Marieke’s Favourite Mags are those you cannot board a long-haul flight without: Harper’s Monthly Magazine (published out of the US since 1850) brilliantly scrutinises current affairs and events; The New Yorker (published since 1925) is densely intelligent and wise; Vanity Fair for its irresistible chronicling of contemporary culture; The Monthly (published out of Melbourne by Morry Schwartz since 2005) is Australia’s only national magazine with an independent voice