I just received the latest issue of SELF, and I'm looking forward to enjoying it from cover to cover! The section on how to save someone's life in an emergency, the delicious-looking recipes and the fashion suggestions I can actually afford are among the many standouts. It's the best issue I've gotten in a long time. Style and substance-that's why I subscribe! Keep up the good work. READ MORE

This is a very complicated defense of magazines by an Elle writer (who is also the wife of the editor of the Times' "Modern Love" column, which is about neither modernity nor love, DISCUSS). I have some thoughts about it, and about the idea of what people want versus what people say they want, but instead of relaying them I am going to focus my intentions on the financial health of the New Yorker now in a yoga class.

Reports intrepid Elle reader Emily Gould, whilst at the pedicurist: "The Reese Witherspoon profiler, as per Reese Witherspoon usual, had to try to make a story out of how Witherspoon has become an expert at being completely opaque to reporters. They met in a courtyard outside Reese's production company, Reese was late, there was some confusion about salads, one assistant ushered the reporter in and another told Reese when it was time to leave, and in the meantime they talked about absolutely nothing." And more.