List your magazine subscriptions (2022)

Dear learned and cherished friends,

A belated Happy New Year 2022!

I hope you've had a wonderful Christmas and/or holiday season and that my post meets you with a message of renewed hope and encouragement and comradeship. January marks nearly 2 years when the terrible business of Covid began in the West, and although some of us have most likely been affected in some or another way, the loss of friends, family, acquaintances (I've personally lost extended family members), I do hope that brighter times are ahead. I myself have found solace in my Folio books, family and good friends.

My first post on August 9th, 2010 asked our devotees to list their magazine subscriptions. We continued this in 2015, 2019 and 2020.

From the original thread #1:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/96520#

"The aim of this exercise, I would imagine, is that we learn a little background about our esteemed members here through their choices, but as well as that we may stumble upon literary magazines that we might not have known”

(I’m not sure on how to continue a thread so please bear with me.)

I have 2 subscriptions:

1. Slightly Foxed Quarterly along with their Slightly Foxed Editions.
2. Thornwillow Classic Dispatch - a monthly letterpress chapbook

Well I hope that you would again join me.

Faisel

My current subs are:

Slightly Foxed Quarterly
Cycling Weekly
Birdwatching

I also receive and enjoy several mags through memberships - cycling, natural history, orienteering, running, and make good use of The Leeds Library's magazine section!

New York Review of Books
New York Times Book Review
Scientific American
Science News
National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic History Magazine
Smithsonian

I pared down my list as I find it too hard to read periodicals while keeping up with my backlog of books. Just two for me:

1. The Paris Review (quarterly literary magazine)
2. Leviathan (Johns Hopkins periodical on all things Melville, 3x per year)

Edited to correct frequency of #2

I've cleaned up my list considerably although a lot of what I used to subscribe to (NYRB for example) is now available via the library so I can pick up an issue or 3 when I feel like it. So the current list for magazines on paper is:

1. The Paris Review (quarterly)
2. The New Yorker (although the library carries it so I am strongly considering dropping the subscription at least for awhile)
3. NYTRB (the whole Sunday paper really - it just comes with it). Still wondering if I want to get that on digital only as well...

PS: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Analog, Asimov's and Fantasy and Science Fiction - aka the 5 big short story magazines are still being received although they are digital now so they do not take space

I also have running subscriptions for a few paper speculative magazines (On Spec for example) which don't always get their issues out in the normal time frames. Plus I keep an eye on a few webzines (especially the fiction ones).

Now... what I do manage to read is a different story.

PS: Shouldn't the title be 2022 and not 2021? :)

My list hasn't changed too much.

New Scientist;
LRB;
BBC Music Magazine;
Classic & Sportscar;
Doctor Who Magazine;
The Guardian (online only, I like the others to be a physical presence because I am more inclined to actually pick them up and get stuck in)

Mind you, as >5 AnnieMod: says:

'Now... what I do manage to read is a different story.'

Slightly Foxed, including editions subscription.
Private Eye.
Hi Fi News and Record Review.
The latter seems to concentrate these days on components that cost much more than my car, but I have been reading it for nearly 40 years.
Private Eye is essential reading for anyone interested in what is happening in this country.
Slightly Foxed is for everyone interested in books in any way.

>5 AnnieMod: Ha! You’re right! I didn’t even realise. It’s all the many times writing 2021

How do I change it? Any moderator here that can help?

>8 ironjaw:
Title changed to 2022 ;-)

My magazine subscriptions are -
National Geographic (I have subscribed since I was 10 years old and have every copy since 1926).
New Scientist
and a heap of medical journals.

The Economist -- for 2022 I've switched to online subscription only, after c. 30 years of receiving the paper copy
Sky & Telescope

The Atlantic for unrestricted online access to their writing. Sadly had to drop my London Review of Books sub last year (three kids under 10, not enough time or brain energy to keep up with any of my reading actually - it’s a truly great magazine though)…

Faunus (periodical of The Friends of Arthur Machen)

Wormwood (periodical of Tartarus Press; I don't think there's a way to subscribe, I just buy them when released if I get around to it)

The Private Library (periodical of the Private Libraries Association)

Unchanged from last year, I suspect:
Slightly Foxed
The New Yorker (digital only)
Various magazines which come with memberships, British Museum, National Trust, RSPB etc

Also digital subscriptions to “papers” The Guardian and The New York Times

Unchanged from last year for me as well, probably:

The Guardian (digital subscription)
London Review of Books
The Book Collector
Slightly Foxed
Ghosts & Scholars
Parenthesis
Broadleaf, via membership of the Woodland Trust
Faunus and Machenalia (ditto, the Friends of Arthur Machen)
Friends of the National Libraries issue an Annual Report, not sure it counts in this context though.

And there are also magazines I don't subscribe to (some don't do subscriptions) but I buy every issue:
Wormwood
The Green Book (from Swan River Press)
Weird Fiction Review (from Centipede Press)
Hellebore
BBC Music Magazine

The Spectator
Telegraph
Times (pick it up on a Saturday for its book reviews)

Occasionally read the LRB and TLS too.

We're still doing more than our share to keep the presses rolling.

