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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
***WHY SUBSCRIBE THROUGH AMAZON?***, February 18, 2004
By A Customer
I'm not sure why one would subscribe to Cabinet through amazon.com. An individual subscription ordered through the magazine itself is only $28, as opposed to amazon's $36.81 (you also can spare yourself the 12-14 week wait!).I think by visiting www.cabinetmagazine.org/subscribe/index.php, you could save yourself some time and money. The magazine itself smells great and the ink rarely (if ever!) is transferred to one's fingers during the reading experience. Keep it up, Cabinet!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Truly, truly excellent, March 26, 2003
I have been subscribing to Cabinet since its 3rd issue, and I will continue to subscribe until they stop publishing.Perhaps it is because the content is rather hard to define. Cabinet is a non-profit publication, dredging the vast resources of society, arts, culture, and academia for interesting articles. Each issue features a different theme (Childhood, Evil, and Travel being some examples), for which they comission a variety of authors to write on any and all aspects of the topic. Many of the articles have either an historic or artistic bent, and almost all are written in standard academic prose. However, each issue also includes a handful of interviews, photo essays, and quirky postcards. Additionally, there are a couple of repeating columns from issue to issue. My personal favorite is the "Colors" column, in which Cabinet commissions a different author each time to write about a color of the editors' choosing. The various interpretations run the spectrum - bice was a particularly amusing rumination on boogers, beige began with the line 'Beige is the color of evil,' and sulphur was a surreal paean to drug use. I would especially recommend this magazine to academics, sociologists, students fresh out of school languishing for mental stimulation, historians of science (lots of articles of this bent!), or visual artists. Aside from this group, however, I believe this magazine to be absoultely fascinating for anyone who enjoys being exposed to a variety of unusual, arcane, or stimulating mental topics pertaining to culture and society.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cabinet is a treat for eye and mind, March 17, 2004
The editor kindly sent me a copy of "Cabinet" in the mail, writing that "I might enjoy it." Well, I did enjoy it, from cover to cover. I am not typically a subscriber to literary mags, though I used to occasionally enjoy "Exquisite Corpse" and could be seen furtively leafing through "The Utne Reader" at the newstand from time to time. "Cabinet" is full of wonderful photography, interesting snippets about art and lots of articles that stimulate the mind. It's hard to classify this journal, which is supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation. But if you like art and literature, and are looking for new stuff, "Cabinet" is a pleasure. In the issue I read (Issue #12) I enjoyed the article about Presidential doodling (nothing new, this subject was covered in the 60's when I was in school) but the arrangement and comments about the doodles, from Hoover's to Geo. Bush, Sr. were interesting and amusing. Eisenhower's artistic rendering of a broken sword gets the predictable "thoughts of impotence" remark, and Johnson's scratchings are truly scary. The other article I liked specially was about the color of total eclipses. There's a lot in this quarterly issue (recipe for making a shrunken head of your late enemy??? Hmmm, not sure I will do this) and much more, politics, art, current events. VERY interesting stuff.
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