Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff - freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

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A No 1. World of Warcraft as told by an avatar and his guy; document forgery, true crime, Mormons, Lucifer; analysis of the Canon Powershot SD800; the philosophy of "singularity"; radiation poisoning in Goiania, Brazil; the French. Letterpressed cover and inserts. George Kuchar centerfold. With Flint Jamison, James Voges, Geoff Haskey, Sandra & Jerald Tanner, Kevin Kelly, L. David Roper & Marco Antonio Sperb Leite. Edition of 1000. 12" x 6", 121 pages. $20. Add to cart

B No 2. Politics of Czech freetekno and rave; a diary of life with death as it relates to particle physics; Dublin drinks; kidney stones; history of Ceylon tea; "Ultramoderne." Lucky Dragons/Gæoudjiparl 5" vinyl. With Lukas Wimmer, Shari Roman, Chris Dahlen, Maxwell Fernando, Leagues O'Toole, John Cowhie, Robert Smithson. Edition of 1000. 11" x 5.5", 121 pages. $20. Add to cart

C No 3. Made up of all glossy ads. The notorious issue wherein Ve sent invoices ($1928.57) to companies for said ads that hadn't been purchased. CZ diamond embedded in cover and pages, glitter sprayed cover. Supposedly scented but i didn't smell anything, so... Shrinkwrapped. Edition of 1000. 9" x 5.5". $20. Add to cart

D No 4. A conversation between farriers; screenplay/stills from ATL; sand dune mysteries; what's up with Antwerp; gamma rays. Embossed shiny pearl cover, titanium square embedded in back. With Matt Taimuty, Tina Gordon Chism & Antwone Fisher, Ely Sassoon, Nathalie M. Vriend, Carl B. Collins, Daniel Baumann. Edition of 1000. 9" x 5.5", 133 pages. $20. Add to cart

E No 5. This one is visuals-heavy. An accounting of possibly the world's only Oakley sunglasses collection (outside of Oakley), sea cucumbers, Sadhana yoga practice, 4-day cassoulet, UFOs and the US Navy, HIV prevention as physics. With Ilsa Nodham, Eric Snow, Chester C. Grusinski, Frank Y. Wang, Dr. Lynn Fendler, Adrian Piper. Letter pressed cover, 2009 calendar insert, comes sealed with industrial foam and bagged. Edition of 1000. 9" x 5.5", 172 pages. $20. Add to cart

F No 6. The team went for texture on this issue. The cover is ribbed for your pleasure and each was ceremoniously tethered and whipped by the Veneer crew. Legendary artist Sturtevant writes about her work, legend in-the-making Julia Roberts gets written about in the tradition of 80s teen idol paperbacks (but lovingly), truths and untruths of the leather scene, the biological breakdown of Down Syndrome, the weather in China, sheep genetics, and god so much more crazy shit. Edition of 1000. 9" x 5.5", 180 pages. $25. Add to cart

G No 7. About touch, and being bound. Reiki, laundry laborers, Esperanto, instructions for putting things together, an entire section in Braille that's shockingly meditative (for non-Braille readers), Manganese significance for humanity across the ages, graphs and symbols and sets - they touch, too. There's magnet in this one. Edition of 1000. 9" x 5.5", 190 pages. $20. Add to cart

H No 8. This issue is made available free of charge (pretty much) by Veneer due to problems with the cover. My feeling is this issue has something to do with tough, tactile and abstract materials, being unyielding, stretching, hardness. Margaret Thatcher, mathematics of St. Louis's Gateway Arch, chemical agents in iron, Eurasia, nomenclature, Andre Kertesz polaroids. Edition of 1000. 9" x 5.5", 184 pages. $.01. Add to cart

I No 9. The Gardens of Pixar, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, Chirs Abani, Nnorom Azuonye, Michael Echeruo, Okey Ndibe, Michael Mbabuike, Chike Obi, Residents of Yellowstone County Riverbed vs. Exxonmobil Oil, A. Clifford Edwards, A. Christopher Edwards, John W. Edwards, Chevrolet Cobalt 2009 SS, Wave-adaptice modular vessels, Uluburun shipwreck stowaway house mouse, Vases, Vaccines and antibiotics in colds. Edition of 1000. 9" x 5.5", 160 pages. $20. Add to cart