Remember when magazines were printed on paper, and delivered by the post office every week or every month? If you were like me, you read some of them right away (New York Magazine, Seventeen, Mad), and others, like The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly and cooking magazines, piled up for a month or more until I had time to settle in with them. These days we still get The New Yorker in print every week, because my husband Ted makes art out of the covers, but I read the magazine with my digital subscription. Same with The Atlantic. And both of those digital subscriptions come with benefits -- special interest newsletters, at no additional charge, so I'm sure to see content that most interests me.
Every Thursday, Arthur C. Brooks sets his sights, and his mighty pen, on making us happy. Not in a haha entertaining way, but in a way that helps us think our way to the life we want. He tackles the big questions of meaning and happiness in his column, How to Build a Life, in The Atlantic. Recent columns discussed how to have your most fulfilling vacation ever, the happy art of grandparenting, the narrow-but-easy path to happiness, and the happiest way to change jobs. You'll need to sign up for a digital subscription ($79.99) to The Atlantic to get this newsletter delivered to your mailbox every week, but that digital subscription will get you more than just How to Build a Life, which you can order in newsletter format. Of course you'll be able to access every article in the magazine. You can also subscribe to their other wonderful newsletters, like The Weekly Planet (climate) and The Books Briefing (new and interesting books), plus daily or weekly news updates.
A digital subscription to The New Yorker drops a newsletter called The Food Scene in my inbox every week, along with The Borowitz Report and a weekly news and politics review, plus access to all the content of the magazine, and daily crosswords during the week. Digital-only subscription: $59.99 for the first year. Worth every penny.