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I read The Atlantic because I am good New Englander.

Scientific American.

>>2046623

The Atlantic
Harper's

I don't get the point of magazines in the internet age. Books are different because i'm not going to sit in front of my monitor and read hundreds of pages, but short articles and pictures are what the internet is for.

I subscribe to The New Yorker, Newsweek, and New Scientist, read Wall St Journal, and NY Times online for news coverage.

None that are /lit/ related (I don't know of any T-T) but i do pick up National Geographic (only one I'm subscribed to as i have been for years), Scientific American, Discover (when the cover looks interesting), Nature, 3D World, 3D Artist.

Alex Jones' Infowar, The Monthly Review,

>>2046649

Hi-fructose, fangoria

Does Guardian Weekly count as a magazine?

Spin. I know, but most music mags are terrible.

Also Nat Geo.

>>2046706

Nah, it's more of a newspaper to be honest.

Though whereabouts do you live that you feel the need to get that? Are you a fellow Australian increasingly depressed at the Fairfax papers or god forbid, stuck in a Murdoch-only one newspaper town? Someone stuck in Singapore or Africa?

>>2046723
Australian in Sydney. I've got enough nous and connection that I don't need to read an Australian newspaper for anything more than shit, giggles, and job ads.

The London Review of Books.

Look at all you plebs with pictures in your magazines. How uncultured.

>>2046731

"Nous and connection": are you a freakin' hollow man in Sussex Street? (Actually that'd explain the job ads)

I'm pretty much in the same boat so I cancelled my subscription to The Age. Most of the decent content of theirs you can just get on the Faifax Digital/National Times site.

I always looked at getting Guardian Weekly subscription but it's a little too pricy for something that is a lot smaller than I thought it was. And considering I already rape their website for all it's worth (among others) the value just wasn't there for me. Especially since I'm going to be abusing it more once I get a Kindle with Calibre's RSS setup.

Just started subscribing to NYLON because there's no more close book stores

>>2046752
No, I'm more in the position that the old Communist Party Australia intellectuals had—connections with the ALP left, the unions' intellectuals, and the extra-parliamentary socialists.

Most ALP right internal shit fights aren't really worth knowing about. Most business news is only worth knowing about in aggregate. etc.

Its a shame there isn't a decent left magazine or newspaper. The ALP Left / disillusioned ex ALP Left keep trying to set one up, but they're never as good as Helen Palmer's /Outlook/.

National Geographic. I read a whole bunch and have thought about other subsciptions but I always end up thinking that I'd just go buy them. Science, politics, nature, and all that stuff.

The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Los Angeles, Empire, National Geographic, NME, Interior Design

>>2046802

Better than my political connections: an increasingly jaded rank and file left-leaning ALP member/private-school history teacher (with a Bulletin-fetish) and a slightly schizoid Young Liberal moderate (that is, when he isn't idolising Jeff Kennett) who tells me all the little suburban party stuff that doesn't have much real-world implications outside of knowing about that one Federal MP that got shot at by her drug dealer kid's acquaintances far earlier than the media apparently did. Most of it just makes some of the ALP Right stuff sound interesting.

Oh, and then there's this one guy I know's Unitard Dad who ran for my outer-suburban swing seat under Latham but now spends his days as a lobbyist (sorry...strategic communications specialist) for a "InsideOut Strategic" which just sounds vaguely sinister.

On the newspaper/magazine thing you're absolutely right though. I just placate myself with a copy of The Monthly borrowed from the library and call it a day really. Though it's obviously a little mediocre, and I daresay you probably don't like Robert Manne.

There's always the Green-Left Weekly!!!!

Economist

>>2046909
After you've known four or five editors in chief of Green Left Weekly… you get more out of a good conversation. Solidarity (the current ISO style tendency) does a decent newspaper. Rick Kuhn's mob (Socialist Alternative) do a decent academic journal, even though their line is very old school vulgar marxist.

Don't think much of Manne.

It is rather pathetically obvious why the Greens don't have a newspaper—they'd have to face up to the internal debate over green socialism.

Just wondering, has anyone ever picked up a Cosmopolitan and just read an article or two?

That magazine is the fucking definition of "sex sells". It's also told from the point of view from a 30-something single woman, which makes it even worse.

>>2046929

The Greens don't need a newspaper, at least not in Melbourne with The Age boosting them. And as I understand it, their internal debates might get a little more public when Brown eventually leaves, especially if it's during Abbott's Reich and the Murdoch machine has more time on it's hands...

I'm reading Solidarity's site right now and if that's anything to go by, it's actually really quite good. I joke about the GLW, especially as it's line can rankle my young, lower-middle class cynical leftie sentiments, but I admit I still find myself going to it in amongst my regular news reading.

>>2047000
That's because in Melbourne the Greens have a single political line. The difference between the old left metropole Greens and the tree hugging petits bourgeois in the rural electorates is quite heightened in NSW.

Bob Brown's ideosyncratic anti-class politics will end, and the Greens will have to come to terms with the fact that they are in exactly the same position that the ALP was in in 1890.

>>2047000
To follow on—Solidarity are trying pretty hard. They haven't been this sensible since 2000 when there was a miniature "all-party" alliance around shutting down the WTO in Melbourne.

Congratulations to Solidarity for getting it together for a while.