Research Guides: Course Guide for ENG101-7: Writing in the City: Finding Current Magazines and Periodicals

Accessing and Evaluating Magazines and Periodials

Emory Libraries gives you access to a large number of magazines and periodicals that you would otherwise find behind a paywall. This includes popular titles like The New Yorker or The Paris Review, but you can also find current newspapers and newspaper archives from across the world. Emory Libraries also offers all Emory faculty, students, and staff a membership to the New York Times.

Below are links to popular magazines and periodicals, but you can search all of Emory's current periodicals holdings in eJournals A–Z.

When using periodicals and magazines as sources in an essay, you might consider the following questions as you begin your research. These are questions to ask not only when evaluating the credibility of a source, but also to evaluate whether or not the source will be useful to your research.

Who is the author or authors?
What authority do they have to be writing about that topic?
Does the author reference or cite other articles or sources?
In what ways does the author contribute to the conversation about that topic?
When was the article written?

Useful Links:

eJournals A-Z
Browse by eJournal Title
New York Times @ Emory
Emory students, faculty, and staff will have continuous access to the digital version of The New York Times and its online content, including archives and blogs.

Hosted By Emory

The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
The London Review of Books
The London Review of Books is a literary paper that publishes book reviews, literary essays, and literary criticism written by "the leading writers, critics and thinkers."
N+1
n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics published three times a year. We also post new online-only work several times each week and publish books expanding on the interests of the magazine.
The New Yorker
Reporting, Profiles, breaking news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons from The New Yorker.
The Paris Review
The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.
VQR / The Virginia Quarterly Review
From its inception in prohibition, through depression and war, in prosperity and peace, the Virginia Quarterly Review has been a haven—and home—for the best essayists, fiction writers, and poets, seeking contributors from every section of the United States and abroad. It has not limited itself to any special field. No topic has been alien: literary, public affairs, the arts, history, the economy.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post, also known as the Post and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and has a national audience.

Not Hosted by Emory

Guernica
Founded online in 2004, Guernica is an award-winning 501(c)3 non-profit magazine focused on the intersection of arts and politics. Run entirely by a staff of volunteers, Guernica is also the grateful recipient of federal and private support. A home for incisive ideas and necessary questions, we publish memoir, reporting, interviews, commentary, poetry, fiction, and multimedia journalism exploring identity, conflict, culture, justice, science, and beyond.
LitHub
Literary Hub is an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life.