Art

Here’s where you can find our favourite sexy books, from Japanese erotica and raunchy magazines to a compassionate peek into the sex industry.

From New York drag bars to Japanese idol culture, slender winter days are for powering through slender books such as these.

Issue 12: Introducing musicians Flowerovlove and Yunè Pinku, designer Freya McKee, artist Navinder Nangla, filmmakers Jonah and Stan, actor Sheyi Cole and TikTok sensation Nizzythakidd.

Worms magazine’s Clem MacLeod and artist Stephanie Francis-Shanahan’s new project encourages us to embrace softening up for a better world. Hear, hear.

The multidisciplinary artist has just released A Sphinx Looking For a Poet, a collection of poems written in Parisian solitude that’ll have you lunging for the suitcase.

Having worked together for six years in the early ’80s, Ortiz (aka LA II) hugely influenced Haring’s practice, before his own legacy fell to the wayside. With a new London exhibition, King of Hearts, the artist proudly reclaims it.