The Stack

Strap on your shin pads and pump up your balls: we’re commentating on the state of football publications. From newsstand stalwarts to US upstarts, there’s something out there for every fan of the beautiful game.

One of the world’s foremost editorial designers talks us through a trio of his longest-running projects. Plus: our editor in chief tells us what he thinks the future of southern California’s pre-eminent legacy newspaper should be and we review a title offering a glimpse into the private spaces of the global creative class.

From the sartorial to the subcontinental, this week we take a closer look at three magazines that take the expectations of you, the reader, and throw them back in your face like an old sock.

Stig Abell has a vision of how that most tweedy of titles – the *Times Literary Supplement* – should sit on a 21st-century newsstand. Plus: a distinctly Iberian lifestyle publication that has made the leap from digital to print and an award-winning magazine taking a closer look at mental health.

Grab your tackle and steady your rod: we cast our net out into the wide world of fishing with a magazine celebrating the angling lifestyle. Plus: ‘The New York Times’ releases a regular kids section and we meet one of the best art-book designers in the business.

Stretch your quads and lace up your trainers: we’re burning off our festive paunches with an invigorating jog through the pages of a new running magazine. Plus: how a legacy psychology title gets inside our heads, and Jeremy Leslie surveys the state of print going into the new year.

We take stock of another year in discussion with the most important editors, designers and industry figures in print.

We speak to the author of a new book celebrating the career of a UK magazine that changed the way youth culture was covered in print. Plus: Scandinavian men and the relaunch of a beloved Japanese journal for city girls.

A legacy title steps out of its comfort zone with a standalone spin-off focused on food, and we explore the pleasures and sorrows of covering technology in print. Plus, a new style and culture journal from Nottingham.

Launched a successful magazine? Why not take the next logical step and dip your to into the world of book publishing? Today, one of our favourite travel journals goes hardbound. Plus: the man who can make all your newsprint dreams come true and a food publication to whet your appetite.