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I first encountered The Fence in a small store stuffed with magazines of every variety. The corner of the first issue peeked out from the bottom of a stack, its white paper glaring against the surrounding photographic covers.

I went home with probably the only magazine in the entire store devoid of a single photograph.

Legendary London-based fashion and culture magazine The Face winkingly describes The Fence as “London’s second-best magazine: an independent quarterly that publishes witty essays, sketches, investigations and insider accounts of powerful institutions.” Established in 2019,  The Fence is part of a tradition of satirical current affairs magazines like Spy and Private Eye, but its four sections—“Facts,” “Features,” “Fiction,” and “Etc.”— span topics as varied as pop culture, current events, humor and literature.

The ambitious editorial mission is supported by a visual identity