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Analog Sea Review #4
The Analog Sea Review: Number Four
Around these poles this award-winning and universally praised journal aims to represent a community of writers and artists 'wishing to maintain contemplative life in the digital age.' Yes, this is a true print enterprise located firmly in offline culture we had to write a letter to the publisher to secure our first copies. And we're glad we did, because this pocket collection of ingeniously interlinked essays, interviews, stories, and images is indeed a tonic for anyone seeking shelter from the multi-channel bombast that feels institutional to 21st century daily life.
So, after a two year wait, we're over the moon to have a new release. Brimming with superlative content sensitively sourced from a host of historical and contemporary writers, artists, musicians, critics and thinkers drawn from a range of disciplines, the fourth volume of The Analog Sea Review features Johannes Brahms, Carl Honoré, Paul Simon, LeRoi Jones, Joan Didion, Eimear McBride, Hannah Arendt, Pablo Picasso, Leonard Cohen, Rebecca Solent, Jon Savage, André Gregory, Toni Morrison, Donna Tartt, Shunryu Suzuki, Cornel West, Virginia Woolf, among many others.
It's not just a soothing read but an important one. As the publisher (Jonathan Simons) says, 'Once enough of us come to realise precisely what we are losing, we may just find ourselves on the cusp of a new renaissance.'
So, after a two year wait, we're over the moon to have a new release. Brimming with superlative content sensitively sourced from a host of historical and contemporary writers, artists, musicians, critics and thinkers drawn from a range of disciplines, the fourth volume of The Analog Sea Review features Johannes Brahms, Carl Honoré, Paul Simon, LeRoi Jones, Joan Didion, Eimear McBride, Hannah Arendt, Pablo Picasso, Leonard Cohen, Rebecca Solent, Jon Savage, André Gregory, Toni Morrison, Donna Tartt, Shunryu Suzuki, Cornel West, Virginia Woolf, among many others.
It's not just a soothing read but an important one. As the publisher (Jonathan Simons) says, 'Once enough of us come to realise precisely what we are losing, we may just find ourselves on the cusp of a new renaissance.'
218 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2022
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January 15, 2024
Exceptional collection, a weaving of voices through time. Very much needed. Worth it, everyone.
November 11, 2024
This book is among the best things that happened to me this year.
May 12, 2024
Tankeväckande essä- och poesisamling, flera stycken har blivit nya favoriter! Oxå intressant bokkoncept:)
April 21, 2023
The first of these volumes I have read, and I am inspired to want to read all of the others. I hosted an event at bookhaus with Jonathan Simmons, the publisher, and we had a fascinating discussion about what Analog Sea is trying to achieve. These books are beautifully designed and produced and full of excellent excerpts from a great range of writing from poetry and philosophy to reportage and travel writing and everything in between. I highly recommend them.
November 16, 2024
I used to seek fiction for escapism but this collection does this with absolute perfection. I needed to know this publication and editorial perspective existed in a world that feels hostile, digital and manufactured.
The analog sea review is a hard to find gem as the distribution is by request only to local booksellers and they only answer by mail. This doesn’t mean they are deeply removed from the current world and what we as a collective, physiological society need: the editor is piercing, lamenting and compelling in his opening notes in a way that sticks with you when you read the curated pieces following. I can’t quite pin what each have in common and how they contribute to the overarching transcendental movement other than the a sense of timelessness, wisdom and provocative curiosity exuded by the contemporaries and classics.
I can’t wait to collect the rest so they can stand next to each other- each more critical and eye-opening than the one before.
The analog sea review is a hard to find gem as the distribution is by request only to local booksellers and they only answer by mail. This doesn’t mean they are deeply removed from the current world and what we as a collective, physiological society need: the editor is piercing, lamenting and compelling in his opening notes in a way that sticks with you when you read the curated pieces following. I can’t quite pin what each have in common and how they contribute to the overarching transcendental movement other than the a sense of timelessness, wisdom and provocative curiosity exuded by the contemporaries and classics.
I can’t wait to collect the rest so they can stand next to each other- each more critical and eye-opening than the one before.
July 29, 2025
A stunning and paradigm-shifting collection of essays, as they ever are. This volume ranges from essays on Beatniks to essays upon the merits of walking in cities. I am a big fan of the “Kantian Walk” myself, yet have never in literature (besides one or two places) encountered such a thorough treatment of it.
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March 16, 2023Something to dip in and out of, linger over. Food for thought re: the way the technical interconnectedness of things separates and divides rather than connects. Appropriate that I bought it before going on a hike.
March 15, 2023
if i could give this 10 stars i would, one of the best things i’ve read in a while
May 18, 2023
phenomenal
May 9, 2026
No. 5, please! Soon?
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