The Drawbridge is a quarterly newspaper started in London in 2006. It is a full-colour independent paper that has published articles by Isabel Allende, J. G. Ballard, John Berger, Terry Eagleton, Umberto Eco, John N. Gray, Eric Hobsbawm, Siri Hustvedt, Etgar Keret, Simon McBurney, Alberto Manguel, DBC Pierre, Tracy Quan, Jonathan Raban, José Saramago, Roberto Saviano, Dubravka Ugrešić, Mario Vargas Llosa, Irvine Welsh, Edmund White and Tobias Wolff alongside photography and drawings by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Brian Cronin, Paul Davis, Jeff Fisher, Paul Fryer, Paul Graham, Jaki Jo, David Moore, Martin Parr, Robert Polidori, David Shrigley, Joel Sternfeld, Emer O'Brien, and Peter Till.
Each issue presents contributions around a selected theme. The Autumn 2010 issue"Ghosts" The Drawbridge, Issue 20. includes writing by Héctor Abad Faciolince, Bidisha, Max Frisch, Vasily Grossman, Yōko Ogawa, José Saramago, Antonio Tabucchi, Colm Tóibín and Evie Wyld, and art and photography by Maurizio Anzeri, Jessica Backhaus, Elizabeth Heyert, Eadweard Muybridge, Jason Orton, David Shrigley and Joel Sternfeld.
The Drawbridge has been reviewed by The Guardian,Travis Elborough, "Crest the lows, dig the dirt", The Guardian, 10 March 2007. BBC Radio 3′s Night Waves,Nigel Lawson, "Intelligent magazines", Night Waves, BBC Radio 3, 8 April 2008. Design Week,"Hot fifty – The Drawbridge", Design Week, 14 February 2008. magculture.com"The Drawbridge #8", magCulture.com, 21 February 2008. and The Independent.Rob Sharp, "Notes from the underground: a fresh breed of literary magazines", The Independent, 5 July 2010.
References
External links The Drawbridge Stephen Coates (art director) Studio Lift