Favorite Magazines

[paul secor]

New Yorker - mainly out of habit

Stereophile - Nothing much there that interests me these days, but it's a cheap subscription.

[Dave Garrett]

New Yorker (seems to be the most popular choice here)

AutoWeek (been a subscriber since the mid-80s)

Road & Track (ditto)

The Rodder's Journal

Atomic Ranch (mid-century modern residential architecture)

Video Watchdog

Shock Cinema

Cinema Retro

Film Comment (not nearly as good as in days of yore, but still subscribe out of habit)

Invention & Technology

Giant Robot

Juxtapoz

Wax Poetics (since #3 - still hunting for 1 & 2 at something approaching a reasonable price)

Make (check out makezine.com)

[danasgoodstuff]

New York Review of Books (the most literate thing out there, IMHO)

Turning Wheels (Studebaker Drivers Club rag, surprisingly good if somewhat narrow)

Classic [moter]Bike (again somewhat specialized, but v. good)

Scottish Life (neoJacobist, which makes it nearly as reactionary as some of our posters here)

[Eric]

National Geographic (grew up with it)

Sports Illustrated out of habit (33 years...eek)

Yep, those too. And Kansas Wildlife and Parks, kind of a local version of National Geographic

[BERIGAN]

This one's got "bathroom-reading" written all over it ; I mean , where better to bone up on porcelain insulators than in the 'porcelain library'

Gee, never seen a purple one!!! We just have some clear ones, and perhaps a green one, I think.....

Heh,heh, you said bone up! Well, it does look like a bit phallic, don't it???

Edited August 31, 2008 by BERIGAN

[BERIGAN]

Juggs quarterly.

Junk the Trunk weekly.

[medjuck]

Am I the only one here who reads "Wired" (no not "The Wire" but "Wired")?

[Dave Garrett]

Am I the only one here who reads "Wired" (no not "The Wire" but "Wired")?

No, I forgot to mention that one. I've been reading it since the first issue (and am pretty sure I still have all of them as well).

[Royal Oak]

The Wisden Cricketer

[jostber]

National Geographic

Scientific American Mind

Mojo (sometimes)

Nord (Norwegian food magazine)

Illustrated Science (Norwegian)

Ren Mat (Ecological food magazine)

[BeBop]

Two years on, I thought I'd resurrect this thread. I still subscribe to an outrageous number of magazines and enjoy them all. Since this thread was started, a few have died (Portfolio, Seed) a couple have gone to h*ll (Atlantic) and there are some new ones out.

So, what're you reading?

[carnivore]

I gave up on the Atlantic and the New Republic some time ago.

Harpers is my most eagerly awaited

also get New Yorker

New York Review of Books

Cooks Illustrated

IAJRC Mag.

[BeBop]

The IAJRC really has improved quality and reliability. If only they could get more reviewers.

[Bright Moments]

smithsonian

linn's

newsweek

delete newsweek (really hate the new format)

add "The Week" - really enjoy this one!

Edited September 10, 2010 by Bright Moments

[NaturalSoul]

Sports Illustrated

The Sporting News

Slam

Dime

Baseball America

[BeBop]

smithsonian

linn's

newsweek

delete newsweek (really hate the new format)

add "The Week" - really enjoy this one!

Agree on The Week and Newsweak. Another that's really gone to h*ll is US News and World Report. That subscription won't be renewed. On the other hand, Business Week seems at least as good under Bloomberg. It ain't the Economist, but what is?

[ghost of miles]

Subscribe to:

The New York Review of Books (my favorite non-music periodical)

The New Yorker

Downbeat

JazzTimes

Traces (Indiana history magazine)

Men's Health

Poets and Writers

Buy regularly off the newstand:

WaxPoetics

Buy occasionally off the newstand:

The Believer

Mojo

Oxford American (esp. the music issue)

I had a subscription to Cadence for a few years but let it lapse (can't even remember why--no specific reason that I can recall) and haven't ever gotten around to renewing it. Same with The Nation (although in that case, it was just from a feeling of having too much already to read).

Edited September 10, 2010 by ghost of miles

[BeBop]

Subscribe to:

The New York Review of Books (my favorite non-music periodical)

The New Yorker

Downbeat

JazzTimes

Traces (Indiana history magazine)

Men's Health

Poets and Writers

Buy regularly off the newstand:

WaxPoetics

Buy occasionally off the newstand:

The Believer

Mojo

Oxford American (esp. the music issue)

I had a subscription to Cadence for a few years but let it lapse (can't even remember why--no specific reason that I can recall) and haven't ever gotten around to renewing it. Same with The Nation (although in that case, it was just from a feeling of having too much already to read).

Cadence is one of the rare few I let lapse too. Seems like there was a price hike, but my enthusiasm level didn't rise proportionately.

And, again, unusually for me, I didn't miss it.

[JohnJ]

smithsonian

linn's

newsweek

delete newsweek (really hate the new format)

add "The Week" - really enjoy this one!

Agree on The Week and Newsweak. Another that's really gone to h*ll is US News and World Report. That subscription won't be renewed. On the other hand, Business Week seems at least as good under Bloomberg. It ain't the Economist, but what is?

The Economist is the only magazine I read on a regular basis (in print as opposed to online).

[Peter Johnson]

Too many:

New Yorker

The Baffler (Quarterly)

Wax Poetics

Vanity Fair :blush2:

Harpers

The Economist

New York

Time Out New York

Philadelphia

Esquire

Cooks Illustrated

The Art of Eating

Think it's time to let some of these lapse!

[GA Russell]

All this said, magazines are by far the heaviest part of my luggage.

BeBop, have you considered getting an eBook reader? There are a number of magazines available for it, including America's best selling short story magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

I subscribe to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and one good thing about it is that there is no reason to throw an issue away until you have read it all.

My nephew gave me a subscription to Culture Wars Magazine, which is certainly different. The premise is that Western culture was better when Christians ruled the day during the Middle Ages and the Rennaissance, and most issues are devoted to how the most influential non-Christians of the last two hundred years have been bad influences.

[BeBop]

Anyone - most likely a Canadian - read Walrus?

[thedwork]

Adbusters:

Journal Of The Mental Environment (Zine Home)

cultural commentary magazine w/ articles and very interesting artwork. certainly not for everyone.

sample cover image:

the "adbusters flag":

[PHILLYQ]

Cook's Illustrated

Louisiana Cookin'

[Van Basten II]

By the way the Ring Magazine goes digital, the first edition is available to everyone, not thrilled about the functionnality of the engine they are using but hey it's still a good deal

http://thering.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vring11/i2/p1