London Review of Books
TLS
The Tablet
The Spectator
Slightly Foxed
n+1
Salvage
Tribune
Morning Star (daily)
Weekly Worker
Agenda
PN Review
New Left Review
Salisbury Review
The Light
Powys Journal (Powys Society)
Faunus (Friends of Arthur Machen)
Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society

>16 terebinth: that’s quite a lot of reading going on Paul. How do you organise your time to get through all those publications. I subscribed to London Review of Books and fell short in my reading schedule because it was so much tk take in.

>17 ironjaw:

I'm not sure how the policy works or whether it works at all well, but one thing I don't give any time to is organising my time, which is shamelessly formless. I can't say that anything on the list is sure of being read from cover to cover, I browse irregularly, nibbling here and feasting there: thus far between my wife and I the benefit derived from each title, augmented in a few instances by a will to be supportive of the effort, seems enough to keep the subscriptions going. I've included a couple of titles where the responsibility is chiefly hers, while omitting three or four more that are hers alone.

For physical subscriptions in English, I've limited myself to the London Review of Books and the Mekong Review (highly recommended for those with a literary interest in Asia). I also maintain digital subscriptions of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Japan Times. In Japanese, I read every issue of Pen and Casa Brutus, along with keeping up to date with the various local newspapers.

My subscriptions:
Tribune
Jacobin (digital only)
Art Quarterly (included with my National Art Pass membership - I haven't used my Art Pass itself since Jan 2020 but have kept up my membership as a way of supporting galleries and museums through the pandemic)

Not quite a subscription, as it's free to access online but I subscribe as a Friend of the Public Domain Review (with the bonus of receiving sets of interesting, themed postcards every so often!)

Occasional buys:
Pianist magazine (if I fancy the sheet music, otherwise it's available digitally through my library these days)
Dancing Times

And I'm able to read the following through my local library's e-magazine service and/or via institutional subscriptions:
London Review of Books
New York Review of Books
The Paris Review
New Yorker
New York Times (but the database it's accessed through makes it a bit of a faff, so perhaps I'll take out a personal digital subscription sometime);
Geographical
New Philosopher
Pianist (as mentioned above)
a number of cookery magazines
and a few others I dip into here and there

I've also just subscribed to George Saunders' Story Club newsletter, which looks like it will be a lot of fun!

Slightly Foxed - the only subscription I read cover to cover (less reviews of books I positively intend to read and soon).

The pestilence has taken a heavy toll these 20 months. Sacrifices had to be made, subscriptions trimmed to the bare essentials. I am reduced to:

Interpretations: A Journal of Bible and Theology
Biblical Archaeology Review
Currents in Biblical Research
Revue Philosophique de Louvain
Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik
Modern Drunkard
Gent
Juggs
Knave
Slightly Bent

Not much in the way of subscriptions for me:
The Economist (paper)
Financial Times (digital)

The paper subscription to the Economist is a difficult one to justify at the moment. Post is an absolute disaster where I am now and rather than being delivered every Thursday, I'm lucky to get it by the middle of the following week, by which point I've read anything I found particularly interesting online and the next issue is available.

BBC Music Magazine
Faunus, Friends of Arthur Machen (new subscription this year)
Practical Wireless
Radcom (Journal of The Radio Society Of Great Britain)
Sibelius One (Journal of the Sibelius One Society)
Slightly Foxed
The Private Library (new subscription this year)

In addition, I subscribe to 'Readly' (a Web-based service, which does allow downloads for 'offline' reading) for an extremely reasonable monthly subscription payment, which gives me access on my tablet to a vast range of magazines (many hobbyist magazines) and daily newspapers, including some foreign language publications.

I use it regularly for the TLS, for example
David

>24 Boschfan: interesting. Wondering how this compares to Apple’s plus service.

>25 ironjaw:
Sorry, I don't have any knowledge of the Apple service/offer, so I can't offer any comparison I'm afraid.
My Readly subscription costs £7.99 per month - for the use I get from it, it is probably the very best value item I have ever subscribed to.

The app is easy to navigate, I can use it (if memory serves me well) on up to 4 devices and I can download content.

I cover my subscription from my daily newspaper reading alone and - for my interests - there is so much more in addition.

Worth checking out.
David

>26 Boschfan: Thabks, David. Much appreciated. I’ve just seen that Apple News plus doesn’t have TLS, which I’m interested in.

Does anyone here have any experience of :

Canadian Notes and Queries

I'd be particularly interested in anyone's experience of subscribing outside of Canada.

Many Thanks,
David

>28 Boschfan: Sadly, I had never heard of Canadian Notes and Queries, and I am Canadian. I will definitely look into it now though. Thanks.

The only subscription I have is not a magazine but I figure it is relevant to LT discussions. OnSpec, which dubs itself, the Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, publishes quarterly(ish) and features some great speculative writing. It is quite inexpensive and therefore provides lots of value, IMO.

I dropped my National Geographic sub about 18 months ago as the physical space requirements were overwhelming. I also used to have subs with Latham's Quarterly and Foreign Policy.

Another I had not previously heard of is Slightly Foxed, but like CNQ, I will definitely look into it.

>29 robertwmartin: Why wouldn’t On Spec be a magazine? :)

>30 AnnieMod: Good point. I suppose I equate magazine with non-fiction. And hey, I just realized their own description has "magazine" in the title. lol!