The queens (and kings) of personality magazines all have different takes on getting into the fall spirit. Choosing among them may say a lot about your priorities.
EveryDay with Rachael Ray
EveryDay with Rachael Ray is mostly about having fun — no matter the health consequences. While Ray tells us how to make roasted kale bundles, she also serves up this insanely sugary breakfast recipe: a morning glory shake that requires two scoops of vanilla ice cream and Apple Jacks cereal (not exactly pediatrician-approved). Want some tailgating ideas (bacon-wrapped corn on the cob) or tips on preparing an Oktoberfest in your backyard (a pretzel-making recipe)? Her quick and convenient approach to food, such as her 30-minute meals for fall, seems to be a lot like her magazine — busy and best not taken too seriously.Tips for Halloween include black spray paint on jack-o-lanterns.
Living With Martha Stewart
Living With Martha Stewart is about how to live the good life even on a limited budget. Her breakfast shake: an oat-coconut smoothie recipe (no Apple Jacks here). There are lots of tips here. She tells how to keep your clothes clean without going to the dry cleaners. Savor the savings, she suggests in a section explaining that for the price of a large pizza we can make a satisfying dinner for four. The secret, she says, is to rely on more affordable proteins like chicken legs, ground chuck and canned beans. In the Halloween department she suggests putting a lace stocking over a pumpkin and using spray paint for a rather artsy effect.
Dr. Oz's The Good Life
Dr. Oz's The Good Life, meanwhile, is about becoming healthier. The advice runs the gamut from how to avoid wrinkles to far more serious serious topics. Dr. Oz, who has become controversial for taking strong stands that are in contrast to conventional medical wisdom, does not shy away here. He says you do need to shampoo your hair every day. Once a week is fine. He loves green tea but not green ice cream. Tofu is good for you, but try to avoid soy chicken nuggets. More importantly, he says women should check to see if they have dense breasts as they are four to six times more likely to develop breast cancer. The Good Life provides easy-to-read features, including advice on stopping headaches, and pictorials, such as a 10-step workout.
The Oprah Magazine
The Oprah Magazine is the all-star edition of personality mags. She has guest columns from Dr. Phil, Suze Orman and even Dr. Oz. Dr. Sanjay Gupta says to keep his brain sharp he drinks a glass of water as soon as he wakes up. In her usual feel-good vein, O tells us that despite our quirks we are special. Yes, 26 percent of us avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks so if we do so it is not that unusual. Nor is talking to ourselves. We liked the questionnaire in which we are asked to think about what motivates us. Oprah also tackles breast cancer but more with personal stories than with her own advice. The magazine has many more features than its peers, including a question-and-answer segment with "Alchemist" author Paulo Coelho.
The New Yorker
The New Yorker's style issue has a curiously lengthy and puffy piece on GoPro, grandly heralding the maker of wearable cameras as a cultural icon of the 21st Century while giving curiously little attention to the risk that copycats could consign it to history before too long. Better is a piece about the feminist origins of Wonder Woman, who was created in 1941 by a Harvard psychologist who was profoundly influenced by suffragists and birth-control advocates. "Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world," Dr. William Moulton Marston declared. He died in 1947, at which point a new writer took over and transformed Wonder Woman into a "baby-sitter, a fashion model and a movie star," Jill Lepore reports with understandable crankiness.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic's cover story on increasing life expectancy poses many convincing points of worry, mainly about federal entitlements, only to cop out with a gauzy conclusion about older people being less demanding and more responsible, an idea which of course is as incoherent as a senile pensioner. It doesn't help that, on the next page, we get oncologist Ezekiel Emanuel explaining why he wants to die at age 75, much to the chagrin of his family. Indeed, a tinge of the nonsensical frequently infects the pages of this magazine, though you might also call it determined naivete. Witness the garden variety knee-jerking from an article explaining "How creationism has become a way to oppose gay marriage," as if opposition to gay marriage were some kind of new phenomenon among creationists.
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