You can purchase magazines at newsstands and magazine stores (which have the best selection of specialty magazines) or in variety stores, convenience stores and supermarkets (for the most widely read magazines). Americans often subscribe to magazines, which means that the magazine will be sent to their home, often at a considerable discount over the newsstand price . Nearly all libraries have a periodicals section where you can read the newest issues of magazines and have access to back issues often many years worth in microfilm or bound volumes for research purposes.

Here's Your Magazine Homework. A few useful magazines for understanding American life would be People, Money (about a subject dear to American hearts), one of the news-magazines, a journal of opinion like Harpers, National Review or the New Republic, a fashion-oriented woman's magazine like Cosmopolitan or Vogue plus a family-oriented one like Family Circle, one of the business magazines, and perhaps a few of the specialty magazines, like high-tech Wired or Fast Company.

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