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

Recently a bookstore near me that used to carry lots of interesting periodicals (including my favorite 2600) stopped all of them. So I have decided to subscribe directly. What are some of your favorite magazines/journals (tech and non-tech) that you love and wish would last for a long time to come.

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 example - http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/52/hodes.php

Harper's is usually pretty good though I've never subscribed.

If you live in a big city there are usually a couple really high quality newstands that carry 100s or 1000s of magazines - I love browsing those. recently I came away from one with an issue of Fantasic man, Reason mag, and Harpers. always worth a trip.

Another good place to view magazines is art school libraries. they usually have some more wacky ones like adbusters or BITCH and some of them are true visual feasts. of course they are more liberal so you won't find stuff like the american conservative or anything murdoch owned but every once in a while you will come across something really amazing.

Nice list and not just the publications. I had never heard of Lobster before. And I had forgotten about Physics Today actually.

If you read French, MISC is a great magazine about IT security and hacking. You can find it at the airport between the cars magazines and video games magazines and it will contain excellent articles. For example a JVM hack with the byte code explained in details, or spying a wireless Logitech keyboard by forcing it into an old compatibility mode and then bruteforcing the encryption key, or a step by step tutorial to run a debugger on the Android Snapshat to break its encryption (from my memory).

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