Magazine of the year: Victory Journal

Victory Journal is unapologetically big. It towers over the other magazines on the newsstand. Yet with its focus on the “intersection between sports and culture”, it is about much more than sporting prowess, size or strength. Through large-format photography and text, Victory examines sport’s peripheries as much as its participants – and it does so […]

John Minton: Drawn from Life

A new book on the work of artist John Minton reasserts his hugely significant contribution to British illustration and key role in shaping the look of book design in the post-war years

Untypical Girls

Untypical Girls traces the history of women in punk and indie music, and features rare and brilliant documentary photography of bands stretching from 1977 to 1993. We talk to the book’s author, Sam Knee, about his love of this era of music and why it is important to remember the women of the scene.

Photography book of the year: Generation Wealth

An examination of how wealth and consumerism has changed society, Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth had a particular resonance in the year that Donald Trump became US President. Running to over 600 pages of glossy, glamorous photographs, it might initially appear to be another luxury coffee table book. Yet its subject matter is far more urgent […]