Lapham's Quarterly

Former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham started his magazine in 2007, a year after leaving Harper's, with a focus on "people who wish they had paid more attention in school," wrote Tim Arango in a December 1, 2009 New York Times story.

Lapham told Arango, "The idea was to bring the voices of the past up to the microphone of the present."

Each quarterly issue focuses on a single topic, such as money, nature, war or crime; the current issue is about medicine.

Circulation is 16,000 paid subscriptions and 9,000 sold in bookstores, pretty impressive considering it costs $60 a year.

Each of the seven individual back issues costs $26. 

I love the look of the magazine's website , clean and crisp and easy to look at it.

Bonus: a number of articles from each of the magazine's issues are available on the website, along with an abundance of graphics (exemplar up top) including charts, tables and maps related to various subjects explored in the articles and essays.

Free, the way we like it.