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dispatches from the restless mind of a media junkie
Art/Architecture/Urbanism
- Animal
- Archinect
- ArtCal
- Artforum
- Bidoun
- BLDGBLOG
- Freize
- Life Without Buildings
- Pinakothek (Luc Sante)
- Rhizome
- The Moment
- UBUWeb
- We Make Money Not Art
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
- 3 Quarks Daily
- Edge
- Frontal Cortex (Jonah Lehrer)
- Human Nature – William Saletan
- Kevin Kelly
- New Scientist
- Seed Magazine
- Wired Science
Slate
- Cannes 2013: «Le Dernier des injustes» de Claude Lanzmann, un grand film d'Histoire
- La check-list de Cannes 2013, jour 5: Nouvelle idole et anciennes stars
- Les fascinants rochers roulants de la surface de la Lune
- Cannes 2013: Le cinéma, une affaire de couples
- Cannes 2013: Jimmy P, la psychothérapie passionnante d’un Indien des plaines
- Cannes 2013: Revoir «La Grande Bouffe» 40 ans après le scandale
- Le Shangri-La, le paradis de Philippe Labbé
El Clarín
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NYTimes Most Emailed
- Say Hello to the 100 Trillion Bacteria That Make Up Your Microbiome
- The Health Toll of Immigration
- Op-Ed Columnist: Without Water, Revolution
- For Gay Men, a Fear That Feels Familiar
- Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market
- Well: The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
- At I.R.S., Unprepared Office Seemed Unclear About the Rules
The New Yorker
- The Spreading Consequences of Syria’s Civil War
- Weekend Reading: Internet Crime Sleuths, Celebrity Psychics, Eurovision’s Hope
- The Real Girl in the Blue Beret
- Backblogged: Our Five Favorite Sentences of the Week
- The “Office” Finale
- Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Cell-Phone Smashing of 2013
- The Letters of Italo Calvino, Day V
Le Monde Europe
- L'été risque d'aggraver la situation des réfugiés syriens
- Cameron appelle les dirigeants de paradis fiscaux à coopérer
- Royal juge que l'aéroport de Notre-Dame-des-Landes "sera très difficile à faire"
- Egypte : le président Morsi exclut de négocier pour libérer les policiers enlevés
- "Inside Llewyn Davis" : la bouffée d'air frais des frères Coen
- Mariage pour tous : "on ne pourra pas démarier ou désadopter", selon NKM
- Menaces contre un lycée du Bas-Rhin : un jeune en garde à vue
The Washington Post
- White House to work with both sides on gun control measure
- Barbour: Obama's policies a 'threat' to economic future
- White House seeks to reconnect with young voters
- Who would lead the Democratic National Committee?
- House GOP offers new stopgap spending measure
- EPA chief Lisa Jackson perpetually on Capitol Hill hot seat
- 'Wisconsin 14' group of Democratic senators returns, greeted by thousands at Capitol
OpenDemocracy
- Two notions of liberty revisited - or how to disentangle Liberty and Slavery
- Nigel Farage, the Scottish Debate and the Future of Europe
- Dying and killing, killing and dying
- Russia's paedophile hunters
- The British legal profession has a duty to help ensure justice for all
- Europe’s seven most endangered species of monuments and sites
- Spain’s attacks on fighting back
Reuters AlertNet
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