Z Magazine, 18 Millfield Street, Woods Hole MA 02543, Tel: 508-548-9063,
Fax: 508-457-0626. Subs: $30/year (11 issues).
Z Magazine is an intensely serious monthly journal of the post-Marxist
U.S. left. Put out by a tiny staff of Boston-based activists, and with a
circulation of 26,000, Z delivers a daunting amount of text for each
subscription dollar. In each issue, long theoretical and cultural articles
share space with more traditional political and investigative reporting.
Instead of ads, Z runs its own satiric cartoons, plus notices of demonstra-
tions and political events. Each issue, in its defiant anti-commercialism,
thus implies a rebuke to this country's advertising-driven mainstream press
-- and still more to the subliterate personality journalism pioneered here
by USA Today and People Magazine. Virtually every issue of Z also contains
investigative articles of the kind that end up in NameBase: e.g., Sara
Diamond on the U.S. right, or Holly Sklar on U.S. dollar intervention in
Nicaragua.
But be advised: the rather hardcore idiom Z usually employs will
probably go down easiest with U.S. readers who got radicalized in the 60s,
kept up with subsequent developments on the left, and never bought back
in. Even sympathetic readers with different life histories may feel left
out of Z's loop.
-- Steve Badrich
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