We only get The New Yorker and The Atlantic now. Let Esquire, Vanity Fair, Harpers, and Mojo end over the last five years. I have a hard time reading articles online though. Glad they still produce the hard copies!
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For years I got Victoria magazine. I’ve kept the old issues and still like paging through them - home decor, gardening, a few recipes, a bit of fashion. So relaxing and different from my job!
My “normal” magazines are Oprah (until it stopped being published), Kiplinger, and People (it’s been a Christmas gift from a family member for the last several years). I have also tried BH&G, Good Housekeeping, Southern Living, other financial magazines, Real Simple (I will likely get that again), Time and Newsweek at various times, and some I’m forgetting. The worst magazine I ever got was Women’s Day. I probably got it as an add-on to BH&G or GH, but didn’t read it much.
Real Simple seems like the most mentioned here! It’s the only one I regularly buy (but I need to not be so behind in reading it!) What’s the magic of Real Simple?
What do you like in a magazine?
What do you skip over?
We get in the mail:
New Yorker
Atlantic
Science
The Sun
Poet and Writers
Writer’s Chronicle
Vanity Fair (free for some reason, rarely read except online)
Wired (same)
Whichever various small lit mags came with submissions by me that unexpectedly show up
I try to keep up with the New Yorkers, but they defeat me sometimes. I’m bingeing The Good Place, and there’s a joke about someone sentenced by a demon to be locked in an empty room except for a stack of New Yorkers:
“Oh c’mon, you and I both know I won’t read those”
“But they’ll just…keep…coming…(evil laughter)”.
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I love Cook’s Illustrated - the cooking magazine for nerds. My collection only goes back to 2003. The only other magazine I subscribe to for paper copies is Fine Homebuilding. It’s aimed at builders not architects, but it’s much more useful for my sort of work than any of the architecture magazines have ever been.
I subscribe to The Atlantic on line, but don’t read it regularly. However I read enough articles that are linked by friends that I usually get up to the quota of free articles and I started feeling guilty about not supporting them.
Love No Depression, but not a subscriber. They do send me email every week, though.
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My husband just re-upped his subscription to The Sun. I used to read it but found it a little heavy for me. I do like that it exists and I think that is why he subscribed, to help keep them afloat.
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We used to do magazines when the kids were little. Loved all the Cricket group mags.
I haven’t personally subscribed to a magazine in decades probably. I had a subscription to Organic Gardening and maybe Mother Earth News 20 years ago. I also pick up the occasional magazine at a the grocery store or Barnes & Noble, but I don’t subscribe.
I appreciate the magazine as a media form, but I am trying to bring less stuff into the house so it’s a no from me. We do subscribe to our local paper and the NYTimes online only.
I used to subscribe to more magazines. Right now, I get The New Yorker, NY Review of Books, Poets and Writers, and Vogue. I subscribe to my local newspaper (Boston Globe) and the NY Times online. Also, my small town in MA has an independent weekly newspaper (not part of a large chain of suburban newspapers that’s taken over many of the small town papers in my area) and I subscribe. This paper has had trouble surviving financially and the publisher asked folks if they would do multi-year subscriptions, which I did. Folks who did so have kept the paper going. When my kids were young, I worked as a copy editor/proofreader for the paper.
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I subscribe to magazines via Amazon, usually when they offer teaser rates of $5 for 6 or 12 months if you sign up for auto-renewal. You can cancel the auto-renewal at any time, so I cancel it as soon as I receive the first issue. I tend to vary the magazines from year to year. Right now, I’m getting Southern Living, Real Simple, The New Yorker, Better Homes and Gardens, Family Handyman, DIY Magazine and Good Housekeeping. In the past, I’ve subscribed to Wired, PC, Veranda, Architectural Digest, Midwest Living and many others.
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Loved Fine Homebuilding! Don’t use it anymore, but a great journal.
We also subscribed to This Old House. I’m going through older ones for a second time, and finally recycling them. Except for the ads, most articles are still applicable 
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I have seen it but never opened a copy. Now I will.
I used to read Time and Newsweek cover to cover.
There have been periods when those New Yorkers piled up unopened but now that it is online I admit I read it in small bites when I am supposed to be doing something else.
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I only subscribe to the New Yorker but they do tend to pile up. Sometimes I will read every article including those about what the author ate at various tiny restaurants in NYC even though I go to NYC less than once a decade. I did like More and before that, George! My sister’s FIL was a dentist and she still gets his People and other office magazines for free even though he has been dead for years.
I subscribe to both Smithsonian and Discover magazine. I love the articles in both. I also get Martha Stewart’s Living, but that is just because Traditional Home stopped publishing and it was offered as a substitute to fill out the subscription. I will not renew. I usually read the other two cover to cover (unless there is an article about snakes, which I hate!!)
I have always adored magazines, and better the one with long form writing. Currently The New Yorker has won out over the Atlantic, though I subscribed for many years. Martha Stewart Living comes with my botanical garden membership. Sierra comes with Sierra Club membership. Outside is a favorite and the online articles, a favorite diversion if waiting someplace. I just stopped National Geographic, as I have a few years to catch up on…A friend just gave me The Sun for my birthday last year and I’d continue to subscribe. On line I read Real Simple a bit and The NY Times and WA Post.
Last summer Ds and I were going to have an experiment on vacation. We’d each read New Yorker cover to cover and compare the times. Never did get it done.
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