CAW Journal is a worker-run anarchist platform publishing interviews, essays and short fiction on art, culture and politics. Its issues in this sample include an artist interview series on keeping creative practice alive in hard times, a podcast-style conversation about science and representation in Star Trek, and a personal essay-style short story about girlhood.
Website: https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
An artist-author shares behind-the-scenes accounts of how his paintings, especially the Dinotopia series, were made. Readers get practical detail on preparatory studies, model posing, maquettes and sources of inspiration.
A literary newsletter by novelist Elif Shafak that weaves reflections on paintings, books, folklore and storytelling traditions with drawn-from-notebook anecdotes and news of her own work. Readers get personal, essayistic meditations on how stories and ideas travel across cultures.
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