# Magazines with heft **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102 "2017-06-29T01:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/1 "2017-06-29T01:03:03Z")
For some time I’ve been reading Lanham’s Quarterly [http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/](http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/), and recently started reading The Economist’s 1843 [https://www.1843magazine.com/](https://www.1843magazine.com/) . Both, especially Lanham’s, have a substantial amount of intellectual meat on the bone. Any recommendations of similar publications? (Please do not mention Monocle, a compendium of high gloss fluff which has the distinction of commending, well before she was famous, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin for bipartisan common sense). ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/2 "2017-06-29T03:19:33Z")
Aw man, I thought you were looking for physical heft. I somehow got subscribed to “Vogue” and it’s about 7x the size of “Rolling Stone”. Physically. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/3 "2017-06-29T04:49:29Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Aw man, I thought you were looking for physical heft. > > I somehow got subscribed to “Vogue” and it’s about 7x the size of “Rolling Stone”. Physically. I decided to subscribe to Teen Vogue in support of their political stances. Lots of other people obviously did the same thing, because it’s been about 6 months and I STILL don’t have the free purse, which is back-ordered. 😛 Intellectual heft, it doesn’t have; it seems to be aimed at flamboyantly gay teenage boys and, to a somewhat lesser degree, teenage girls from extremely wealthy families. Oh, well. “Wine Spectator” is probably the biggest mass-circulation magazine I can think of right now. We get lots of those donated to the library I volunteer at, and we sell them almost as soon as we put them out on the rack. Intellectual heft? The Mensa Bulletin, perhaps? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/4 "2017-06-29T05:12:51Z")
Thanks for the link, Lanham’s looks interesting. _Smithsonian_ usually has some pretty interesting articles, but maybe not the depth you are looking for. For sheer heft, I don’t think anything can compare to the old _Computer Shopper_. The last one I bought (sometime last century) was heftier than a Sears catalog. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/5 "2017-06-29T06:24:34Z")
[Arts and Letters Daily](https://www.aldaily.com/) is a website that provides links to substantial editorial and research pieces published in places like Laphams, Slate, Smithsonian and I must have missed the Teen Vogue article that time when. It seems like a good place to start looking Updates usually with a few links per day on a never-ending scroll, so its easy to pop in when you know you’ve got a lazy hour. Errs towards the more conservative end of the spectrum, but not sure if that is because of their own politics or liking of long-form writing. As title says theres lots of literature in it, but even with no background often these are very readable. Best part is the search engine copes well with questions like ‘the one about South American hat factory’ quite well, although whether those articles are still live or behind a paywall is a lottery. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/6 "2017-06-29T07:02:55Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Aw man, I thought you were looking for physical heft. > > I somehow got subscribed to “Vogue” and it’s about 7x the size of “Rolling Stone”. Physically. The title of my OP is perhaps misleading: I am indeed after something other than a cockroach squasher. Also, I have perpetuated my error of “Lanham’s”, when it is in fact “Lapham’s”. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/7 "2017-06-29T10:02:53Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > [Arts and Letters Daily](https://www.aldaily.com/) is a website that provides links to substantial editorial and research pieces published in places like Laphams, Slate, Smithsonian and I must have missed the Teen Vogue article that time when. It seems like a good place to start looking > > Updates usually with a few links per day on a never-ending scroll, so its easy to pop in when you know you’ve got a lazy hour. > > Errs towards the more conservative end of the spectrum, but not sure if that is because of their own politics or liking of long-form writing. As title says theres lots of literature in it, but even with no background often these are very readable. > > Best part is the search engine copes well with questions like ‘the one about South American hat factory’ quite well, although whether those articles are still live or behind a paywall is a lottery. I love that site and second the recommendation. As for the OP, **The New Yorker.** Excellent journalism, cultural criticism and cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/8 "2017-06-29T11:23:13Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Aw man, I thought you were looking for physical heft. Yeah, me, too. I was about to opine about how much I miss _Computer Shopper_ from it’s heyday. (If there was a physically larger magazine on the market, I never saw it.) Back in the days when I was still buying physical magazines (besides several computer related titles) favorites included _Scientific American_, _American Scientist_, _New Scientist_, _Astronomy_, _Sky and Telescope_, and _Biblical Archaeology Review_. When I could read them in a library (because journal subscriptions are crazy expensive) I liked _Science_, _Nature_, and _Cell_. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/9 "2017-06-29T11:34:02Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I love that site and second the recommendation. > > As for the OP, **The New Yorker.** Excellent journalism, cultural criticism and cartoons. Second The New Yorker, excellent writing. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/10 "2017-06-29T12:19:22Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Aw man, I thought you were looking for physical heft. > > I somehow got subscribed to “Vogue” and it’s about 7x the size of “Rolling Stone”. Physically. Dave Barry suggested that Bride’s magazines were near the top of the heap for physical size, and needed a forklift to get them off the ground. The forklift was the responsibility of the Groom’s side. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/11 "2017-06-29T16:18:55Z")
I’m another one who immediately thought of Arts and Letters Daily when I read the OP. One thing the site does not touch is business magazines. I get _Bloomberg Businessweek_ and I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how much good content it carries. \*Fortune \*used to be that way - it was priority reading in the years of the Great Recession - but it’s been dumbed down too much now to recommend it. A Barnes & Noble in a big city carries tons of intellectual little magazines hard to find elsewhere. I’d recommend stopping in and flipping through some. I’ve found some gems that way. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/12 "2017-06-29T16:47:52Z")
Twenty plus years later and I’m still reeling from the shock of discovering that Scientific American had changed overnight from a journal-quality digest for the amateur scientist to a Discovery Magazine clone. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/13 "2017-06-29T17:11:11Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Twenty plus years later and I’m still reeling from the shock of discovering that Scientific American had changed overnight from a journal-quality digest for the amateur scientist to a Discovery Magazine clone. You haven’t been reading _Discover_ recently. It’s basically a picture mag. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/14 "2017-07-10T09:54:55Z")
> [@DeepLiquid](#): > > Second The New Yorker, excellent writing. Yes, onto The New Yorker and agree it is excellent. Vanity Fair’s non-fashion journalism isn’t bad, either. From a business perspective, there’s McKinsey Quarterly. MIT Technology Review is good, too. Wallpaper magazine is a bit fluffy. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/15 "2017-07-10T10:59:36Z")
In my childhood (the 1950’s), the awesome Scientific American. With every line of text in the picture captions fully justified right, including the last line. A thing of beauty. With Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games and Philip Morrison’s Book Reviews. I got no homework done the day the new issue arrived in the school library. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/16 "2017-07-10T11:23:49Z")
What I like about Laphams is that their website has the charts and maps as categories of their own, and those are always cool. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazines-with-heft/790102/17 "2017-07-10T13:05:51Z")
_[The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/)_