Periodical Recommendations

June 20, 2015 4:56 PM

Looking for periodical/magazine recommendations featuring medium- to long-form articles similar in style (if not tone) to the London Review of Books.

I'm interested in reading material for my daily bus commute. I currently quite enjoy the London Review of Books, but I typically finish it well before the next issue comes. Something similar, with or without the "book review" format, would be nice. A focus on the US is a plus, but not essential. Left-leaning is preferred, but also not essential. I find the articles I've read in the New York Review of Books either too conservative or too pretentious, but I'm willing to be convinced I'm wrong.

I'm also open to suggestions outside of the politics/culture bent of LRB. I like design and general science.

I'm considering, based on past AskMe answers, The Believer, Christian Science Monitor, Lapham's Quarterly, Harper's, and Le Monde Diplomatique.

posted by MetalFingerz to Society & Culture (5 answers total)

The Believer has many book reviews and is the best.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 5:08 PM on June 20, 2015

Best answer: Guernica? The New Inquiry? The Paris Review?
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:11 PM on June 20, 2015

If you love the LRB, I think you will find The Believer to be too twee and not suitably politically or intellectually complex. I would recommend N+1, though it can be hit or miss and isn't published often enough for you. Harper's is closer to what you want than The Believer but probably still not quite what you want. Jacobin?
posted by raisindebt at 5:15 PM on June 20, 2015

I'm addicted to longform. It's a curated collection of long articles - you can sort by category. Some of the old links are dead (I'm working backwards from page 546), but I can always find tons of interesting articles there.
posted by bendy at 8:26 PM on June 20, 2015

Not curated, but still: I find many, many articles of interest on MetaFilter.
posted by LonnieK at 4:19 PM on June 22, 2015