In this issue
Archives
Issue #24 August 29, 2013 Aug 29, 2013 Aug 29
Issue #9 January 31, 2013 Jan 31, 2013 Jan 31
Issue #1 October 11, 2012 Oct 11, 2012 Oct 11
 
 
 
From Issue #36 February 13, 2014

Editor’s Note

See the shark, how red his teeth are.

By The Editor Twitter icon 

Get a weekly email summary of our new articles and issues: sign up for our list.

We’re taking pre-orders for our first-year collection.

The cover of issue 36

Courtesy of St. George’s School

In this issue

A key part of being a doctor is listening to one’s patients. And while doctors are ostensibly taught this over and over again, our resident pediatrician, Saul Hymes, went a step further in his training. In Script Doctor, Saul tells the story of narrative medicine’s impact on the relationship between a patient and a physician. (We explain the evolution of the illustration for this essay in Doctor, It Hurts When I Tell a Story! at Medium.)

Julia Shipley spent a little time with several hundred sharks 25 years ago during a summer on a boat catching, tagging, and releasing them. She wondered about the Long Tail of her particular predators, and, with the help of an archivist, learned where their journey took them — and her.

Only connect!” should be the motto of Brian Corbin, the main mover in Connect the Dots, a look by Julie Schwietert Collazo into how rural areas can use as leverage the untapped cleverness of residents and ratio of cost of living to quality of life. Corbin suggests creating hubs and spokes instead of remaining isolated islands.

Matthew Amster-Burton went to Japan a few months ago to further his research into its culture of food. But he was laid low with Ramen Fever. He turned to relative strangers for help, people he had met through a blog, and they became nearly a second family. He still wonders if they ever existed.

Photos can be more than skin deep. The tintype, a form of wet-plate collodion photography, seems to capture images of people that reveal inner beauty and some inner terrors. Writer April Kilcrease considers the tintype The Slow Selfie, and ponders what the revival of this very old form of photography told her about herself.

Read at Medium

You can read more reporting and essays edited and published by The Magazine at our collection on Medium, a site that is a combination of publishing platform and editorial operation.

Here are a few of the articles we’ve recently published at Medium:

Fertile Ground for Apps: Natali Morris turns to her smartphone for contraception to avoid the pill, IUDs, and other options — and their unpleasant side effects.

Winding Down: A clockmaker counts his remaining ticks and tocks, writes Tom Bentley.

Hello Kitty: Cat cafes provide comfort, Carren Jao finds — that is, if you take the cat’s fancy.

Heart Shut Tight: Marian Call and The Magazine’s Kellie M. Walsh go on a songwriting tangent and discover love.

Posh Privies: Carren Jao enjoys the luxury of the typical Japanese toilet alongside the severe simplicity of a pit.

Game of Clones: Chris Higgins looks into how the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is fixing link rot.

On the Matter of Why Bitcoin Matters: Marc Andreessen was a big part of turning the Web into a mainstream experience, but seems to misunderstand Bitcoin profoundly, writes Glenn Fleishman.

We commission original articles that are published first at Medium, as well as reprint some work from our issue archives. We’re experimenting with Medium’s medium, and some stories have a very different tenor than what we present in issue format.

You can receive updates about new stories we publish in our section of Medium by logging in to that site via Twitter and clicking Follow on our home page. Or, subscribe via RSS.

Letters

You can tap the Share button in iOS at the top of any article and then tap Write Letter to Editor. Or email us with your thoughts, noting any article to which they apply. We also read comments and questions on Facebook, Twitter, and App.net. (Although we see iTunes reviews, we cannot respond there; please contact us directly with any issues that need a response.)

The Magazine is produced by a small but dedicated editorial staff.

You can purchase our complete archives, almost 300 articles, as a DRM-free ebook in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats. We ceased publication of new work on December 18, 2014.
You can purchase our complete archives, almost 300 articles, as a DRM-free ebook in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats.
©2021 Aperiodical LLC. The Magazine's online ISSN: 2334-4970. We ceased publication on December 18, 2014. You can purchase our complete archives, almost 300 articles, as a DRM-free ebook in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats. Read our privacy policy. Learn more about us. Billing troubles? Email us. Talk with us on Facebook and Twitter. Consult our FAQ for more answers. iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.