The New Idler: Smash the System
12 May 2009
We’re pleased to announce that the new Idler is now at the printers and will be released on 17 June. Apologies to those who were expecting the book on the previously advertised launch date of May 1.
Idler 42: Smash the System is a 350 page hardback book bound in cloth and printed on high quality stock. The editor is Tom Hodgkinson and the typesetter is Christian Brett. Our aim has been to collect together the UK’s best radical voices and to explore real alternatives to the neoliberal programme, which has so clearly failed us. Contributors include Alain De Botton, Jay Griffiths, Clare Pollard, Paul Kingsnorth, Andrew Simms, Oliver James and Penny Rimbaud. There are illustrations from Gee Vaucher, Paul Ryding, Alice Smith and Bronwen Jones.
Individuals can order the book by clicking on the right. All orders from the Idler Shop will be accompanied by a letterpress bookmark.
Alternatively, ask your local bookshop to order it.
Bookshops or other shops who would like to stock it should contact our distributor, Central Books, on 0845 458 9911.
"I do nothing and then I do something. But it's taken years of investigating idleness in all its forms to be able to achieve this. My discipline is borne out of concerted study of idleness."