The Alpine Review
A slow magazine for turbulent times
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I was the co-editor of The Alpine Review, which we liked to call a slow magazine for turbulent times. It was a tough creature to describe, but my favourite attempt is in Ruth Jamieson’s excellent book Print is Dead, Long Live Print, where she describes it as “The Economist’s cooler, better dressed sister.”
Other than that, I’ll just say that before I was asked to join as an editor, I thought of it as one of the most exciting independent mags on the planet. Over 400 or so annual-ish pages, we had a lot of fun, with a lot of great writers, traversing time and space and playing with the big questions of what and why we are, who we’ve been and who we will be.
I steered the ship for Issue 3 alongside Louis-Jacques Darveau, working with the brilliant team of Elise Eskanazi, Anna Duckworth, John Di Palma and Eli Burnstein. Here’s magCulture’s review of the issue, where it was magazine of the week and they said nice things.