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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
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- NYTimes Book Review
- Paper Cuts
- Paper Tiger
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- 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
- Conflicto por Botnia: si gana, el primer viaje de Mujica sería a la Argentina
- Brasil advirtió sobre la tesis del "golpe preventivo"
- Honduras, entre filibusteros y mercenarios argentinos
- Los países amazónicos, tras una estrategia común
- Una pareja se coló en una gala de Obama en la Casa Blanca
- China también anuncia que va a reducir su nivel de contaminación
- Dubai no puede pagar sus deudas y hace temblar a los mercados
Le Monde Europe
- 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
- Commission européenne : Michel Barnier chargé du marché intérieur
- Coopération économique au coeur de la visite à Paris de Vladimir Poutine
- Une opération de l'armée allemande en Afghanistan suscite un scandale
- José Manuel Barroso compose la nouvelle Commission européenne
The Washington Post
- New Obama policy bars lobbyists from federal advisory panels
- China says it will cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent by 2020
- War crimes envoy has personal touch
- Gen. McChrystal saying little about delay in Obama's decision on troop increase
- Obama and fellow Democrats at odds about troop increase for Afghanistan
- Obama to attend climate talks in Copenhagen, set goals to reduce emissions
- White House guests include friend and foe
ELPAIS.com – Guerras, Conflictos y Malestar social
- Contra el "prohibido todo"
- El ex embajador británico ante la ONU tilda de "cuestionable" la legitimidad de la invasión de Irak
- El juez Garzón acepta que el PP se persone en el 'caso Faisán' como acusación
- De la Vega pide "desde el afecto" a Haidar que "reconsidere su situación"
- El Gobierno aprueba el proyecto de ley contra el blanqueo de capitales y la financiación del terrorismo
Reuters AlertNet
- More than 1,000 deaths in past week from H1N1-WHO
- World is watching China's climate progress, US says
- Two dead, 50 missing as Bangladesh ferry sinks
- LIBERIA: Breaking breastfeeding myths
- Obama, Australia's Rudd to discuss climate, Afghan
- Commonwealth leaders launch push for climate deal
- UK Afghan troop level satisfactory-navy chief
Bookforum
- 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
- OMNIVORE: France without illusions
- OMNIVORE: A jouney into Africa
