I just realized my library card gives me access to an app I can borrow magazines from. And as someone trying to do less Lemmy scrolling at night and more long form reading, I’m wondering where to start.
I generally like politics, philosophy, interesting facts, history, social issues.
Also, I’m not American if that matters.
What’s your favorite magazines!
New Yorker. Scientific American.
Brooklyn Rail, mainly an arts magazine but they have a great politics section, Field Notes, from which books like Hinterland by Phil A. Neel have been published.
Current Affairs - Useful for keeping up with Doctor Who and his amazing adventures.
Playboy in the 90’s actually did have good articles.
What would the articles be about? I think there’s some options to see previous issues in there, not sure if it goes back that far though.
https://www.angelfire.com/me3/cryin/playboy95.html
First one I could find that didn’t give me a 404 error.
Pretty much every category you said you like articles from! If I get some downtime at work I’ll see if I can send you an example or 2.
They had many points
Man there was nothing better than finding an abandoned skin magazine in the ‘90’s.
Especially when all the pages weren’t stuck together.
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Back in 2003, me and my friend took a break from band practice.
He said he had a porn collection so off we went through the woods behind his house. After a while we get to this one tree and there’s a shovel behind it.
We go back to his house, on the other side is a river. He starts digging in the river back until he pulls out a buried plastic bag. And he just looks horrified when he looks in.
All the magazines are rotten and broken apart by water.
I don’t know what he was expecting to happen. Or why he hid the shovel in the woods. The whole time I was so confused.
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Skeptical Enquirer
One that hasn’t been mentioned in the comments so far: https://www.nplusonemag.com/
Also not magazines, but two excellent contemporary communist journals:
Harper’s Magazine (not to be confused with Harper’s Bazaar). https://harpers.org/ There’s Granta for mostly long-form fiction. A quarterly. It’s excellent but more like a periodic paperback book than a magazine.
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They’re big on free markets and open democracy.
They’re not big on either of those things. They’re big on bourgeois interests, which are economic & political oligarchy and imperialism. Lenin called it, “a journal which speaks for British millionaires,” and now it speaks for the Global North’s billionaires.
I try to point people toward developing real media literacy.
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I like The Guardian Weekly for full international coverage.
The Atlantic
The beating heart of zombie neoliberalism and The Worst Magazine In America.
