Criticism

Resources in this category:

Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org/the_magazine

A bimonthly alternative e-zine satirizing and subverting mainstream capitalist culture. Includes joke advertisements, subscription service, archived issues, and campaign statements advancing the anarchist cause.

Australian Humanities Review
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/

"Australian Humanities Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal founded by Cassandra Pybus. It is published quarterly with regular updates every two weeks. Edited by Elizabeth McMahon with assistance from an Editorial Board. AHR also receives funding from the Australia Council."

BluePrint
http://members.aol.com/bluemagzin/newblue.html

"Zeitschrift fuer Kultur und Wissenschaft. Journal of culture and science, published in German with short notes in English and French added to each article. Deals with special features of language, literature, natural science, and medicine, rarely found in other publications. Editor is always looking for reliable news and translating it from Chinese, English, French, and Spanish sources. "

Books and Culture: A Christian Review
http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/

"Books and Culture: A Christian Review will examine the diverse disciplines that affect us all-history, philosophy, theology, politics, sociology, science, psychology, and the arts. Leading Christian thinkers and writers will provide in-depth analysis from creative and informed minds that wrestle with the larger questions of culture and religion."

Brooklyn Metro Times
http://www.echonyc.com/~wham/bmt/

"A quarterly e-zine of radical politics and culture, focusing on Brooklyn, New York City, and the world."

Catalyst
http://www.catalystmagazine.org/

Bi-monthly magazine not afraid to tackle issues of race in modern society.

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal
http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/

"CLCWeb is a peer-refereed electronic journal, published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. It aims at publishing scholarship in Comparative Literature and Culture. CLCWeb's primary focus is the publication of work in the study of literature and culture where literature is understood as an artistic expression in an international/global and/or cross-disciplinary context; an activity, production, and reception that is connected to and dependent on other forms, situations, and activities of human expression."

Dissent
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/

Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and culture edited by Mitchell Cohen and Michael Walzer. Each issue features articles about politics in the U.S., social and cultural commentary, and coverage of European politics.

Exquisite Corpse
http://www.corpse.org/

Online version of the now-defunct print journal. Offers cultural commentary and fiction.

Flightless Humingbird
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rmutt/HomePage.html

'A Pseudo-Periodical of Art, Paranoia, Eschatology, & Fashion Tips."

FluxEuropa
http://www.fluxeuropa.com/

"FluxEuropa is a postmodern review of art, books, films, music, personae and miscellanea"

Globalización
http://www.rcci.net/globalizacion/

"Revista Mensual Web de Economia Sociedad y Cultura. Review on world economy, social mouvements and cultural criticism. Maintain links with other places oriented to the study of globalization. Virtual courses, bibliographies, film criticis."

Immediacy
http://www.nsu.newschool.edu/immediacy/

"Media studies journal from the New School for Social Research."

Irreverence Magazine
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/9095/index.html

"Irreverence is a magazine devoted to the problematization of accepted ideas through essay writing, fiction, poetry, and art. Following writers such as Michel Foucault, Irreverence seeks to induce skepticism. It aims to disturb the sediment of our culture so that we may construct a mythos "closer to the heart". It wills a release from the burden of history."

Jinn Magazine
http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn

"Jinn is Pacific News Service's biweekly online magazine, written by the most eccentric network of writers, scholars, reporters and teenagers contributing to the global media."

Journal of American Studies
http://www.journals.cup.org/jid_AMS

Registration required. Tables of contents and abstracts of articles may be accessed free of charge by all users.

Journal of World-Systems Research
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php

"The main editorial goal of the Journal of World-Systems Research is to develop and disseminate scholarly research on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems. We especially want to include works that proceed from severaldifferent theoretical stances and disciplines. These include, but are not limited to, civilizationists, evolutionary approaches, international political economy, comparative, historical and cultural analysis. We seek the work of political scientists, historians, sociologists, ethnographers, archaeologists, economists and geographers." There are links to Associates, Editorial Board and Staff;Editorial Policy ;Subscriptions and Operations;Information for Submitting Articles;and Information about Book Reviews

The Literary Review
http://webdelsol.com/tlr/

"The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing has been published quarterly by Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1957. Its many special issues have introduced new fiction, poetry, and essays from many nations, regions, or languages to English readers. Issues focus on such topics as contemporary Portuguese literature, Iranian exiles, the Jewish diaspora, North African authors, and Russian women writers. Works from issues devoted to writing in English have won awards and been reprinted in many collections."

