Dispatches is a magazine whose editorial content includes stories, interviews, photographs, and more from an array of original voices — writers, poets, thinkers, scientists, artists, photographers — providing a comprehensive look at a central organising theme per issue. California is important to the editors, but their dispatchers are scattered far and wide. Whether reporting from Perth or Paris, Oakland or New Orleans, the contributors report or reflect based on the pressure of events or the imprint of history.
The magazine's pages provide space for what its editors describe as the hunger to be everywhere at once — an appetite that print, paradoxically, is better suited to satisfy than any digital platform. A printed magazine can hold Perth and Paris in the same binding, can juxtapose a poem from Oakland with a photograph from New Orleans, and can make connections between distant places that a newsfeed would never think to suggest.
Dispatches is a magazine for readers who believe that the most important stories are not the ones that trend but the ones that resonate — sent from wherever they need to be sent, received by whoever is willing to listen.