You’re perfectly willing to let that stack of New Yorkers pile up next to your couch until you finally just recycle them unread. FOUR BEAUTIFUL, COLLECTIBLE ISSUES of Root Quarterly each year, filled with art, expansive ideas, books, criticism, and more art delivered to your doorstep feels too manageable. Plus your home is frankly beautiful enough already without an award-winning magazine lying around on the coffee table impressing your friends.
“AN AMBITIOUS, METICULOUSLY DESIGNED PUBLICATION.”
— THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
You’d MUCH rather subscribe to 40 individual creators on Substack clogging up your emails instead of having A CRACK CREATIVE TEAM design best-of content with gorgeous art that makes you think, makes you smile, and gives you hope for A MORE BEAUTIFUL FUTURE.
“A HIGH-PRODUCTION ARTS & CULTURE AFFAIR.”
— WHYY
You’re fine with another decade of consuming highly politicized and needlessly partisan stories that purposefully drive people apart. You’re not interested in VIEW POINT DIVERSITY, GOOD FAITH DIALOGUE, CURIOSITY, or COMMON GROUND.
“A HOMERUN.”
— Meghan Daum, THE UNSPEAKABLE PODCAST
You’d rather not be part of one of the country’s most interesting conversations. Endless Tik Tok videos are way better than A QUARTERLY DOSE OF ESSAYS, CRITICISM, ART, POETRY, REVIEWS AND REPORTING on important issues from independent, community journalists and national thought leaders.
“A JOY to leaf through—and read. It is heavily illustrated, with a mix of photographs, drawings, and comic panels, and it makes creative use of typography. The content includes an eclectic mix of essays, fiction, interviews, reviews, and recipes, making for a strong new title.”
— LIBRARY JOURNAL
You don’t remember what it was like to get your new magazine in the mail and open it up to breathe in the ink on the pages. PRINT ISN’T DEAD—it just smells funny to anyone who’d rather be manipulated by black-box algorithms than support INDEPENDENT REGENERATIVE MEDIA THAT CELEBRATES OUR COMMON HUMANITY.
