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dispatches from the restless mind of a media junkie
Art/Architecture/Urbanism
Books/Culture
- Bookforum
- Context Magazine
- Conversational Reading
- Critical Mass
- El Clarín’s Revista Ñ
- El País’ Babelia
- First Drafts
- Guardian Book Blog
- Guardian Books
- Jacket Copy
- London Review of Books
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- Moby Lives
- N1BR
- New Statesman Books
- New York Review of Books
- NYTimes Book Review
- 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
- LA Times
- 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
NYC
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
Slate
- Feed has moved
El Clarín
- Vuelta electoral definitiva y con pocas sorpresas en Uruguay
- "El tiempo nos dará la razón, Argentina abrirá fábricas como Botnia"
- A cinco meses del golpe, votan los hondureños en un clima de tensión
- Los favoritos
- Una crisis en la cual el golpismo consiguió todos sus objetivos
- Un grupo neonazi se atribuyó el ataque contra el tren ruso
- Preguntas del senador Obama
Le Monde Europe
- Berlusconi veut "étrangler" les auteurs de films et de livres sur la mafia
- La Russie frappée par un attentat terroriste
- Les six postes-clés de lexécutif européen
- A la Commission, Michel Barnier défendra une économie plus régulée
- Michel Barnier, un "régulateur" qui sera très encadré
- La France étudie la possibilité de vendre le Mistral à la Russie
- Pertes civiles en Afghanistan : un ministre allemand démissionne
The Washington Post
- Global climate talks remain alive, but details are far from settled
- Secret Service takes blame for uninvited couple's access to White House
- All's quiet in race to succeed Kennedy
- Australian leader will visit Obama
- U.N. censure may start more confrontational phase with Iran
- U.S. government delays ban on Internet gambling
- New Obama policy bars lobbyists from federal advisory panels
Reuters AlertNet
- Japan may bring in "green" tax in April-paper
- Australia fans election talk over carbon plan
- U.S. hopeful of breakthrough in Iraq vote deadlock
- FACTBOX-How Obama's Afghan strategy is shaping up
- Commonwealth advances momentum for climate deal
- Saudis claim key mountain win over Yemeni rebels
- INTERVIEW-For Maldives, climate deal is a survival issue
Bookforum
- OMNIVORE: The banality of academic paranoia
- OMNIVORE: Sudden associative celebrity
- OMNIVORE: Zion, shall you not beseech
- OMNIVORE: Ideas in process
- THE DAILY REVIEW: Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard 1905-1930 by Luc Sante
- OMNIVORE: The ongoing tremors of Partition
- OMNIVORE: Civic revolutions in Latin America
