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?
"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)
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.
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!
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 - it's a Hindi website with an option to translate the links I reckon). And, Fountain Ink - 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.
As heads up for non-Indians, they have occasional articles that are not purely focused on India.
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.