Your favorite Magazine?

[tonywalt]

What is your favorite magazine. I will go with 'The Atlantic'. I also like the Economist.

What is yours?

[Darcy88]

Adbusters, originator of the Occupy Movement.

[Paulclem]

Writers news and National Geographic. I also like The New Scientist.

[Helga]

The Atlantic, but I rarely read magazines, I check out articles on the internet every now and then but not in general.

[byquist]

Runners World

[Sancho Panza]

I am inclined to go with the Fortean Times as there is no better place to get my monthly fix of all things paranormal, occult and generally strange.

[Emil Miller]

I tend to vary them although mostly they are French, with L'Express the most frequent or sometimes Le Point. I also like Der Spiegel which is a first class German magazine. I seldom buy British publications but I do occasionally buy US mags like Newsweek or Time. It mostly depends on what the main article is about.

[Sancho]

Guns-n-Ammo

Only joking. I like The New Yorker

Also, to the Lit-Netter just above Emil Miller, Hey cousin! Que Tal?

[OrphanPip]

I read Spin for the new album releases and reviews occasionally. Otherwise, I don't really read magazines very often, sometimes Nature or the non-professional science magazines like the New Scientist.

[papayahed]

What is your favorite magazine. I will go with 'The Atlantic'. I also like the Economist.



me too. Along with HOUR Detroit, Whole Living, and Style? I think it's called Style. The first three were free and I renew. It speaks to my girlie side.

[Nathan Kelevra]

I'm not going to lie.
I read Cosmo. (They have good articles!)
Free samples.

[tonywalt]

I'm not going to lie.
I read Cosmo. (They have good articles!)
Free samples.

...some good pictures as well.

[smerdyakov]

I don't buy it very often but NewStatesman is a quality publication.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Anything with partially clad or nude women.

[JuniperWoolf]

I don't read magazines. Why read magazines when the internet exists?

[Sancho]

I don't read magazines. Why read magazines when the internet exists?

Because you can roll them up, put them in your jeans pocket, and use them for all sorts of things that the internet is useless at, like swatting a fly, or as in a recent incident at my house with a copy of Barron’s: reminding my dog that lifting his leg inside the house is not cool. Also the flight attendants can’t make you turn them off when, “Folks we’ve been cleared for landing at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, so everybody please return to their seat, and fasten their seat belt, and turn off their...”

But I know what you’re saying. And I agree. I’ll bet that within 10 years, print magazines will be practically gone – like vinyl records.

I notice a lot of Lit-Netters listed The Atlantic as their favorite magazine. I like it too. But I love The New Yorker, and I’ve had a subscription to both magazines for quite some time (also Harpers). And I’ve got to say, while I prefer the print version of The New Yorker, The Atlantic’s app totally ROCKS! and makes The New Yorker’s app look like a small animal who wets himself.

[audioTNT]

Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Road and Track, and the occasional Speedhunters Blog

[stlukesguild]

Anything with partially clad or nude women.

You too? Of course in my case its all purely done as research... in preparation for my paintings.:biggrinjester:

[stlukesguild]

There are a couple of older art magazines that I used to seek out. One, entitled Verve was an absolutely stunning publication from the 1930s and 40s:

The magazine employed contemporary artists to illustrate stories and articles... and simply to illustrate the magazine itself. Many of these illustrations were what is known as "book lithos", "book engravings", and even book "lino-cuts". In other words, the magazine was not illustrated using traditional photo-litho process based on the photograph of the original art work, but rather the works included were "original" art works... artist's prints no different from those sold in galleries with the exception that they were unsigned and printed in an edition to match the run of the magazine.

The prints in these magazines (in mint condition) can be valued as highly as $1800 or even higher. I have a couple of such prints by Matisse, a Kandinsky, and a slew of prints by Joan Miro. I actually had the latter hanging on my classroom wall for sometime (with masking tape!!:ack2:) before I discovered what the actually were. I just thought they were usual photographic reproductions.

Beyond the contributions of contemporary artists, Verve Magazine included magnificently printed reproductions of medieval book arts... illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells and the Tres Riches Heurs du Duc du Bellay. Perhaps of the greatest interest to members here at LitNet, the magazine printed specially commissioned stories, essays, poems, etc... by many of the greatest living writers, including James Joyce, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Andre Breton,
Paul Claudel, Paul Eluard, etc...

Among the contemporary art magazines I still browse through Art News and Art in America... but I recognize that the artists they represent and the "Art World" they purport to examine are unrealistic and a dying breed. Where a magazine such as American Art Collector explores well crafted and original works of art, looks at the galleries through which they sell, and examines their pricing... Art News and Art in America, which were once highly respected magazines are now little better than the tabloids... looking at the lives of the rich and famous "art stars" and "art collectors" that really have little to do with the finest art of our day.

[qimissung]

The Smithsonian. I'm considering getting a subscription for The New Yorker, mainly because they sent me a fantastic offer. I've read it before and have quite enjoyed it.

As to the internet, it has it's place, but why is it so inconceivable that print and the internet could peacefully co-exist? I don't get that attitude that the sooner books and magazines go away the better. I find it rather juvenile, one-sided, and myopic.

[Sancho]

Howdy Q,

Smithsonian, in my humble opinion, is a great read, and another of my subscriptions, or rather memberships in their case. This month’s Charles Dickens article was good, but the Ancient Modernism article (about portraits from third century A.D. Egypt) was mind-bendingly phenomenal.

The first magazine I had a subscription to – compliments of my GrandPappy – was Ranger Rick. Does anybody remember that one?

[irinmisfit92]

Anything with partially clad or nude women.

Good one, Mutatis. I read everything online now. New Internationalist is awesome, and I'm surprised no one has mentioned it here.

[faithosaurus]

I'm in love with Vogue, but only when I'm in the mood to actually read a magazine.

[MystyrMystyry]

I get easily lost in electronic music magazines which I've read since I can remember.

Back when hardware synthesizers still outclassed software synthesizers I'd read about the latest machines with all the scintillating new oscillators and get a knot in my stomach at not being able to afford them.

Nowadays softsynths are generally brilliant with features (and a dime-a-dozen so anyone can download them, often for free). This means that these days any abdominal discomfort is now the result of not having enough time to fully explore just one before there's a new armada of them on the horizon - virtually anyone can construct one from other software programs incorporating just the features they want, but occasionally someone will introduce a whole slew of new innovations that force a person to make time to explore the sonic possibilities.

Whole days and/or nights can disappear fiddling with knobs and sliders to extract the right balance between music and noise, and thus create something new yet still pleasing to a listener's ear.

[TurquoiseSunset]

I buy food magazines and occasionally a gardening magazine.

[Scheherazade]

Used to get "Scientific American" but due to some subscription mishap, delivery stopped two years ago and been lazy to re-organise it again. I should look into that.

Also, TIME. I like the mix of politics and casual in it. Not necessarily agree with their stance in every issue but no point in reading something that you always agree with, I feel.

Magazines are great gap-fillers. One can read a page and put it down easily, which is a hard thing to do with a book. I always keep couple of issues in the bathroom as I don't worry too much if they fall into the tub and get wet, either. Not very practical taking one's laptop into the bathtub to read the digital copies!

[Pensive]

My favorite has to be a local magazine called Urdu Digest. Even though its standard is continuously falling lately it still has a lot to offer people of all age-groups! I also like The Economist mainly because it helps me to remain up-to-date in regards to my field of study!