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Dr. Paglen, I Presume?

• January 26, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Books/Culture
Tags: black world, book culture, Brooklyn Rail, geography, pentagon, Trevor Paglen


Consider the philosopher?

• December 14, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Other
Tags: book culture, David Foster Wallace, media roundup


On Poetry and Politics

• November 24, 2008 • 1 Comment

Posted in Books/Culture
Tags: book culture, interwar France, Paulhan, Politics, theory


Finalists announced for German Book Prize

• October 2, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Books/Culture
Tags: book culture, German Book Prize, Germany, Sherko Fatah, The Dark Ship


99 Problems

• September 28, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Books/Culture, Uncategorized
Tags: book culture, New York, Politics, race


What I’ve been reading lately…

• September 20, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Politics
Tags: book culture, journalism


Is Anthony Zuiker Making Us Stupid?

• September 9, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Books/Culture
Tags: book culture


New Pamuk Novel Debuts in Turkey

• September 8, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Books/Culture
Tags: book culture, Pamuk, publishing, Turkey


Bolaño’s Hazy Fiction

• August 28, 2008 • 4 Comments

Posted in Books/Culture
Tags: Bolaño, book culture, Latin America


How Beautiful It Is…

• August 24, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Books/Culture
Tags: book culture, criticism


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    • Pinakothek (Luc Sante)
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    • The Moment
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    • We Make Money Not Art
  • Books/Culture

    • Bookforum
    • Context Magazine
    • Conversational Reading
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    • El Clarín’s Revista Ñ
    • El País’ Babelia
    • First Drafts
    • Guardian Book Blog
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    • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
    • Moby Lives
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    • Paper Cuts
    • Paper Tiger
    • Powell’s Review-A-Day
    • Quarterly Conversation
    • Second Pass
    • Sentences
    • Sp!ked review of books
    • Telegraph Culture Section
    • The Elegant Variation
    • The Millions
    • The New Yorker
    • The New Yorker’s Book Bench
    • Three Percent
    • Times Literary Supplement
  • General places of interest

    • ALDaily
    • AlterNet
    • Atlantic Online
    • Boing Boing
    • BOMB
    • Boston Globe Ideas Section
    • Cabinet
    • Intellectual Affairs
    • James Wolcott’s Vanity Fair blog
    • Kottke.org
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    • More Intelligent Life
    • net critique
    • New York Magazine
    • Prospect
    • Sign & Sight
    • Slant
    • Slate
    • The Awl
    • The Morning News
    • The Rest is Noise (Alex Ross)
    • The Smart Set
    • Virginia Quarterly Review
  • Music

    • Brooklyn Vegan
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    • Prefix
    • Sasha Frere-Jones
    • The A.V. Club
    • Tiny Mix Tapes
    • WFMU
  • NYC

    • Brownstoner
    • Curbed
    • Flavorpill NYC
    • Gothamist
    • NYTimes Ft. Greene Local blog
  • Politics

    • Activate
    • Afuera y Adentro
    • Al Jazeera English
    • Der Spiegel International
    • Dissent
    • Fact Checker
    • Foreign Policy: Passport
    • Gallup Daily
    • GlobalPost
    • Huffington Post
    • Interesting Times (George Packer’s blog)
    • La Plaza- LA Times’ Latin America blog
    • Mama Said Wonk You Out (Ezra Klein)
    • Media Matters
    • Net.Effect
    • Opendemocracy
    • Politico
    • Real Clear Politics
    • Talking Points Memo
    • The Daily Beast
    • The Lede
    • The Nation
    • The New Republic
    • Think Tank (Steve Coll)
    • Truth Out
  • Science

    • 3 Quarks Daily
    • Edge
    • Frontal Cortex (Jonah Lehrer)
    • Human Nature – William Saletan
    • Kevin Kelly
    • New Scientist
    • Seed Magazine
    • Wired Science
  • Recent Posts

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    • Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno
    • Here’s to You, Michael Robinson
    • Cranioklepty

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