Cabinet
cabinetmagazine.org
A quarterly magazine of art and culture that publishes unusual essays, interviews and curiosities, with a large part of its archive available online.
Why it is useful
Covers subjects that mainstream magazines overlook, from forgotten inventions to odd corners of history. The writing is distinctive and the archive is full of rabbit holes.
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