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Ask HN: What are your favorite magazines?
I see a lot of threads for book recommendations, but I haven't seen one yet for magazines. What are your favorites, HN?
- ChrisRR 9y agoRetro Gamer is one of my favourites here in the UK.
- nullbyte 9y agoThe Economist. I think it is one of the last general readership journals worth reading.
- wj 9y agoMy favorite as well. I don't have time to get through the whole thing every week but I do feel much better informed after reading it and it allows me to spare the vicious contempt that U.S. cable news has.
- hourislate 9y agoFine Homebuilding. The last magazine that I still insist on a hard copy.
- indescions_2017 9y agohttp://www.phrack.org/ http://www.phrack.org/
- taylodl 9y agoGuitar Player (http://www.guitarplayer.com http://www.guitarplayer.com) is the only print magazine I regularly read anymore. Though I did buy the first issue of the Omni magazine reboot last night!
- chauhankiran 9y agoI personally enjoy Safari India[0] magazine. [0]. http://eng.safari-india.com/archives.aspx http://eng.safari-india.com/archives.aspx
- pmdulaney 9y agoThe Atlantic, The New Criterion, Commentary, the UK edition of Wired, and (not a magazine, but like it, for me) the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal.
- rockdiesel 9y agoThe Economist, 2600 and, specifically when I fly, I like buying some of the history magazines that are usually in the airport bookstores, but the name of the magazines escapes me right now.
- partisan 9y agoThumbs up for 2600, Foreign Policy. The Economist and Lapham's Quarterly are my usual buys as well.
- balladeer 9y agoIt used to be Newsweek India edition. Then they went no-print and when they came back and started printing again they never resumed printing for India. The US edition would be a lot costlier for me after currency conversion and a lot more after shipping is added. Also, I might not be able to connect much. The ones I read regularly are from India and most of HNers might not have heard about the. Caravan (www.caravanmagazine.in) - pretty good long form pieces. Then there's a Hindi literary magazine - Hans (https://www.hanshindimagazine.in https://www.hanshindimagazine.in - it's a Hindi website with an option to translate the links I reckon). And, Fountain Ink - http://fountainink.in http://fountainink.in. They usually pick very interesting subjects, subjects that other media establishments either miss or just give less than a cursory look. Just like books, I never had any success with e-newspapers and e-magazines. Distraction is just one worry. Though I manage to read some long form articles on the web every month or so.
- consultanturnot 9y agoSky & Telescope
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago2600
- Isamu 9y agoHi-Fructose (honestly) https://hifructose.com/ https://hifructose.com/
- tomcam 9y agoWow, never heard of it. Great find, thanks
- hkmurakami 9y agoGaku (岳), a Japanese mountaineering magazine.
- kadal 9y agoThe new yorker
- grahamg 9y agoThe Baffler, It's a magazine of cultural, political, and business analysis. https://thebaffler.com/ https://thebaffler.com/
- alehul 9y agoThe New Criterion - They're the only politically conservative magazine that pens clever arguments, and in a verbose style like The New Yorker. Their arts critiques are rooted in a love of classic periods like Romanticism and Renaissance. Jacobin - A pro-socialism/communism magazine with beautiful design and often convincing arguments. Lapham's Quarterly - A history magazine that ties past events to current ones; often super interesting. The Hedgehog Review - Very educational, focused on a specific topic each issue. Inference Review - New and online-only, but full of brilliant content from the likes of Noam Chomsky, and generally leaders of respective fields. Side note: "Trump and the Trumpists" (Vol 3 Issue 1) was the most insightful, unbiased and accurate explanation of Trump voters I had ever read.
- oblib 9y agoInference Review looks like a lot of fun. Noam's piece on language was great. I bookmarked the site. Lapham's Quarterly has been in my bookmarks for awhile now so I'll 2nd that one, and I'll look at the others you've mentioned as well. Thank you for sharing these!
- SyneRyder 9y agoFuture Music & Computer Music. I don't buy them regularly (each issue costs about $20 - $25 in Australia), but I keep the issues I've bought and found them surprisingly timeless. The artist interviews are often about the creative process & workflows. They interviewed Moby just before his Play album went to #1, and it contains my favorite quote on impostor syndrome: "I'd done a mix here and I put it on headphones. Then I thought, just for fun I'd put on [The Prodigy's] The Fat Of The Land. It sounded a million times better so I got very depressed.... When you're working by yourself you can lose objectivity so quickly and molehills become mountains. I'll be working on a song and if I can't get the kick drum to sound right I'll think I'm a failure and walk around Manhattan, mourning my fate. It doesn't matter that I've made lots of records in the past. All that matters is I can't get one kick drum right. And all I can think about is my career's over and I'm going to have to become a fries chef at McDonalds." - Moby (pg 63, Future Music 84, July 1999)
- woodandsteel 9y agoI have subscriptions to the Atlantic, Commentary, Consumer Reports, New York Review of Books, and the Review of Metaphysics. I used to subscribe to the New Republic, but it changed so much after it got bought out a couple of years ago that I dropped it.
- ajmurmann 9y agoNautilus
- sixQuarks 9y agoNew Scientist - best layman's science magazine, updated weekly.
- valeriomon31 9y agoThe Economist and Il Sole 24 Ore are my usual buys!
- cyberviewer 9y agoBSD Magazine https://bsdmag.org/ https://bsdmag.org/