Elise By Olsen
What does the world’s youngest editor-in-chief do when they turn 21? Tom Faber interviews Elise By Olsen—the publishing maven who’s forcing the fashion industry to actually listen to the young people it fetishizes.
THE AFTERGLOW
High-voltage encounters with Seoul’s restless dreamers.
High-voltage encounters with Seoul’s restless dreamers.
Grace Mahary
Kyla Marshell interviews the sommelier with a close to perfect palate—and a vision to change the industry.
THE NEXT BEST THING
From Tamagotchis to cassette tapes: A celebration of the tech that shaped a generation.
Eva Victor
Nathan Ma meets Eva Victor: the character comedian changing her industry without leaving her apartment.
Archive: Jean Stein
Annick Weber chronicles the life of one of New York’s great storytellers.
Hôtel Martel
A visit to the Parisian cul-de-sac where the legacy of Robert Mallet-Stevens lives on.
Pierre Yovanovitch
Pierre Yovanovitch’s ultimate design showroom is also his home of more than a decade. Annick Weber meets the man with the keys to the castle. Photography by Romain Laprade.
Current Issue
A new playbook for the young—and the young at heart.
Selected Stories
Nic Stone
How can a young adult fiction author tackle racism, inequality and incarceration—but not rob teen readers of their optimism?
Note to Self
What advice would you give your younger self? An artist, a writer, a conductor, a curator, a rabbi and a robot pen missives to the past.
Kinfolk Dosan
A New Community Space in Seoul.
A New Community Space in Seoul.
The Kinfolk Long Listen
The Kinfolk Long Listen brings you audio recordings of longform essays first published in Kinfolk magazine.
A History of Bad Ideas
Bad Idea: Disposable Clothes
A recollection of the terrible trend for paper dresses.
Bad Idea: Dance Marathons
The Depression-era craze with deadly consequences.
Bad Idea: Gender Reveals
It’s time to burst the (pink or blue) bubble of this trend.
Think Back
A reexamination of nostalgia.
A reexamination of nostalgia.
The Kinfolk Print Collection
A new collection of art prints, produced in collaboration with ALIUM. Photography by Sofie Staunsager. Styling by Charlotte Skytte Daugbjerg.
Kill Time
The Hourglass
When we trace back the origins of the hourglass, we can’t find conclusive evidence of its existence before the 14th century.
Like Clockwork
In this new column about time, we learn how slipping off our watches makes us feel like deadline-damning renegades.
Tick Tock
“Now” actually happened a split second ago: A meditation on the passage of time.
In Anxious Anticipation
The effects of adrenaline are positively pulse-pounding, but the physical whoosh we feel in our bodies actually starts in our brains.
Manhattan Memoirists
Peer Review
Michelle Dean, author of Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion celebrates Renata Adler.
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Needle Work
In Seoul, the ancient art of tattoo is thrown into sharp relief.
Home Tour: Arcosanti
Sci-fi lair, Mediterranean village, utopian ecosystem: Tim Hornyak peers inside Arizona’s experimental desert community.
Miranda July
In Los Angeles, Miranda July talks to Robert Ito about pouring the fear, pleasure and unspoken weirdness of life into her genre-bending art.
NEW RITUALS
Ritual Design Lab suggests new rituals to mark the petty losses and small triumphs that pass without ceremony.
The Kinfolk Print Collection
A new collection of art prints, produced in collaboration with ALIUM.