Dazed & Confused

A trailblazer for emerging talent and proudly independent, Dazed magazine aims to set the cultural agenda, both on and offline. Founded by Jefferson Hack and Rankin in 1991, the entire archive of back issues is available for digital subscribers to Dazed. The independent British fashion, culture and arts magazine has a strong global reputation for its groundbreaking and trendsetting editorial and its support of new generations of fashion, art, literature, photography and music talent. DazedDigital.com, their online magazine, is updated daily, hosting interactive projects, extra editorial content, exclusive music and fashion film.

Dazed & Confused

It always seems impossible until it's done

What if everything they told you about yourself is not true? • In their debut novel Vagabonds!, Eloghosa Osunde brings the Nigerian city of Lagos to life in a magic-realist chronicle of the people living on its margins. Here, they wax poetic on the porous boundaries between the real and imagined, and why writing is ‘what I was sent here to do’

Among the Stars is a life we imagined • With the discovery of a new, potentially life-sustaining planet in our cosmic back yard, four thinkers share their views on the ethics of interstellar world-building – to boldly go or not to go, and what we might do if we get there

The Source Code • Painting the internet's big-bang moment one blocky avatar at a time, Gao Hong's graphically obsessed art puts an ironic spin on the techno-utopianism of a disappeared age

Reviving the Spirit of giving • With a crowdsourced approach to empowering local communities across Africa, Jermaine Craig's fundraising platform Kwanda aims to spark a revolution in giving that begins at home

the Impossible Game of LIFE • Struggling to get the hang of this life thing? You're not alone. Here's your guide to making the (seemingly) impossible possible, from breaking the class ceiling to becoming a CEO and, er, borrowing dogs

The Full Report • Press freedoms are under fire in Gaza, where reporters risk their lives – and those of their families – to shine crucial light on the daily struggle to survive

To create tomorrow we have to start dreaming today • Noris Obijiaku's viral TikTok posts take viewers on a journey through London's radical 20th-century experiments in collective living. Here, he talks to Privatise the Mandem author Nabil Al-Kinani about reviving the spirit of futurism

I hope a Garden grows where we danced this afternoon

Untangling the Past to reclaim our future • Propelled into pop's A-list at the age of 19, Ayra Starr was forced to dig deep for The Year I Turned 21, a scorching second album that's equal parts sun-kissed and soul-searching

A Bag For Life

You exist only in what you do

To all the boys who emerged out of chaos • The first time Central Cee set foot in a studio, he knew he was exactly where he needed to be. But after years spent hustling for a future big enough to accommodate his dreams, the west London rap star is only now learning to call himself an artist

Find yourself in a paradise lost

In the land of gods and Monsters, I was an angel

I'm on that wave, trying to imagine what life would have been like then • By turns raucous and vulnerable, Bad Bunny's explosive take on Latin trap and reggaeton styles have made him a superstar of the global pop age – now, he's going back to his Boricua roots as he ponders his next step

THE (Not So) GREAT AMERICAN ELECTION • Election season is back in the US, more meme-hungry and nonsensical than ever before. With the future of American democracy in the balance, we join the dots on the young people taking to the polls this November, from Maga cultists to pro-lifer Swifties and kids gone...