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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
- Una multitud, en el último acto del Frente Amplio en Montevideo
- Más disgustos en el cuartel de Lacalle por los spots de campaña
- "Nuestro objetivo es derrotar a Al-Qaeda y sus aliados extremistas"
- Ahmadinejad llega a Brasil entre expectativas y temores
- Juanita Castro: "La CIA primero me utilizó y luego me dejó caer"
- Ecuador, dispuesto a resignar petróleo si el mundo lo paga
- Masiva marcha contra Ortega en Nicaragua
NYTimes Most Emailed
- Liberty, Equality, Gastronomy: Paris via a 19th-Century Guide
- Op-Ed Columnist: Advice From Grandma
- Op-Ed Columnist: The Pit Bull in the China Shop
- Op-Ed Columnist: Visceral Has Its Value
- Back to Business: Wall St. Finds Profits Again, Now by Reducing Mortgages
- Op-Ed Contributor: Animal, Vegetable, Miserable
- Op-Ed Columnist: An American Catastrophe
The New Yorker
- Ariel Levy: Sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya.
- Sam Shepard: "Indianapolis (Highway 74)"
- Peter Schjeldahl: "1969" at P.S. 1.
- Paul Goldberger: Jean Nouvel and the art of the façade.
- Nancy Franklin: Fox News Channel's latest blowhard.
- Liz Waldner: "Sad Verso of the Sunny ____"
- Lauren Collins: Metamorphosis
Le Monde Europe
- Au "Forum Copenhague", Cohn-Bendit et Bayrou scellent leurs retrouvailles
- Enseignement : comment assurer les cours face à la grippe
- Le président Basescu brigue un second mandat pour "réformer" la Roumanie
- Moi , James Bell, curé catholique marié, ancien prêtre anglican
- La relation Berlin-Varsovie à l'épreuve d'Erika Steinbach
- Cohn-Bendit : "Sarkozy doit s'engager plus clairement sur le climat"
- Un homme qui a étranglé sa femme dans son sommeil acquitté
The Washington Post
- The talk shows
- Senate Democrats vote to bring health bill to floor for debate
- Sunday Take: Divided public complicates Afghanistan decision
- Health bill opponents make most of mammogram advisory
- Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric
- Burris reproved by Senate ethics panel
- Prison holds promise for job-strapped town
Reuters AlertNet
- Mediators report progress in rebel Karabakh talks
- Sudan sentenced children to die over rebel raid -UN
- Brazil should hear Amazon Indians on dam -Sting
- East Antarctic ice began to melt faster in 2006-study
- Irish unions cancel some strikes due to flooding
- Indian PM says not clear who controls Pakistan army
- Saudi troops killed in Yemen rebel clashes-report
