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GQ is a publication that merits the adjective ‘legendary’. As a frontrunner in its genre, it takes potshots from many angles but – one thinks of Mercedes-Benz or Oxford University – keeps on doing well what it does well. (This reviewer drives a Ford and attended Cambridge, so I’m trying to be generous here …)

GQ is actually several magazines bound into one.

First, it is a high-end fashion catalogue. Unless you work your way through a lot of advertising pages to the material that follows, you may think you’ve picked up a catalogue rather than a ‘quarterly’.

Second, GQ consistently presents excellent short and medium-length fiction and non-fiction writing. If the juxtaposition of preening male style with superb writing surprises you, well, welcome to the club. They’re both undeniably here between the same covers.

Finally, GQ offers great tips on style in a whimsical, always interesting way. Simply put, you can get edumacated on style by working through this third magazine bound into the GQ format.

As an avid reader and founder of an executive coaching company that includes guidance on how to look the part without spending the kind of money that shows up in ‘Magazine A”, I read Magazines B and C with gusto.

GQ is not everything. You may want to evade the whiff of pretension that comes from being seen with GQ tucked under your arm. But if Magazine A, B, or C is what you’re seeking, you may want to subscribe to this venerable legend.