Magazines & Zines

The Things They Fancied by Molly Young

I received this as a gift from my friend last year for my birthday, SO good. "A zine about the sick and twisted hobbies of rich people throughout history. Topics include Renaissance pornography, the most expensive perfume in the world, an anorexic Austrian empress, pineapples, pubic hair, French dentistry, squirrels, country manors, “and more.”"

Things Magazine

A gem from the old internet that I have kept close to my heart for ages: Things Magazine is a singularly incredible compiler of fascinating links culled from the far edges of the online realm. I always find something interesting to read at Things. Having my blog listed in their epic sidebar of worthy sources was a banner day.

Illustoria Magazine

brilliant magazine for creative kids. best for kiddos who read independently.

Digitized Magazine Archive 1980-1999

The Magazine Rack on the Internet Archive is a goldmine for researching the pre-algorithm world of niche publishing. Search old late 80s thru late 90s issues of Fantastic Man, Butt, Purple, Nest, Tool, Index, and Cabinet.

keeping crossword puzzles in your purse

The New York Review of Books

Almost always worth reading cover to cover, with the sort of insightful, expansive writing across politics, art, and culture that only occurs when the writer works beyond the bounds of takes and allows actual critical thought to develop. Leanne Shapton's art direction is just the right mix of enlivening, apt, and surprising (I enjoy her emails, under the NYR aegis, about the thinking behind the visuals for each issue.) Just read Mark O'Connell's review of the latest Patrick Radden Keefe book and now feel impelled to run to the nearest bookstore and buy it, but now I am being drawn into articles on the rise and fall David Adjaye and June Leaf's dancing machines ... I also appreciate the broadsheet size; good for hiding behind at airports and in doctor's waiting rooms.

The Work You Do, the Person You Are - Toni Morrison

always need to remember this

The Great Dixter Journal

The Great Dixter Journal is a (sometimes) annual publication from the opinionated and very English gardeners at the beloved 16th century house and garden in East Sussex. Issues are replete with articles on planting, photo essays on topiary, drawings of espalier figs, and the general ongoing work of the team led by Fergus Garrett. My favorite garden in the world, bar none.

Archer Magazine

probably my favourite mag. so special to me. it's a print publication about sexuality, gender and identity. each issue usually has a theme, such as: disability, First Nations, ageing, pleasure, resistance, incarceration, etc.

Nash High's zine arranger

Extremely handy little tool for the graphically inept (like me) that formats multipage PDFs into printable zine layouts. I especially like the mini size, which transforms eight pages into a single sheet ready to turn into a small booklet after a few cuts and folds. Very fun to mess around with on indoors-y afternoons. Other DIY zine links here, too.

Apartamento Magazine Issue #36

I know i can always rely on Apartamento to introduce me to an inspiring project that is going on in the art, design, film, or culinary spheres. I love how i can keep issues forever and keep revisiting them over time. Religiously buy this every time a new issue is published!

Spike

Probably the best art magazine today

INTERVIEW WITH JOHN EARLY

YES. "FOR SCALE" interviews the one and only JOHN EARLY about décor and satire. this image is crucial!: john early as MADDIE RALPH in a "FOR SCALE" exclusive publishing of set prop of john e. photoshopped as maddie r. with the one and only bay area super-chef alice waters freshly liberated from substack paywall just for REC LEAGUE

Stack magazine subscription

If you love magazines, a subscription to Stack is a dream come true, because even if you are lucky enough to live near an excellent newsstand (vanishingly rare), Steve Watson (the founder, and maybe the kindest person working in the magazine realm) has a gift for sourcing and surfacing beautiful and thoughtful publications from all over the world, often way before anyone else is paying attention to them or when a long-timer publishes something that merits fresh eyes. (He's transformed the fate of more than one small pub, giving it the lift needed to survive to future issues.) Steve reads a bonkers amount of magazines (what I wouldn't give for a day to browse the storage unit where he keeps his personal magazine collection ...) and it is fascinating to see what he chooses. And if you can't afford a subscription, the archive of all the magazines Stack has sent out is its own intriguing discovery tool.

Popeye Magazine

One of my favorite magazines for visual & lifestyle inspiration

fukt

this magazine is print as a medium done right

Anchoa: Gastronomía en Latinoamérica

gorgeous food mag exploring Latin American gastronomy.

Tools | Tools Magazine #5

The biannual English printing of French mag Tools is the hot new ticket among the heads. RAD carries it in Atwater Village.

A Public Space

beautifully designed magazine of art, culture, and writing. one of the chic-est things you can read on the subway imo

FOR SCALE IN PRINT ISSUE 3 — GLOBAL SHIPPING

ON SALE NOW, kittens! XXXXXXX Featuring John Early on domesticity in "Maddie's Secret", Karl Fournier of Studio KO on converting Pierre Bergé, Boris Peianov in his underpants on a cc-tapis, Max Radford throwing blankets around, and contributions by (AMONG OTHERS) Charlene Prempeh, Corey Chenier, Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, Uppercut, and Sydney Gore.

Stick Around For The Gloaming

"The soft, lingering glow in the sky after the sun goes down." Unless you're a vampire you should really stick around after sunset to enjoy 'the calm summer gloaming.'

10 Best Japanese Outdoor Magazines

Round-up of great Japanese outdoor mags, including Gakujin, 岳人, (“mountain person”) one of Japan’s oldest and most respected monthly mountaineering magazines launched in May 1947 by volunteers from the Kyoto University Alpine Club.

fukt magazine

Words cannot fully express how much I am obsessed with this publication. Every cover is a beautiful, playful work of art that invites an interactive, tactile experience that makes you appreciate the medium of print a little extra. I am desperate to collect every issue.

n+1

disclaimer that they happen to employ me, but n+1 has absolutely brilliant criticism, clear-eyed political analysis, and some of the most interesting short fiction being published rn!!!