ISSUE n.10
BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
There are infinite ways to fail, and just as many to deal with it. But what is failure, really? And how can we excel at it? This issue of maize is a celebration of losers—what we call “seconds,” or “eternal lasts”—because they can be more likeable (and more successful) than winners.
Bondy inside out
Uncensored perspectives about riots in Paris’ 93rd arrondissement 15 years later.
One step forward, two steps back
What if we told you that you can’t win in business without failing?
a conversation with Howard Tullman
Here to stay, here to play
What does a nursery school, an NGO, and anti-facism have to do with football?
How to succeed doing nothing
Michi Panero grew up in a literary family, but the Spaniard never published a word.
When writing is a pain
The urge to say something which has never been said before.
Where to find us.
Discover where the magazine is sold in your country
Staying alive
In Antarctica the possibility of failing is not just a bitter feeling, it is a matter of life and death.
Long Live the Huckleberry Party
A world without losers did exist and not that long ago.
a conversation with Scott Sandage
The vanquished who wrote history
Celebrating the beauty of catastrophe through poetic lyrics.
What’s at stake?
How much did so-called heretics understand the sense of defeat.
Get in touch with us
if you’d like your work to be featured in our magazine
Malabrocca, the champion who finished last
On a quest to earn the award for not winning.
by Gino Cervi
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