Sunday Reads

Sunday Reads: Holiday Season

Words
Nora Hagdahl
Photography
Changwook Gu
Sunday Reads: Holiday Season

Books and magazines aren’t just objects. As we close another whirlwind year, why not gift someone (or yourself) something that doesn’t just look good on a coffee table, but shifts the way you think and feel? These five prints, a mix of softcover mags and hardcover books, run the gamut from sonic fashion theory and city wanderlust to cult nostalgia, invisible subcultures, and the politics of desire – all ways to recalibrate your imagination for 2026.

Viscose Issue 8 – Sound

Issue 8 of Viscose Journal pulses at the nexus of fashion and the invisible world of sound. Edited by Jeppe Ugelvig with guest editors and essays that map sonic cultures in fashion from runway cues to ambient shop soundscapes – this issue treats sound as cultural logic, not mere backdrop. Listening becomes a way of critiquing taste, rhythm, and the temporal beat of style. Viscose always has fun print solutions embedding the theme. This time it’s an LP sleeve that reinforces its theory: fashion has its own acoustics if you care to tune in. Perfect for anyone who wants their New Year’s resolutions to include listening more, consuming less, and decoding the signals all around us.

NUDA – 100 Things to Do in Berlin, a Voo guide

This one-stop shop guide to Berlin is obviously extra close to our hearts. Whether it’s your first time in town, you’ve been here before, or you straight up live here and know all about Spätis and darkrooms, this book will have something for you. Woke up with no plans? Here’s a game: flip through the book, stop at a random page, and let whatever you land on decide today’s quest. 2026 is a year to move around. This book maps out a city worth visiting.

Hysteric Rooms — Daisy Davidson

The bedroom has quietly become one of the most honest zones of self-fashioning – the place where we declare our taste, fears, desires, and obsessions. Hysteric Rooms is a photographic ode to these spaces, documenting the bedrooms of friends and subculture participants. Originally connected to the @hysteric.fashion project on Instagram, it goes beyond street style to the interiors of people’s lives, all the /stuff/ that makes a room feel like a you, you, you. If resolution season calls for honesty, here’s a template: look around your room and ask what it’s saying about you.

Streetmate 1998–2001

Remember when reality TV was hand-crafted by a presenter on brick phones and rollerblades? Streetmate 1998–2001 is pure nostalgia-core, paying tribute to the cult UK dating show where Davina McCall was on the streets matching strangers in real time. The book turns this Y2K relic into something you read like you once watched it – cheap thrills, earnest hopes, awkward encounters. For anyone who wants 2026 to be less curated and more random interactions.

No Erotica No. 5

One of the most talked-about indie print projects in recent years, No Erotica riffs on the aesthetics of adult magazines from the ’80s and ’90s. With a cover story by Hari Nef photographed by Marilyn Minter and contributions from an international roster of writers, photographers, and provocateurs, this limited-edition publication is sexy and cool. It deconstructs desire with as much critical wit as visual pleasure. If changing your mind in 2026 includes rethinking desire, visibility, and the gaze, look here.