BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE is a print-only literary arts magazine featuring “creative reporting on contemporary literature.” Our contributors aim to cross lines of normie literary journalism, injecting themselves HST-style into the narrative of their subjects in essays, interviews, and reviews, steering clear of puff-piece pandering.

Beyond our features, each issue’s massive book review section offer short, sharp, often shocking assessments of new releases, classics, and overlooked gems, where you’ll read a prominent author’s book reviewed, then that same author reviewing someone else’s book, alongside other writers being published for the first time through their own reviews, creating a level playing field in a medium often known for its ruthless gatekeeping. 

Supported by a dedicated international readership, BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE is also propelled by our trusted advertisers,  providing stylish, provocative, often satirical ads to our pages to further blur the lines between art and commerce. 

BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE’s publisher and editor-in-chief is journalist, author, and musician Gabriel Hart from California’s high-desert. 

BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE is a print continuum of the arts/culture website The Last Estate which ran from 2022-2023 under the guise of various cyberwriters living in a dilapidated mansion in the post-apocalyptic south, in which William Duryea and Rudy Johnson were the conceptual directors sharing “creative reporting” space with Gabriel Hart, Derek Maine, Miss Unity, Jake Blackwood, Autocastrix, Jesse Hilson, Karter Mykroft, Forrest Muelrath, Sabrina Small, and uh… (checks notes)… wow, Stuart Buck, along with a long list of visiting contributors. You can access the old LAST ESTATE website through our “archives” page, though we no longer publish online––it only serves as a time capsule