ROOT QUARTERLY: ART AND IDEAS FROM PHILADELPHIA
THE “CONSERVATION” ISSUE WILL SHIP NOVEMBER 1.
“A joy to leaf through—and read. It is heavily illustrated, with a mix of photographs, drawings, and comic panels, and it makes creative use of typography. The content includes an eclectic mix of essays, fiction, interviews, reviews, and recipes, making for a strong new title.”
“CONSERVATION” Issue
ESSAYS & Art
Maury Giles, CEO, Braver Angels // On the importance of continued engagement with our ‘enemies’
Devin Scanlon, executive director, The Pluralist Lab // On recommitting to E pluribus unam
Julia Wald, artist and journalist // Understanding the media ecosystem that produced both Charlie Kirk and his assassin
Naomi Shira Weiss, student journalist // The convergence of left and right thinking
Sue Muncaster, contributor // During a bicycle trek through the Tetons, a group of women finds they might not be welcome by the locals
Interview by Lauren Leonard with Ballet X Founder Christine Cox
Art by Kathleen Studebaker, Brin Levinson and others
“An ambitious, meticulously designed publication about arts, culture, politics, food, and Philadelphia. It offers journalism, fiction, poetry, photographs, graphics, and personal essays by a diverse and youthful crew of creatives... Clearly, RQ also is a place for writers to stretch... and for readers to follow.”
BOOKS
More Excerpts, Reviews and Exhibitions To Be Announced Soon
“A high-production arts and culture affair with fiction, poetry and essays... A New Yorker for Philly? Root Quarterly pulls inspiration from higher-brow general interest magazines like Harper’s, the Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine and the London-based Riposte.”