Matador’s Back

Matador came back. It was a men’s magazine from Germany, ran in the mid-2000s. The idea’s simple: find people who’ve actually lived something and let them write. No self-improvement narratives, no enlightenment guides, no essays about reinvention.

First issue has a war photographer and nuns growing marijuana. That mix works because the magazine isn’t in the self-help business.

Nadine Kroll writes here and now writes for them too. First piece was about blowjobs—straightforward, no bullshit, just how it works. That’s the magazine’s whole energy: serious journalism next to beautiful nude women next to tech reviews next to sex advice. Print-magazine thinking: nothing needs to justify itself to anything else. It’s just there because it’s interesting.

Bimonthly, five eighty euros at newsstands. I’ll grab it if I see it.