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Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by croissants »

omosubi wrote: post #5

Lapham's Quarterly - each issue (4x a year) looks at a different topic with a focus on history and showing various perspectives across times and cultures. each issue has writing from the ancients through this year. Cabinet - I used to subscribe to this one but my subscription lapsed. it is kind of a hipster magazine and some of the stuff in there is obtuse garbage but every once in a while they hit it. this is a good…

Just subscribed to Lapham's. I've read a few pieces from them over the years, but somehow this description clinched actual subscription.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by ArtWomb »

If, Mondo2000, OMNI. "Speculative techno-utopianism", if one had to affix a label to the genre. Not sure if anything exists like that today?

https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine

https://archive.org/details/mondohistory

https://archive.org/details/OMNI197908/Best_of_OMNI_1_1980/

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by croissants »

nyellin wrote: post #2

Lucky Peach and McSweeney.

+1 for Lucky Peach. It's been out of print for a few years now, but you can pick up issues from eBay and used bookstores for $5-10 each if you're patient and willing to buy multiple issues at once.

Each issue is about one topic (Chinatown, Summer, All You Can Eat, Plants, etc.) and has some mix of recipes, travelogue, art, fiction, memoir, history, etc. If you're interested in food, this is some of the most "fun" food writing around. A personal favorite of mine is the "Fantasy" issue, which is written around chefs and dishes that don't exist, and kind of doubles as an affectionate parody of food writing.

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Post by AstroJetson »

omosubi wrote: post #5

Lapham's Quarterly - each issue (4x a year) looks at a different topic with a focus on history and showing various perspectives across times and cultures. each issue has writing from the ancients through this year. Cabinet - I used to subscribe to this one but my subscription lapsed. it is kind of a hipster magazine and some of the stuff in there is obtuse garbage but every once in a while they hit it. this is a good…

Well that's yet another rabbit hole that residents of hacker news have tossed me down. The article about pallets was very cool and rekindled my interest in building things out of the wood from closed pallets.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by satya71 »

gallegojaime wrote: post #71
yuy910616 wrote: post #18

I've been reading the Economist for about 10 years. It provides great coverage on big issues, and recently, some fun ones (billie eilish comes to mind). It's unique in that it feels "slower", more deliberate, and thoughtful than most newspaper/tv channels. It gives context and covers multiple viewpoints before giving an opinion. Its daily espresso newsletter and quarterly tech issues are always interesting too. I've…

Related to the Economist's areas of writing: what do people think of Harvard Business Review? Does it have valuable content?

HBR occasionally has good pieces and does make me think. Mostly they are fluff pieces advanced by writers with vested interests.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by lbotos »

I've been a big fan of my stack magazine subscription: https://www.stackmagazines.com/subscribe/

It's a little left leaning when they choose "critical" works, but also I received great magazines like OH-SO (https://www.stackmagazines.com/magazine/oh-so-issue-4/) which is an all girls skateboard magazine (great photos and wonderful to see a small community serving itself) and Visions which was fun sci-fi short stories: https://www.stackmagazines.com/magazine/visions-issue-2/ If you want to support a variety of independent magazines and are okay with randomness, most have been great.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by soupfordummies »

trailrunner46 wrote: post #64
yuy910616 wrote: post #18

I've been reading the Economist for about 10 years. It provides great coverage on big issues, and recently, some fun ones (billie eilish comes to mind). It's unique in that it feels "slower", more deliberate, and thoughtful than most newspaper/tv channels. It gives context and covers multiple viewpoints before giving an opinion. Its daily espresso newsletter and quarterly tech issues are always interesting too. I've…

If you like the Economist then you might like Bloomberg Business Week. I know I expected it to be bad but it’s actually wonderful. The design team is amazing. I find it the perfect mix of business/economy and pop culture. Often there are 2 or 3 long form articles on a truly fascinating subject.

Their journalists do a year end “jealousy list” website that is always creatively designed and filled with a TROVE of great articles from the year from all over. I never really see it talked about but I get excited for it every year. Keep your eyes peeled in about a month!
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