Mediamatic Magazine
http://www.mediamatic.net/

"The accelerating convergence of modern media has created a maelstrom in which hype and relevance are difficult to distinguish. Located in the eye of this maelstrom, Mediamatic's strong philosophical and historical roots allow it to offer you a perspective on and participation in this digital 'third culture', where art and technology merge. Established in 1985 as a meeting place for video artists and TV dissidents, Mediamatic Magazine has evolved into today's sophisticated and beautiful quarterly on art and media and the changes being wrought by techno-culture, hypermedia and virtuality. Mediamatic focuses on understanding what's going on with our culture rather than boring you with the latest corporate mergers or technological breakthroughs. It is a magazine for literate people."

The Midwest Music Review
http://members.aol.com/midwestmus

"Up to 50 CD music reviews a month. Including Rock,Jazz, Blues,Bluegrass, R&B, etc. Plus software and hardware."

Mindjack Magazine
http://www.mindjack.com/

"An online magazine about technology, culture and technosocial issues with a bit of a technorealist and critical bent."

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/index.php?option=com_frontp...

"Miscelanea is an annual journal published by the Department of English and German Philology, University of Zaragoza, Spain. It accepts academic articles and reviews on English and American studies (literature, language and linguistics, cultural studies, film studies...). Available in print and online versions. Recent issues up are available free of charge through Internet. Full-text files are available in .zp ('zipped') format."

Modernity: Critiques of Visual Culture
http://www.eiu.edu/~modernity/modernity.html

"Modernity attempts to serve as a forum for debates and dialogues that grapple with the competing interpretative strategies in play in current scholarship. In order to create continuity between consecutive issues, essays or letters which interrogate previously published material are always welcome. Published semiannually [Fall & Spring], Modernity offers the opportunity for thoughtful consideration and contestation of a community of voices."

Modest Proposals
http://www.modestproposals.com/

"Aims to encourage new and deeper thinking on the pressing cultural issues of the day: TV shows, advertisements, music, celebrities and consumer products."

The New Statesman
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/

The British magazine of political and social commentary.

NewFolk: New Directions in Folklore
http://www.temple.edu/isllc/newfolk/journal.html

NewFolk part of the New Directions in Folklore website. Articles are abstracted and contail fulline texts and deal with the cutting edge areas of the discipline such as post-modernism, popular culture, and reflexivity.

The North American Review
http://webdelsol.com/NorthAmReview/NAR/

"The North American Review was founded in Boston in 1815, moved to New York City in the late 1870s, and was a victim of the onset of WWII, suspending publication in 1940. Its revival was engineered by Robert Dana, at Cornell (Iowa) College, in 1964, with the consent and blessing of the last survivors of the North American Review Corporation. The present-day NAR, which moved to the University of Northern Iowa in December of 1968, is the legal and historical continuation of the pre-war magazine; we date our anniversaries from 1815, and number our volumes from that date (the 1997 volume is number 282). Originally, the magazine carried a strong British flavor, as if thereby to elevate the tastes and cultural consciousness of Americans. As the nineteenth century wore on, the NAR's contents became less and less Brit in tone. Its contributors included Walt Whitman, Henry James, and Andrew Carnegie, it even serialized Joseph Conrad, and the magazine's focus broadened to include current affairs and politics as well as literature. Since the 1960s the NAR has concerned itself with the poem and the short story, and takes a broad view of current North American preoccupations - especially the problems of the environment."

Not Bored
http://www.notbored.org/

"Situationist inspired, irregularly published, totally autonomous journal of amateur radical socio-cultural critique published since 1983."

OOBR - The Off-Off-Broadway Review
http://www.oobr.com

OOBR lists off-off Broadway shows and reviews them exclusively online.

OOBR - The Off-Off-Broadway Review
http://www.oobr.com

OOBR lists off-off Broadway shows and reviews them exclusively online.

The Other Voice
http://www.trincoll.edu/zines/othervoi/

"This is the electronic version of a hardcover magazine distributed at Trinity College and Wesleyan University. This zine deals with politics, polemics, humor, and culture. Blending elitist linguistic masterbation with grassroots activism, The Other Voice."

Other Voices: The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~ov/

"An electronic journal of cultural criticism from the University of Pennsylvania, regularly publishes provocative essays, interviews, lecture transcriptions, hypermedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities; covering philosophy, literature, visual art, music, and theory in a variety of traditional and non-traditional forms."

The Paris Voice
http://www.parisvoice.com/

The site claims to be "the magazine for English-speaking Parisians." It presents a blend of news and cosmopolitan culture and commentary, and offers archiving, site searching, and email feedback to its users.

Pop and Politics
http://www.popandpolitics.com/

E-zine with articles and essays by journalist Farai Chideya. Explores everything from pop music to politics, and hip hop to race relations.

