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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
- Mujica ya piensa en el gabinete y busca que se sumen opositores
- Empresarios, sin temor a otro gobierno de centroizquierda
- Evo y Ahmadinejad ratificaron su alianza estratégica
- Sigue el escándalo por la paternidad de Lugo: apareció un cuarto hijo
- Honduras, un país armado y con un altísimo número de crímenes
- Violencia política en Filipinas: 46 decapitados y acribillados
- Revés para ETA: desarticulan a su brazo armado juvenil
Le Monde Europe
- Paris et Moscou mènent une realpolitik de l'énergie
- Cesare Battisti : "Je pense que je resterai au Brésil"
- Moment de doute pour le chef des conservateurs britanniques
- 4,8 millions de Britanniques dans le fichier ADN
- En Tchétchénie, la violence augmente, selon un rapport
- Le dérapage des comptes publics grecs inquiète les investisseurs internationaux
- Belgique : Yves Leterme nommé officiellement premier ministre
The Washington Post
- Analysis: Obama makes decisions slowly, and with head, not gut
- Bankers making turkeys out of taxpayers
- Obama hails Manmohan Singh, hails India's regional role
- Fewer Americans believe in global warming, poll shows
- In Afghanistan speech, Obama will outline both escalation and exit
- Obama and Singh Hold Joint Press Conference
- Officials: Census worker hanged himself
ELPAIS.com – Guerras, Conflictos y Malestar social
- Israel propone una moratoria limitada en la construcción en las colonias judías
- El asesino confeso de la S-21
- Jamenei pide a la prensa iraní que evite dañar la imagen de sus dirigentes políticos
- Un tribunal de Pakistán procesa a siete hombres por los atentados de Bombay de 2008
- Funcionarios de La Línea de la Concepción cortan el tráfico en la frontera con Gibraltar
OpenDemocracy
- Police tactics at G20 slammed - but will anything change?,
- The real scandal in the hacked climate change e-mails controversy,
- Political crisis deepens as Pakistan faces amnesty deal turmoil,
- Babysteps on the road to Parliamentary reform,
- The waning influence of political Islam in Iraq,
- Dancing with Armenia - the Turkish view,
- Conflict Transformed? The start of a debate ,
Reuters AlertNet
- Canadian reporter in Somalia says she was tortured
- Two journalists kidnapped in Somalia released
- India's PM Singh says assured by U.S. on Pakistan
- Israel announces partial settlement freeze
- Q+A-Obama faces political peril with Afghan policy
- Italy says ready to increase presence in Afghanistan
- Experts scan disease links with Chinese "gene map"
