must-have magazines

[Jeff_Rake]

I'm about to get out the check book and subscribe to a new batch of magazines for 2007.

Other than the obvious (Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, etc.), are there any real good sports/general magazines that you guys personally enjoy?

I've heard some good things about the Basketball Times, is that worth checking out at 12 issues/$24?

Thanks!

 

[Ledbetter]

Esquire is the best magazine on the planet. Just ask our friend Jones.

 

[Songbird]

I've been getting into The Atlantic lately. Today there was a funny story by Jeff (I think) Buckley about 2008 Elections and the role Cuban Americans in south Florida will play. Might have been an excerpt to his book. Either way, funny. Good story in the back of the mag about the future of newspapers and the Internets.

If that doesn't work, try the glossy porno mags.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Ditto on Atlantic Monthly. Always has interesting articles. James Fallows has done excellent work writing about the War on Terror.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

swank, oui

 

[Songbird]

"Today I read" is how I should have prefaced my post.

 

[spup1122]

Not a sports magazine, but I'm a fan of Harpers (not Harpers Bizarre). Always interesting stories and interesting analysis.

 

[Almost_Famous]

Subscriptions:

New Yorker
Esquire
ESPN the Mag


HIGHLY recommend the New Yorker. It's the best writing on the planet, and you'll learn lots. This week has a GREAT article on the Rumsfeld tenure. Two weeks ago i learned a lot about Lagos, Nigeria. It's a fascinating stuff. Without getting too sappy, the Lagos article prompted me to call my father and tell him how proud/happy i was that he got to this country and worked his ass off to give our family a good life (not that I'm from Lagos). Plus, it gives you stuff to talk to others about instead of sports when out with friends.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I subscribe to a bunch, but the only ones I really look forward to are Esquire, The Week, and Blender.

And I've mentioned it here repeatedly, but I very highly recommend buying magazine subscriptions on eBay.

 

[Songbird]

For fellow Jews in the house, Heeb is funny while being informative.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

I would subscribe to something called Harpers Bizarre.

 

[BYH]

I would subscribe to something called Harpers Bizarre.

This month: Where Are They Now visits Alvin Harper.

Next month: A nostalgic look back at Barbara Eden, star of TV's "Harper Valley PTA."

 

[zeke12]

Barely Legal.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Car and Driver

 

[Ledbetter]

Bait

 

[Johnny Rockets]

Lots of good suggestions here. I've got to second The New Yorker..it is as good as it gets, in my opinion..but Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire all definitely worth your while..I would also strongly suggest The Economist. That's another powerhouse mag. Have gotten into Vanity Fair and GQ more recently, and they've got some great stuff, particularly VF with politics..

Stopped subscribing to Basketball Times a couple of years ago because the content was so dated by the time the magazine arrived, but I'm open to trying it again..Anybody recommend it?

 

[leo1]

i'll add my vote for new yorker but with a caveat.

i consider myself an informed person and i'm interested in national and world politics. that said, i read magazines at night before i go to bed to relax and i don't want to read about the war on terror before i go to sleep.

i also never read their pop culture reviews. so although the war/terror/politics reporting is unparalleled in the new yorker, if you're not interested in it and don't want the pop reviews, there are weeks when there is almost nothing to read. but the quality of writing and reporting is so high that to me, it's still worth the price of a subscription even if i skim it half the time.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

FourFourTwo...a monthly British-based soccer mag which has some dynamite writing. It's like $39 a year.

 

[Almost_Famous]

Leo - I love the movie reviews. In fact, they're the only ones I read. Strangely, i've found myself into their bird watching stories. ****, they had a big piece on redwood trees in Cali a while back and I even read that!

 

[leo1]

Leo - I love the movie reviews. In fact, they're the only ones I read. Strangely, i've found myself into their bird watching stories. ****, they had a big piece on redwood trees in Cali a while back and I even read that!

AF, i can see where someone would love the movie reviews. you don't get that kind of analysis anywhere else online or in print. you can call me a simpleton but i don't like to think that hard about movies. same goes for when they run a 10,000 word profile of an artist or composer who peaked in the 1930s - i just don't care.