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Any recommendations for magazines? I wouldn't mind subscribing to one or two so I have something to casually browse when I'm tired of staring at a monitor. It seems like when I buy magazine at a store though, it's 60% ads, 30% sponsored articles, and 10% interesting content. I'm usually left wondering why I just spent $10 to look at advertising. Do good ones actually exist?

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I think my favourite, overall, is The New Yorker. Good blend of culture, current affairs, as well esoteric/niche interest stories. In my uneducated opinion, very well written and edited. I always skip the local goings-on-about-town (as I'm not in NYC), and will often skip the short fiction as well. There are pages with ads, but I've never considered it a nuisance like in some other mags.

I've tried reading a few other publications but find them a chore or a bore to get through.

New Yorker or New York magazine if that's your vibe. N+1 is good. There is some way to get print copies of Nautilus but it was buried pretty deep on the site IIRC. That's what I get.

Foreign Affairs is really high quality writing, and doesn't have too many ads. I also used to subscribe to N+1, and that was good too.

Jacobin is great if your politics swing that way. Zero ads or sponsored content or anything, and each issue goes pretty in depth into a timely theme. The latest issue, for example, is all about inflation

I don't mind Psychology Today.

If you are an anime fan, Otaku USA.

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