Literary Magazines/Journals

[schlongesttime]

What are some good magazines/journals you pick up?

I've been thinking about buying a magazine at the bookstore, always eyeing The Paris Review. What I'm wondering about is, are there any other worthwhile magazines? Which ones are good, which ones should I avoid?

Which magazines fit your needs the best: containing politics, journalism, purely fiction and poetry, general interest?

So I guess, bring up any magazine, whether it be completely related to literature, that comes to mind. New Yorker, Harpers, that Zyzzyzzya thing, TLS, Believer, McSweeneys, Bookforum, n+1, Zoetrope...

I'm a total noob to literature. I went to bookstores a lot this past month, and kept wondering if I should pick up that Paris Review issue with Didion. I went a few days ago and its gone, out of stock.

[Logos]

I've got subscriptions to Harper's (http://www.harpers.org/Feature.html) , Vanity Fair (http://www.vanityfair.com/) , The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/) and The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/) because they have a lot of literary content, reviews of current writings and authors by a number of regular contributors I follow, though of mostly North American content. So usually I will read a review and end up buying the book or reading more about a specific author if I know more about their background.

I don't know of many European publications that are in english though often their websites (like any of the BBC/UK ones or the Herald Tribune) are good online sources of current or archived searchable material.

Arts and Letters Daily (http://www.aldaily.com/) is useful for an overview of current articles on hundreds of different sites/publications.

I will usually buy a magazine because I want to read a specific article in it, you should have grabbed the Paris Review when you had the chance :)

[RobinHood3000]

Writer's Digest (http://www.writersdigest.com) is the one for me.

[Lycosparks]

I am interested to see the response to this thread as well; I have been searching for a good poetry journal. What shows you the best new poets? Thanks in advance!

[Virgil]

Although I've let my subscription lapse, I found The Hudson Review to be a very good literary journal of contemporary literature without a political agenda, like some of the others that have been mentioned. Here's a web site: http://www.hudsonreview.com/.


Writer's Digest is the one for me.
That is a good writer's magazine. Another good one is The Writer http://www.writermag.com/wrt/, which I think is older than Writer's Digest.

Here's a listing of some poetry journals, http://poetry.about.com/od/periodicals/, but I have no experience as to their quality.

[aeroport]

I do not have much experience to offer, beyond The New Yorker, Poets and Writers and Writer's Digest, but you can find a really big directory (with descriptions) of literary ezines and journals at http://www.zeroland.co.nz/literature_journals.html

[lavendar1]

Try this link: http://www.newpages.com/NPGuides/litmags.htm
It's an "A to Z" listing loaded with literary magazines.

I also read Harper's and The Sun.

[Jean-Baptiste]

Poetry Magazine has been around for almost a century, and it's great. Many very famous poets actually got their start from that publication. It doesn't offer much in the way of reviews or criticism, but it definitely does its job in introducing major current poets. They publish on a monthly theme: Translated poetry, humorous poetry, etc. At the risk of sounding like a commercial (I don't work for Poetry Magazine) it is, in my opinion, one of the greatest legacies left us by the Modernist movement.