The Happy Reader Issue 19 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. For this issue’s cover, inimitable actress TILDA SWINTON talks to the novelist Deborah Levy. In this landmark conversation Tilda looks into both the past and the future, seeking out the contours of how encounters with the work of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Muriel Spark shaped her worldview.
The Happy Reader Issue 18 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. On the cover, photographer Davey Adésida captures the immeasurable energy of DIANE VON FURSTENBERG.
The Happy Reader Issue 16 is here and features Moses Sumney on the cover, photographed by Kennedi Carter in Asheville. Our Book of the Season is Sabahattin Ali’s breathtaking romance, MADONNA IN A FUR COAT.
The Happy Reader Issue 15 is here and features Sarah Jessica Parker. Beaches, books and juniper berries: this season’s cover star Sarah Jessica Parker is photographed by Roe Etheridge in Amaganesett, Long Island. Our Book of the Season, JAPANESE GHOST STORIES, is centre of gravity to a series of hallucinatory artworks; correspondents around the world compile an obsessive yet fragmentary portrait of the book’s odd author, Lafcadio Hearn.
The Happy Reader Issue 14 is available now on loremnotipsum.com and marks The Happy Reader’s fifth anniversary. As absorbing, beautiful and freewheeling as ever, it brings together an in-depth conversation with fashion’s Grace Wales Bonner and an exploration of Joris-Karl Huysmans’ fascinatingly odd novel Against Nature.
The Happy Reader Issue 13 is available now on loremnotipsum.com! In Issue 13 we feature Owen Wilson. In this rare interview he invites The Happy Reader to get to know him while perusing the classic and not-so-classic titles stacked up around his home.
The Happy Reader Issue 12 is available now on loremnotipsum.com! In Issue 12 we feature Laurie Anderson. She discusses the dizzying breadth of her reading habits, which underpin everything she does, her useful belief in multiple realities, and the old Kindle she carries from her late husband, LOU REED.
The Happy Reader Issue 11 is out now! In Issue 11, we feature Olly Alexander. The concept of the magazine is excitingly simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one Penguin Classics title from an array of surprising and invigorating angles, through fashion, art, lifestyle, history, film and more.
The Happy Reader Issue 10 is available now on loremnotipsum.com! In Issue 10, our summer classic is Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. The magazine is centred on the concept of ‘precious print’, as embodied by Penguin Classics and Fantastic Man.
The Happy Reader Issue 9 is out now! Wow, it's LILY COLE. A model who owns a bookshop. A movie actress who put it all on hold to clinch an art history degree. For every ounce — and there are many ounces — of celebrity possessed by the new Happy Reader cover star, there is at least one equal measure of bookishness.
The Happy Reader Issue 8 is out now! Issue 8 is featuring Kristin Scott Thomas. The actress KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS is hailed as a national treasure in not one but two countries, having reached the top of her profession in both Britain, her country of birth, and France, the country she has come to call home. She is also a voracious reader, et voila — the perfect impetus for two wide-ranging Happy Reader interviews in London and Paris.
The Happy Reader Issue 7 is available now on loremnotipsum.com! The inexhaustable curator HANS ULRICH OBRIST is one of the most important figures in contemporary art. HANS ULRICH OBRIST explains how today his work is still energised by the ideas, images and stories he finds in books.
The Happy Reader Issue 6 is out now! For the actor Ethan Hawke, literature has always been both an inspiration and a motif. In our special interview, also taking in music, fame and family, the Brooklyn-based father of four reveals the books that have made him who he is.
The Happy Reader Issue 5 is out now! The expansive reading habits of the musical genius GRIMES and the seductive secrets of Émile Zola's extraordinary consumerist novel AU BONHEUR DES DAMES.
The Happy Reader Issue 4 is out now! From Shakespeare to the Spice Girls, Issue 4, for autumn, welcomes a candid and capacious sit-down with the multi-talented actor, activist and author, ALAN CUMMING, and an apocalyptic whirlwind of words and pictures powered by early sci-fi novel, THE PURPLE CLOUD.
The Happy Reader Issue 3 is available now! The new issue features comedian-turned-dating-guru Aziz Ansari. He talks about his love for rock star biographies, the difficulty of finding truly funny novels and the challenges of love in the time of smartphones.
The Happy Reader Issue 2 is available now on loremnotipsum.com! The coolest girl in a band, Kim Gordon, graces our spring issue. She talks books, music, writing, art and bad TV habits.
The Happy Reader Issue 1 is out now! The concept of the magazine is excitingly simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one Penguin Classics title from an array of surprising and invigorating angles, through fashion, art, lifestyle, history, film and more.