The Atlantic, Entrepreneur, Popular Science, House and Home, Better Homes and Gardens, New Yorker.

Money
Smart Money
Kiplinger's
Washingtonian
The Economist

Field and Stream.

Just kidding.

The Economist
Hollywood Reporter
Los Angeles Magazine
The New Yorker
Vanity Fair
Rolling Stone

The above I will buy.

If I am waiting in a doctor's office I'll read anything they put out.

There are several that I read occasionally. I've had a subscription to Southern Living for as long as I can remember. It's the only one I read regularly.

Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. You get the most words for the money.

The New Yorker
Runners' World
The Economist
The Nation

me, 41, one young kid , white woman
Oprah
Travel and Leisure
Garden and Gun (probably the best magainze out now)
Southern Living occasionally

Yes I am southern.

34 female, married, one kid:

US Weekly
The Economist
Time

In order of preference:

National Geographic
New Yorker
Atlantic
Art in America

I like Vanity Fair, but sometimes it is too much like reading Vogue. They tend to pick their hep people to promote and then put pictures of them/write stories about them in every Conde Nast magazine. I am tired of seeing pictures of Fran Leibowitz in every issue, at every party.....

Anonymous wrote:I always though Vanity Fair was my go-to. You know, the one I grab at the kiosk at the train station or at the airport book seller. But I realized that I really hate reading it! I can't stand the clutter of pictures with the highlighted text captions. Articles have only been OK. It is not visually beautiful at all. So I am giving up on it. Will look at these others as my "go to".

I'm with you (pp with "too much vanity in Vanity Fair"). I still enjoy occasional "long articles" in VF (and sometimes I actually learn something new from them) but on several recent occasions I felt this "bad aftertaste" after looking through a copy and first I couldn't put my finger on it, just something very annoying and I think it is a contrast between intelligence and depth in some of the articles and extreme materialistic shallowness in everything else - and I'm not talking about the ads. So I finally came to conclusion that there is indeed too much of actual vanity fair in VF for my taste (I used to think that the name was entirely tongue in cheek but it seems like they take it as a mandate now). So now I buy it only if there is a specific article I want to read and it is not available online - probably once a year or so.

If you are a woman - see if you enjoy More.

But in general my feeling that magazines are indeed not what they used to be thanks to the Internet. I recently picked Time in my doctor's reading room - and my reaction was "is it for real?" A shadow of its former self (and probably will be dead soon).
Sad indeed..

I always though Vanity Fair was my go-to. You know, the one I grab at the kiosk at the train station or at the airport book seller. But I realized that I really hate reading it! I can't stand the clutter of pictures with the highlighted text captions. Articles have only been OK. It is not visually beautiful at all. So I am giving up on it. Will look at these others as my "go to".

I am forty-six and love many magazines.

Kids grown and out of the home. Empty nest.

My faves: People, Us Weekly, Cosmopolitan, All You, Real Simple, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Redbook, Woman's Day, Glamour, Marie Claire, Oprah and Allure.

I used to be a huge fan of More, but they have recently changed to more upscale and I find it too sophisticated for me.

*PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: ------> If you subscribe to any magazine(s), please learn a lesson from my mistake.

Do NOT pay for your subscription by credit or debit card. It is best to mail in a personal check or money order.

Reason being is that once your subscription ends, they will automatically re-new your subscription and charge your card.

Then you have to contact them and it takes forever for them to reimburse you.

Best to play it safe and not let them know your credit or debit card no.#

Jet and Ebony.

Anything else is for privileged folks, Oreos, and sell outs.