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1 month ago | anothermag.com | Dominique Sisley |TextDominique Sisley

Author and professional dominatrix Brittany Newell discusses her new novel Soft Core – a ghostly, feverish love story that unfolds in the city’s sex dungeons and strip clubs Brittany Newell’s new novel, Soft Core, is not a mystery or a thriller. The San Francisco author is fairly adamant about that. At its heart, it could be read as a love story, but there is also something more spectral – and intangible – lurking in its pages.

2 months ago | anothermag.com | Dominique Sisley |TextDominique Sisley

Perfumier Céline Barel opens up about the process behind Aesop’s new perfume Aurner – a “defiant” floral inspired by Lilac Wine and the ancient female poet Li Qingzhao Aesop is arguably best known for its scents. From its heady, herbaceous body scrubs to its enlivening hand balms, the Melbourne-born brand has established itself as a pioneer of modern fragrance-making, creating an abundance of wonders from nature’s seeds, soils, plants and bark.

Oct 28, 2024 | anothermag.com | Laura Marling |Dominique Sisley |Nick Cave |TextDominique Sisley

The songwriter has returned with new album Patterns In Repeat, a moving meditation on domesticity and familial love, which is already being widely praised as the best work of her careerLead Image I first saw Laura Marling 11 years ago, performing in the basement of a derelict hospital somewhere in east London. It was a liminal space; a Gothic manor where vines crawled through cracked glass, and the veil between worlds could be disturbed by a drafty window.

Sep 20, 2024 | anothermag.com | Dominique Sisley |TextDominique Sisley

We speak to the acclaimed American author about charisma, political disenchantment, and her Booker Prize-shortlisted new novel Creation LakeLead Image For the last 14 years, Rachel Kushner has spent her summers in France’s Vézère Valley. The region, located deep in the country’s southwestern centre, is a UNESCO World Heritage site: an ancient landscape of limestone cliffs and undulating forests. But its secrets lie in the labyrinthine complex of caverns beneath its surface.

Jul 11, 2024 | anothermag.com | Dominique Sisley |TextDominique Sisley

Lead Image One of Jamie Hawkesworth’s most well-known photographs was taken on Unst, Britain’s northernmost point. The landscape – which happens to be the inspiration behind Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island – is known for being jagged and treacherous, pummeled by centuries of thrashing waves and sharp winds. “I took a train, and then a ferry, and then a bus, and then another bus, and then another ferry, to get there,” Hawkesworth remembers.