PopMatters
http://popmatters.com/

PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism. Our scope is broad and covers most cultural products, including music, television, films, books, video games, computer software, theatre, the visual arts, and the Internet. Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Our goal is to reach the broadest possible audience with intelligent and thought-provoking writing that is often not readily available within the mainstream mass media.

PopPolitics
http://www.poppolitics.com/

PopPolitics is an online magazine that blends popular and political cultures and covers the connections between them. It offers political news coverage coupled with historical analysis, cultural commentary and personal essays that relate the news to everyday life." Every six weeks, their Culture Clash section addresses a new issue from a variety of perspectives. "The idea is to investigate both the popular culture and the political angles, and to discuss the effect that each has on the issue."

The Prose Poem
http://webdelsol.com/tpp/

"The Prose Poem: An International Journal is published annually by Providence College. It is the only international journal dedicated to the publishing of prose poetry, essays on prose poetry, and reviews of recently published books on prose poems. Each volume also includes a constantly expanding bibliography on the prose poem."

Psyart
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/

"Psyart is a peer-reviewed, archived journal focused on psychological studies of the arts: literature, film, visual arts, or music."

SALON
http://www.salon.com/

"SALON is an interactive magazine of books, arts and ideas. Inside SALON you'll find not only authors, artists and thinkers, but a kinetic community of readers and kindred spirits eager to thrash out cultural issues."

Sandpaper
http://sandpaper.tripod.com

"Through the sands of time, people have come together to effect positive changes in their lives. The SandPaper is a vehicle for just such personal and social change. In its pages are reflected the values of cooperation, collectivity, solidarity, mutual aid, direct action, consensus, and individual freedom leading to community building and real, caring non-hierarchical relationships among people. The people we interview, the articles, essays, poetry, short stories, and artwork we present are meant to express those values of revolution which transcend the spirit-less capitalist culture that we all find ourselves enmeshed in. In the spirit of revolution, resistance, and regeneration!"

Sandpaper
http://sandpaper.tripod.com

"Through the sands of time, people have come together to effect positive changes in their lives. The SandPaper is a vehicle for just such personal and social change. In its pages are reflected the values of cooperation, collectivity, solidarity, mutual aid, direct action, consensus, and individual freedom leading to community building and real, caring non-hierarchical relationships among people. The people we interview, the articles, essays, poetry, short stories, and artwork we present are meant to express those values of revolution which transcend the spirit-less capitalist culture that we all find ourselves enmeshed in. In the spirit of revolution, resistance, and regeneration!"

Skeptic Magazine
http://www.skeptic.com/index.html

"SKEPTIC magazine is the quarterly magazine of science and pseudoscience, published by the Skeptics Society. It is devoted to investigating controveries of all kinds, including acupuncture, therapeutic touch, and other medical claims, cults and militias, conspiracy theories and fringe political ideologies, pseudoscience and pseudohistory, evolutionary ethics and evolutionary psychology, religion and myths, race and IQ, evolution and creationism, cryonics and life extension, near-death experiences and theories of immortality, and much more. Includes in-depth research articles, essays and commentary, book reviews, and reader's forum. Issues back to Volume 1, No., 1, 1992 linked online."

Stay Free!
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/

"Stay Free! is a print magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture."

The Teen Beat
http://www.teenbeat.net/

"BookShop: Watch out for a compiled list of books and reveiws for you to browse through; Point - Counterpoint : Look for debates on different topics between our staff and make comments; Editor's Note: A letter from the editor ranging from controversial topics to technology; Just Ask: Advice column from our in house writers written on topics submitted by the readers; Roll Call: Your opinion on weekly topics; Talk Back: Your comments and suggestions posted weekly."

Tikkun Magazine
http://www.tikkun.org/

Tikkun offers online articles and book reviews, as well as discussion of world events from a Jewish perspective.

Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Online Studies Journal
http://www.toutfait.com/

A free, non-profit journal of of criticism, response, and news pertaining to the artist Marcel Duchamp.

Workplace
http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/

"Workplace is a peer-reviewed electronic journal addressing the political, historical, and aesthetic conditions of academic labor in North America brought to you by the Graduate Student Caucus, an allied organization of the Modern Language Association."

Workplace
http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/

"Workplace is a peer-reviewed electronic journal addressing the political, historical, and aesthetic conditions of academic labor in North America brought to you by the Graduate Student Caucus, an allied organization of the Modern Language Association."

Z Magazine
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

A monthly political print magazine, with searchable access to archived issues after 3-4 months. The magazine publishes articles on "critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States."