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Zine of the Month! Hermenaut often makes fun of Sassy, so my knee-jerk reaction was to hate it. But it's funny and smart so I'll swallow my pride. Sassy (back when it was sassy)

Chicago has the Baffler, and New York has Feed and McSweeney's. But Boston has Hermenaut, a journal devoted to philosophy and pop culture that seeks to wrest intellectual life from the stranglehold of academia.—Boston Phoenix, "Best of Boston 2000"

I was about to pry open the latest issue of Vanity Fair when I found myself shredding it into little, teeny pieces. Fortunately an antidote to the source of my madness was close at hand: Hermenaut is well-written and intellectual without being condescending or obscure. Salon

A zine that gives voice to indie intellectual thought, Hermenaut is a scholarly journal minus the university, a sounding board for thinking folk who operate outside the ivory tower. Wired

Neither postpunk zine nor scholarly journal, Hermenaut is, in fact, a bit of both. It reads like a cultural studies seminar being crashed by well-read bohemians who are resolutely unimpressed by mere academic protocol. Call it the slacker Salmagundi. Lingua Franca

Hermenaut is the file mixup of the outré brainiac and the pop culture butterfly. It's for veejays and M.A.'s, grad school dropouts and metalheads with a Wittgenstein fetish one and all. Eye

Very seldom will you find a zine in which the writers are thinking about the world—much less, performing the intellectual's very distinctive and peculiar function, which is thinking-about-how-to-think-about-the-world. A remarkable exception is Hermenaut.In These Times

One radical possibility, these days, is that people might take over the philosophizing from the experts. Hermenaut is working to recapture thinking from the universities. Philosophy News Service

Influence matters more than circulation to magazines of ideas. Despite the Internet's impact, new intellectual magazines, such as Hermenaut, continue to be born on paper. Wilson Quarterly

A readable, independent-minded publication that provides incisive and intelligent commentary on contemporary society's most crucial issues, Hermenaut was one of the few truly indispensable critical forums of the 1990s. It will maintain that reputation into the next century. Invisible City

Written in accessible, whip-smart prose, Hermenaut is a refreshing challenge to the cultural orthodoxy of self-conscious advertising, unexamined hipness, and empty cynicism. Boston Phoenix

In pursuit of an honest way to address the distressed modern person, the editors of Hermenaut use academic exegesis without getting locked into facile journalistic devices. St. Paul Pioneer Press

Hermenaut navigates the seas of interpretation, asking questions to the outskirts of which no one else is willing to draw close. Santa Fe Reporter

Editor's Choice! Hermenaut, one of the brainiest publications in zineland, applies theoretical and philosophical concepts to pop culture with highly amusing results. Factsheet 5

Without taking themselves too seriously, Hermenaut's writers apply some serious thinking to today's cultural wasteland. Too quirky to be a mainstream magazine but too well-produced to be a zine, it's a perfect blend of provocation, thoughtfulness, and entertainment. Library Journal

Hermenaut is one of the snarkiest, most insightful reads east of Chicago's Baffler. Launch

This clever and cutting publication is a vessel for such keen wit, such astute assessments of current trends—both cerebral and utterly superficial—that it renews any decently intelligent reader's faith in the fact that good journalism is not dead. Stimulating on every front. Juxtapoz

Hermenaut is a well-executed pop journal whose writers deserve your attention! Austin Chronicle

The best of the many high-lowbrow zines is Hermenaut. Voice Literary Supplement

Check out a review of Issue 15 in the B.U. Bridge.

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