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Art
A$AP Rocky and Rihanna, RZA and Virgil Abloh: Places + Faces take us through their most iconic images
Universality
Books
Natasha Brown’s latest novel satirises the journalism industry
The Boyhood of Cain
Michael Amherst on his debut novel: a poetic story of small town boyhood
Treat yourself
Tenderbooks recommend their must-have photobooks
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The HERO Christmas reading list 2024
Epicly Later’d
Red eyes and Chloë Sevigny: Patrick O’Dell on capturing New York’s 00s downtown scene
Sunset Boulevard and beyond
Eve Babitz and Joan Didion: inside the relationship between LA’s iconic writers
Multiple Margins
The authors and curators of Aesop’s Queer Library share their top picks for Pride
The HERO 2024 Summer reading list – ft. Pedro Almodóvar, Sally Rooney and Julia Armfield
Top 5
Cult auteur Albert Serra selects five influential films
The Premonitions Bureau
British author Sam Knight is intellectualising the absurd
Top Stories
What to see at Printed Matter’s NYC Art Books Fair this weekend
Cultural Partnership
Valentino is the new sponsor of the International Booker Prize
HERO Reading List
Roadtrips, outsiders and heatwaves: books everyone will be talking about in 2024
Topographia Hibernica
Blindboy Boatclub on his new short story collection that skews Ireland’s colonisation
Daddy Boy
“I’m gonna be as disabled as fuck” — Emerson Whitney on his kinky storm-chasing memoir
Fit to burst
A.K. Blakemore on her novel The Glutton, the story of a man who ate and ate and ate
Composers and cannibals: HERO’s Autumn reading list
Penance
“I became interested in the act of making shit up” – Eliza Clark’s new novel is a Tumblr true-crime thriller
Interview with the author
Brandon Taylor on his soulful novel ‘The Late Americans’ – a story of friendship, intimacy and desire in modern America