Reading Magazines Cover to Cover

Here’s our pick for 2009 Best Magazine Cover of the Year award

It’s time to judge a magazine by its cover. The Magazine Publishers of America has launched a 2009 Best Magazine Cover of the Year award. Hosted on Amazon, you have till 30 September to cast your vote. Here’s our pick:

Best Science, Technology & Nature Cover: New York’s feature on the benefits of distraction. After this, we just couldn’t focus elsewhere.

Sexiest Cover: The women didn’t stand a chance, with Australian Matthew Mitcham, Olympic gold medallist in diving, looking so tantalising in this issue of The Advocate.

Best Obama Cover: We’ve overdosed on Obama this year. Perhaps that’s why New Yorker’s non-Obama Obama cover wins.

Best News Cover: Madoff as the supervillain, the Joker, in New York. The irony of it is brilliant. There weren’t too many people left laughing after he’d finished with them.

Best Entertainment & Celebrity Cover: Esquire uses the power of celebrity to create a cover that readers can interact with like never before.

Best Fashion & Beauty Cover: She’s hot, and she looks jaded in this New York cover. Kate Moss, in a deliberately un-airbrushed photograph, looking shockingly real.

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Elizabeth Kuruvilla