The Spring/Summer issue of Port – featuring Maude Apatow, Naomi Ackie, Robert Aramayo, Headie One, James Norton and Leo Woodall, photographers Heather Hazzan, Jesse Crankson, Valentin Hannequin, Angalis Field, Albane Durand-Viel, Hill & Aubrey, Lola Banet, Marius W Hansen, Cruz Zimmer, Christian Cassiel, writers Greg McKenzie, Hasti, Gus Casely-Hayford, Stuart Brumfitt, Ella Joyce, Jordan Page, Jenna Mahale, Habiba Katsha, Nils Leonard, Graydon Carter, Don Morrison, plus original writing from Bud Smith, and exclusive interview with Rebecca Solnit, and a re-look at Port Issue 1 with the late Robert Hughes. 

Port Issue 38, the first of two celebrating the publication’s 15th Anniversary, is a call to reflect – to the importance of slowing pace and taking note of the journey so far. In a contemporary age where chaos and uncertainty roam without restraint, Port actions a search for meaning, stability, and connection amid constant change. Our cover stories and discussion seek to embody this intimately. Maude Apatow, on the cusp of her directorial debut with Poetic License, reflects on the distance travelled since Euphoria; James Norton, poised between roles in House of the Dragon and The Beatles, sits with Bill Nighy to consider the management of appetite, on screen and off; Headie One, a figure of unusual clarity in British rap, turns to the past as a means of measuring the present; Rachel Weisz joins Leo Woodall to discuss his instinct for inhabiting longing ahead of the release of Tuner; and the recent BAFTA winner Robert Aramayo calls on Jack O’Connell to weigh triumph against its cost. Lastly, Naomi Ackie shares candid reflections on anxiety and the work of repair as she awaits the release of I Love Boosters.

In Portfolio, shot by Marius W Hansen, we have photographed the things creatives need to work. Eight practitioners, among them Fiona Banner, Shelley Fox, and Stephen Jones, demonstrate that reduction, properly understood, is a form of abundance.

Elsewhere, Gus Casely-Hayford and Thomas J Price take stock of artistic legacy in a restless age. The fashion designer Craig Green offers a rare view into his practice. The wonderful Nigerian writer Akwaeke Emezi is in conversation with Hasti. The chef Jeremy Lee cooks, generously and a little messily, for Olivia Laing and Charlie Porter. And the restaurateur Jeremy King meets Nils Leonard to examine taste, craft and building your own stories. Deyan Sudjic, our editor of the Port Review of Design, revisits a decade and a half of design, tracing a line between utility and desire, whilst also exploring Raw-Edges for Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades.

Our Commentary section returns with Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Alexander Chee on apocalyptic thinking, alongside new fiction from rising star Bud Smith and the reappearance of a familiar Port voice, the late, great Robert Hughes.

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