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December 29, 2005 Review: Beyond Magazine 
Beyond was an impulse purchase--an attractive cover, an intriguing subtitle ("Possible Worlds"), and my favourite phrase: "100% ads free." What is Beyond? That's a good question. I'm still not entirely sure. But I like it. This issue (#14) was dedicated to hope, and such an ephemeral and lofty concept would normally doom an enterprise to failure, but instead it succeeds. An interview with Bruce Cockburn, reviews of The Impossible Will Take A Little While, short stories and sketches by prisoners of the San Quentin prison, attractive illustrations and photographs, well-written articles, an all-too-rare focus on social justice and ecological issues that manages to be neither preachy nor despairing--all presented in a high-quality magazine with no ads. Plus, it's Canadian--the magazine's headquarters are in Calgary. The natural consequence of an ads-free publication is a total dependence on subscriptions and readers, and so, having been easily converted, I'm passing the word along to you: Give it a try! Yes, it's $8.95 of your hard-earned money, but it won't leave you desperately needing a different kind of toothpaste than the one that has worked fabulously for you for two decades now, it won't convince you that you are a terrible mother who is ruining her children, it won't fill you with despair over our imminent demise as a species, and it will look marvelous poking out of your shoulder-bag. Posted by Andrea at December 29, 2005 1:57 PM under Books EMAIL this entry (comments fields are below this section) Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: |
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