Graduation? Summer? A little time to read something substantial?

Summer comes around, and many places come out with lists of "Summer Reading",  easy stuff to read at the beach.  Or you can be like me and some friends of mine, summer is when you have time to sink your teeth into something more demanding.  I rather like Latin or Greek authors for the summer or geology  (don't tell!  but sometimes I have a little trouble keeping up with magazines that zip by ephemerally and not on a geologic time scale.)

So here are a few recent arrivals in the literary / ideas section.  Granta does the "F" word*, Prairie Schooner, A Public Space, Chicago Review, Raritan (Conservatism and Counterrevolution, I F Stone an Enemy of the State), and then the standby, McSweeney's Believer.  Paris Review should be in very soon.

 

* the "F" word, F is for feminism.

March Literature and Culture updates

Boston Review's March issue, Arizona Failed State.  Will it be as good as the January article on Amazon's market share and publishers?


More optimistically titled is Small Changes Big Results for the World's Poor.

 

Paris Review, that classic literary journal, always in demand.  Cheerful spring colors, Ann Beattie and Janet Malcolm.

 And a satisfyingly thick spring issue of Granta does ALIENS

January Literary Section and Friends, some old some new

We still have copies of And Memoir.  Bookmarks, Poets & Writers, Granta, African Voices, The Baffler, and Zoetrope Allstory are magazines you may have browsed or bought before.  We have a new issue of Creative Nonfiction,  and Boston Review has a new look.

So many of the new magazines come in and are a puzzle,  is it fashion?  Photography?  Pop culture?  Own is definitely men's fashion, Image is definitely photography (I am a sucker for those small format magazines), Vizor ended up in photography (although mostly pictures of women in clothes, it seemed more about the visuals than about clothes (but one could argue that about a significant amount of fashion photography)), Twin which seems a little more about the clothes is waiting hopefully for you with the other new arrivals at the front counter, and the Filament... is a little edgy and is in the catch all section of Pop Culture, somewhere near Gothic Beauty.