The most sophisticated human magazine on the planet.

There is often a fine line between fiction and non-fiction. The magazine tells stories from the deepest human perspective. Sometimes an article will make me feel uncomfortable because it gets too close to home, but that's what makes it real. I can identify with some of the feelings/emotions the characters/writers have about their lives. I love the Sunbeams page. Those quotes are bits of wisdom I can carry and use when I feel the urge to spout some profound thoughts on my friends and co-workers. There's no advertising, so we're not subjected to that! I've learned things in the Sun that I have seen no where else. I like the interviews the best and the poetry the least, even though I love poetry. I would like to see more humor and more interviews with women.

Update: As I said in my earlier review, this magazine makes me think and it makes me feel. The Sun is a literary magazine: interviews, short stories, first-person essays, poetry, photography, a page of quotations. Each issue is dedicated to a theme of sorts. The issue I just finished is April 2003. After reading the interview with Timothy Conway, a theologian of sorts, I thought more about my own faith and how much I'd like to learn more about Eastern religions. He made me think about God, my image of God and what/who God is in the universe.
Another recent issue was devoted to illegal drugs with an interview with a man who spent over 10 years studying illegal drug trafficking. The essays/articles were personal forays into the life of an addict, or someone living with an addict.
I remember a story once about a man who took a leisurely walk with his son and his dog, out in the country. The contrast between the first 95% of the story painting an idyllic setting and the end where he shoots the man who tries to take away his dog, was shocking.
Most of the stories in The Sun are about the human condition -- people talking about their loneliness, fear, habits, relationships, experiences from their past, their thoughts and feelings.
One story was by a woman who posed as a poor person for a year and she got jobs waitressing, cleaning, cooking, etc., and she told her story from a vantage point we don't often get.
The lack of advertising allows the editor to print stories about subjects that might bristle some advertisers pocketbooks. Without that pressure, The Sun is free to print anything.
The magazine is professionally edited and much thought is put into choosing the right stories to match the month's theme.
If you want to get inside somebody's head or learn about the goings-on in the underbelly of other countries, or even our own, read The Sun. You may be shocked, surprised and enlightened.