18 April 2022
Magazines are many things. They are heralds and historians, communicating (and occasionally even foreshadowing) history as it is being made and, in the process, becoming a repository for it. They are educational enterprises, circulated in order to inform; fiscal enterprises, monetized for sustainability and for profit; and objets d'art, designed to be held and admired. They aspire to objectivity in their records, yet also deliver the subjective by way of criticism and columns of opinion. They are printed and bound in paper, a product of the cellulose fibers derived from dead plants, but issue by issue, they grow and mature, changing their positions and purposes. They have lifetimes, however metaphorical those may be.
