Magazines

As mentioned in conversation to Charles, here is my ordered list of magazines from the summer of 2003, favorite to least favorite:

1. The Nation
2. The Onion
3. Harper's
4. The New Yorker
5. Times Literary Supplement
6. London Review of Books
7. The Economist
8. The New Republic
9. The Atlantic Monthly
10. Spin
11. The Source
12. Rolling Stone
13. CMJ
14. ESPN The Magazine
15. Sports Illustrated
16. Newsweek
17. Time
18. U.S. News & World Report
19. Entertainment Weekly
20. Movieline
21. Weekly World News
22. Maxim, Stuff, FHM

Not included are the comments I made. One note I made was that I thought the popular weekly newsmagazines, toward the end of the list, tried to make people worry about things discussed within the magazine so that it would become a necessary safeguard against the unknown dangers of their environment. I haven't read newsweeklies much lately, so I can't say if I still feel the same way.

You may also note I included two book review publications fairly high. This isn't because they informed me about great books, it's just that I liked reading the criticism and essays.