I read The Sun for years and enjoyed much of it until one day I noticed how I was feeling sad when I read so much of what this magazine printed about the misery of life. The mass media already has misery covered in their agenda. Let me know if Sy the publisher has decided to promote more positivity in this magazine and I'll start reading it again. Oh, and also, did he ever include more women writers yet?

The Sun Magazine has filled me with so much compassion for people i never knew i had. I moved to NY from the UK and i found this wonderful publication on a whim as i was browsing through shelves at my local universal news store.

I immediately subscribed, I have had every issue since ive been in NY, so its a personal thing for me.

The stories are wonderful, the poetry is fantastic, the 'readers write' section is absolutely stunning and 'sunbeams' is without doubt the best end to a magazine there could ever be.

Thankyou The Sun. I feel very lucky to have found you!

I have read many magazines, and they captured my attention for a few pages at best. Then I read an issue of the Sun sometime around the year 2000, and I was captivated. I read it cover to cover, and have been subscribing ever since. The other reviewers do an excellent job describing the format; I simply want to add my praise.

Sy Safransky's literary magazine is a monthly source of interesting fiction, poetry, photography, essays, memoirs and true stories, including a featured monthly interview. In black and white, with no advertisements (save in-house promotions), two years ago I would have given The Sun five stars, certainly, when I first subscribed and for years afterwards. I anxiously awaited each month's copy, which I read from cover to cover. The quality of writing is superior, the subjects topical and relevant and Safransky's devotion to this endeavor admirable. However, over the last two years I haven't been able to sustain the same level of interest, a fact which may have more to do with my reading preferences than the magazine. After eight years, I am sensing a lack of innovation in the stories. But for anyone who has not yet discovered The Sun, this format is refreshing, the concerns of the common man and an interest in our society and the world a breath of fresh air.

Another very popular feature is "Reader's Write", each month introducing a different topic, where readers are encouraged to send in their personal stories. Often this feature is the most provocative segment of the magazine, slices of everyday life without literary pretensions. Most, but not all, issues have a page of Safransky's personal notes, insights into the thinking of the man behind the scenes and a page of "Sunbeams", quotes relevant to each issue, also submitted by readers. Although the magazine is sometimes criticized in Letters to the Editor for its preoccupation with problems in the modern world, this is one of the few venues where readers and writers have such freedom of expression, the commonality of difficulties often a bridge to understanding. Beset on all sides by intrusive advertising, disguised agendas and the pandering to self-indulgence, The Sun's conscientious participation in society, fostering more fulfilling lives, is a forum that should be enthusiastically supported. Luan Gaines/ 2005.

You will find this quote on the first page inside the front cover of every issue of this wonderful periodical. I savor every page of each issue I recieve. The photography is brilliant and thought-provoking. The short stories and poems are amazing. It sheds light into places where we have all been, but at a different angle. It shows a new perspective to things normal people endure and experience everyday. I absolutely love this magazine.