The Happy Reader explores and discusses literature in an intelligent, yet accessible way. Each issue is split into two halves- The first half is an in-depth interview with a book fanatic and the second half gets under the skin of one classic work of literature.
The Book of the Season, Japanese Ghost Stories, is centre of gravity to a series of hallucinatory artworks; correspondents around the world compile an obsessive yet fragmentary portrait of the book’s odd author, Lafcadio Hearn. Contributors include Lieko Shiga, John Self, Travis Elborough, Bess Lovejoy and Moeko Fujii.