakthrough Burna Boy · Marvin Gaye · The Bends Lagos correspondent Tiana Okoye № 12 January, MMXXVI The map and the rumor. How a place enters a canon Atlas · annotation · field notes Editorial collective The Editors № 11 November, MMXXV Anti-discovery. On the algorithm's confidence problem Recommendation · refusal · taste Critic, Berlin Felix Vermehr Vol. II Three correspondents, four cities
№ 10 September, MMXXV Re-reading. On the books you have already read Calvino · Sebald · the marginalia Founding editor Mira Asai № 09 July, MMXXV Glass and neon. The cities that look at themselves Wong Kar-wai · Hou Hsiao-hsien · William Gibson Hong Kong contributor Lina Pang № 08 May, MMXXV The long letter. On the boom & the literature of repair García Márquez · Rulfo · magical realism Mexico City contributor Carla Sandoval № 07 March, MMXXV The shape of a room. On interiors and inheritance Architecture · domesticity · objects Editorial collective The Editors № 06 January, MMXXV The desert and the cold. Landscapes that refuse the camera Tarkovsky · Sjón · the empty image Iceland correspondent Sefa Ehrlich Vol. I Founding year
№ 05 November, MMXXIV On taste, slowly. Against the verdict economy Sontag · Berger · the long look Founding editor Mira Asai № 04 September, MMXXIV The minor key. Cinemas of the small and exact Akerman · Hong Sang-soo · Davies Critic, Berlin Felix Vermehr № 03 July, MMXXIV The boom letter. Latin America as a single conversation Cortázar · Borges · the boom Mexico City contributor Carla Sandoval № 02 May, MMXXIV The neon edition. Hong Kong, twice over Wong Kar-wai · pop · the 90s Hong Kong contributor Lina Pang № 01 March, MMXXIV Founding issue. What is this for Manifesto · principles · the index Editorial collective The Editors Forthcoming · № 16
Correspondences.
The editors write on letters — real ones, slow ones, the kind that arrive a month after they were sent. Two correspondents, four cities, one question about what the letter form does that no other form can.
Opens
July 2026
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