Most literary magazines focus on the craft of writing and cater to a highly select audience of writers, literary critics, and scholars of literature. In contrast, The Reader is a quarterly literary magazine aimed at the intelligent common reader.Issue 27 focuses on Happiness, and includes work from a number acclaimed writers including Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Tom Paulin.This work publishes work from some of the most exciting new writers. It includes internationally renowned contributors. It is published quarterly. It features new editor.