by Ann Kjellberg, editor Magazines build a coherent sensibility both from conscious ideas of themselves and the temperaments of their editors, a coherent sensibility that translates into a kind of recommendation engine, drawing readers outward from themselves.
(PPS. Big fan of the Baffler's sensibility and content, including fiction and poetry. Regular emails from editors that summarize an issue's contents and the connections between different pieces are a wonderful, horizon-expanding feature. You click for the politics but stay for the fiction, or vice versa.)
"What we really need to be talking about is some viable model of subsidy or financial protection for important cultural work." YES!
Huh. Well, I do feel very good about maintaining my New Yorker subscription, which yes, I get in print!
(PPS. Big fan of the Baffler's sensibility and content, including fiction and poetry. Regular emails from editors that summarize an issue's contents and the connections between different pieces are a wonderful, horizon-expanding feature. You click for the politics but stay for the fiction, or vice versa.)
(PS. Sigrid Undset!)
Abby thanks for writing! Would love to hear from other readers what magazines stay current for them!