Mika Ninagawa’s Sugar and Spice came out in 2000 and was pretty popular: my copy is the 7th printing, from 2004, if that’s any indication. Strangely, though, the book doesn’t appear on Ninagawa’s website and despite my best efforts, I’ve been unable to find any reviews or any real discussion of it online anywhere, and only found a brief mention of it in a biography of Ninagawa at Nippon.com. Maybe this (admittedly bad) review will provide some exposure.

“Choosing & Losing” is a subscription-based quarterly zine from John Whitmore, featuring his words and images around some sort of theme. For Issue #2, Q2, 2021, Whitmore takes us back to his 2015 walk along the Inca Trail.

Kent Hall (@windsorknot on Instagram and Twitter, and stop what you’re doing and go follow him NOW) is doing incredible, inspirational, wonderful things with Instax and Polaroid, grease pencil, marker, chalk, cardboard, stamps, paint, and various other media. I’m a fan and (secretly) jealous, want to find some way to do some things like that, but in my own way and without copying him.

Dave Rothschild dedicated Healing to “all the clinicians and doctors out there who have compassion and honest intention to help their patients heal.” It’s a strange book to be dedicated to doctors, sorta, what with the pictures of forests and suburban-looking parks, mostly in the fall and winter, and it’s really a zine mostly concerned with healing, with dealing with illness, the benefits of wounds, and it’s really pretty good.

Romy van der Burgh’s Through the Timeless Windows of Havana is/was the first second of Let’s Explore magazine‘s occasional journal series.* The zine combines van der Burgh’s journalistic account of her late 20-teens visit with photographs she made there, and works something like one of those long photo essays from Life magazine or something, without all the ads and other articles and whatnot (or like a single, somewhat longer one-off from Let’s Explore).