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As our 33rd annual Hot List illustrates, emotional, tactile magazines can still capture the imagination

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I recently had the unenviable task of purging the house that I grew up in in suburban New Jersey—certainly a messy physical and emotional task in which tough calls had to be made about jettisoning items that had surrounded me my entire life.

Among the things that got the heave-ho were stacks of old issues of Time and National Geographic—the family’s two magazine staples. These were surprisingly hard to part with. In many ways, before cable news and the Web, they were my primers for understanding the world through great reporting and photography.

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