To which magazines/journals/newspapers/other periodicals do you subscribe?

New Yorker
NY Review of Books*
New Republic

*This one I'd especially recommend to anyone who likes books.

The Atlantic Monthly!

Also:
Foreign Policy
Seed
Bust
Texas Monthly
Everyday Food (surprisingly helpful and useful Martha Stewart magazine)
Bridge
Readerville (currently on hiatus)

(This is making me want to do a magazine run.)

I skim the following because a friend subscribes:
Rolling Stone
Entertainment Weekly

**If you like books**, check out the following:
Bookmarks Magazine

I get The Atlantic free every month because I work there. We get Harper's too but I find a lot of it's commentary really predictable.

Well, I keep getting it for: the listings section (which makes me feel like a with-it NYer, even if I never make it to anything), the occasional good longish reporter-at-large article (you know the trademark NYer type deal where they set someone loose for 20-odd pages on a topic of current interest), the Murakami stories, the Updike book reviews, the occasional good Louis Menand review, and the cartoons.

Newsweek
Vanity Fair
Jane (although my wife will prob. not renew)
Tape Op

Read regularly:

Mojo
The Source
XXl
Rolling Stone
Spin

when the atlantic shows up, I tend to put aside whatever else I'm reading at the moment and devour it. when granta shows up, I put it on my desk and pop one story/article at a time over a few months.

I usually read 75% of the atlantic (everything before the reviews start) and 95% of granta (rarely don't read something).

New subscriptions: Bust, the Believer.

Anyone interested in writing should have a peek at Mslexia. They do the kind of nuts and bolts stuff that other magazines turn into books and sell you on top of the subscription.

Thoughts on the New Yorker: I almost never read the fiction. For no particularly good reason I decided that I dislike the new fiction editor, whatever her name is. I like the long articles, the Talk of the Town, and the book and movie reviews. Shouts and Murmurs is almost always horrible and I wish they would just get rid of it already. I adore the Booth and Roz Chast cartoons.

Thoughts on the Believer: I gave the first two issues a chance and now don't even glance at the issues the husband brings home.

Thoughts on The Atlantic Monthly: It appears I must start reading this.

Recently let subscription to the Nation lapse when I realized they were just gathering dust; let sub to Saveur go when I realized I don't cook.

On-line, tho, I'm a regular at the Complete Review, Bookslut, Arts Journal . . .

For my little fiction project, I kept a log and recorded quick takes on every story. (Yes, I'm crazy. But what are you bloggers looking at me like that for?) It's been interesting to see which stories I love vs. which stories get picked by Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize. Generally, I concluded that stories by authors I'd never heard of were more likely to be worth reading. I got sick of seeing some names appear over and over: Boyle, Proulx, Munro (and those are some of the more tolerable examples). [When I get home I'll try to remember to post a new thread listing my favorites of the last couple years.]

Anyway, I'm burning out on the project (I'd only originally planned to do it for a year), so I'll probably quit soon and just read what grabs me, hoping I won't miss the gems

The Economist (half-year sub because it's so expensive)
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy (which is better?)
Poets and Writers (is this worth it? I am serious about writing, but I don't want to subscribe if it's just going to be a badge of pretentiousness that sits around the house)
World Press Review (is this any good? And what's their bias?)

Also, of the big literary journals (Granta, Paris Review, Ploughshares, etc.), which do y'all think is best (measured in terms of "good stories you wouldn't otherwise have run across")?

About magazines generally: I've always preferred Harpers overall to the Atlantic, New Republic and New Yorker. It's a question of tepid centrism vs. occasionally-not-tepid dissent. Also, Harpers is funnier. But I love TNR's book reviews (especially now that Guy Davenport isn't doing books for Harpers anymore--damn). And Atlantic does do a good job of exhuming forgotten writers--I'd never have heard of, say, John Cowper Powys without them. NY does something great every now and then that makes me wish I'd pay closer attention to them (Adam Gopnik on Bill Evans a few years ago), then nothing.

I like the Believer, especially after Tom Bissell's John Gardner-boosterism in the current issue, but can't imagine subscribing. They do need to overcome the cutesiness and clique-iness. The hatred they've generated, though, seems churlish to me. Even that infamous "snark" piece wasn't that awful--her point (that a shallow, knowing, can't-impress-me stance leads to bad criticism) was fine, it's just that her examples (James Wood?!) were nonsense.

As to the question about the New Yorker: I honestly think that under David Remnick it has become a great magazine again. There's a new, young fiction editor who's allowed some really interesting stuff in alongside the old faithfuls, and the news reporting at its best is pretty much unbeatable (e.g. the piece two weeks ago by a guy who spent a few months in Saudi Arabia -- explained way more about the actual life and culture of the country that produced al qaeda than almost anything else I've read, even though that wasn't his explicit intent). If I were only going to subscribe to one magazine, it would be the New Yorker.

I've bought three issues of The Believer so far and have liked them all well enough to justify the purchase (though not all $8 of it!). I have a weakness for intellectual treatments of pop culture, especially if they aren't "academic." Hermenaut used to do this; I'm glad The Believer has picked up the slack. (This month's issue has an interesting piece on the relationship between Smallville and 19th C. utopian Christian socialism.)

I'll also occasionally read Harper's and The Atlantic when I'm visiting my parents. There are occasionally great articles in both, but the amount of time I spend with each issue (i.e., not all that much) doesn't justify subscribing.

I recently let my subscription to the Utne Reader (which was a gift, anyway) lapse. After the sixth cover in a row about the importance of "community" and/or how to overcome stress, I had about enough. I also stopped subscribing to Magnet -- but only until they have a better selection of CDs as subscription gifts. (I basically look at that magazine, which can be unbearably indie-rock, as a CD, with six free issues.)

In my opinion not worth it. Most of what is useful about it is available freely online, and their articles on craft, marketing, and publishing are not likely to help anyone but beginning or insecure writers.

Hey Scott, doesn't New England Mobile Book Fair rock? :)

i used to have the time for harper's and the money for japanese vogue, and was unselfconscious enough for wallpaper.

lately i've been intrigued by a french mag called WAD and a new art mag called "influence"