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English-language magazines
- Time (magazine)On the 3rd of March 1923, a small office in New York City published its first issue. Briton Hadden and Henry Luce stood behind this new weekly news magazine…
- Kirkus ReviewsVirginia Kirkus left Harper & Brothers in 1932 after the company eliminated her children's book department. She launched an independent service that year to…
- Fortune (magazine)Henry Luce launched Fortune magazine in 1929, declaring it the Ideal Super-Class Magazine. The publication made its official debut in February 1930 during…
- Georgetown Journal of International AffairsThe Georgetown Journal of International Affairs began its life in the year 2000. It emerged from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
- Challenge (economics magazine)The year 1952 marked the birth of a new voice in economic thought. The Institute of Economic Affairs launched Challenge magazine from its base at New York…
- Smithsonian (magazine)Edward K. Thompson, the retired editor of Life magazine, received a request from S. Dillon Ripley in 1970 to create a new publication for the Smithsonian…
- The WeekJolyon Connell launched The Week in the United Kingdom during 1995. He arrived from the Sunday Telegraph with a clear vision for a new kind of news magazine.
- Physics TodayPhysics Today arrived on newsstands in May 1948 as a membership magazine for the American Institute of Physics. The first issue went directly to members of…
- These Football TimesThese Football Times emerged as an independent association football magazine and online publication. It chose to emphasize long-form journalism over quick…
- Philosophy NowRick Lewis launched Philosophy Now in May 1991 from his home town of Ipswich, England. The first issue appeared as a quarterly magazine and featured an…
- Monthly ReviewOn a New Hampshire farm in 1948, two former Harvard colleagues met to discuss the future of American socialism. F. O. Matthiessen offered Paul Sweezy $5,000…