<p>I’m considering signing up for a magazine subscription to boost up my reading ability and become an informed and intellectual person.
Which magazine would be best in serving me this purpose?
Some I can think of right now are:</p>
<p>Harper
The Economist
New Yorker
Atlantic</p>
<p>You asked for magazines, but I would add a newspaper or two - perhaps The Financial Times, WSJ, and, a foreign newspaper or two, gives you global perspective.</p>
<p>An excellent on-line newspaper is The Christian Science Monitor [The</a> Christian Science Monitor | csmonitor.com](<a href=“http://www.csmonitor.com/]The”>http://www.csmonitor.com/)</p>
<p>Before you sign up for a subscription, see if reading the economist.com website would interest you. They have some of their articles that are in the print edition over there, and it’s a great informative site. </p>
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<p>I get the Economist and the New Yorker and love to read both. Economist covers global issues and is very analytic and The New Yorker has a wide range of wonderful writing, from editorials to in depth reviews of a variety of topics, as well as some great fiction.</p>
<p>Smithsonian is wonderful, because it has a mix of articles–art, music, history, travel, etc.</p>
<p>Informed and intellectual person…subscribe to a news magazine and a newspaper (they don’t have to be dead-tree ones). Be aware that we tend to like information that confirms what we already believe so try to get information from a wide variety of sources, including other people. If you ask people questions with sincerity and create conversations, you will not only learn a lot but you will be much in demand as a friend. </p>
<p>Instead of subscribing to any of these magazines, doesn’t your local library (school or public) already get them? Save your money and read them there. It will also cut down on the amount of junk mail you receive since 99% of magazine sell their subscription lists.</p>
<p>Good point Novelisto. The library where I work subscribes to dozens of magazines and all of the ones mentioned here plus off the wall ones like Mother Earth News, Mad magazine, etc. We hold the current one for in-house reading only but circulate the older ones. We have a few patrons that routinely take out a dozen magazines at a time and I always think what a good idea that is.</p>
<p>I’d go for a weekly (at home or at library) rather than a monthly.</p>
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<p>I would also read the Financial Times for a global perspective. [World</a> business, finance and political news from the Financial Times ? FT.com US](<a href=“http://www.ft.com/home/us]World”>Financial Times)</p>
<p>I really appreciate the posts!
I’m just wondering, but once you subscribe to one or two magazines, is it favorable to read every single writing or page in every weekly or monthly issue (excluding things like advertisements, of course) if you were to make the most of your magazine reading? I’m worried that, if I subscribed to a weekly-published magazine like the Economist, I wouldn’t be able to finish every issue in a week until a new issue is published the following week, and consequently end up getting behind and just piling up issues unfinished.</p>
<p>I think that being interested in what you are reading will accelerate your progress. Therefore, I’d recommend limiting your reading to what interests you the most in each issue of any periodical.</p>
<p>Over time, I’d try to adjust the number of articles that you read in each issue so that you can start on a new issue more or less when it arrives.</p>
<p>In your list I’d choose the New Yorker, iy has a nice mix of fiction and non-fiction and reviews. It’s been a while since I’ve had a subscription, but I know in the past I’ve been sucked into learning more than I ever wanted to know about all sorts of arcane subjects. It’s written at a level that should be good for expanding vocabularies, and I like the cartoons.</p>