Consider the philosopher?
The NYTimes on David Foster Wallace’s undergrad thesis, and “an eye for an eye” is still taken literally in Iran.
Also, irrefutable proof that Christopher Hitchens is the Grinch.
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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
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- Sp!ked review of books
- Telegraph Culture Section
- The Elegant Variation
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- Three Percent
- Times Literary Supplement
General places of interest
- ALDaily
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- Boing Boing
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- Boston Globe Ideas Section
- Cabinet
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- The Rest is Noise (Alex Ross)
- The Smart Set
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Music
NYC
Politics
- Activate
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- Al Jazeera English
- Der Spiegel International
- Dissent
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- 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
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BBC News
- US secretly sends long-range missiles to Ukraine
- Labour pledges to renationalise most rail services within first term
- One-word Ofsted grades should stay, says government
- Arizona indicts Trump allies over fake elector scheme
- Girl arrested after teachers and pupil injured in school stabbing
- BBC Proms to feature disco night and Florence + The Machine
- Spain's PM halts public duties as wife faces inquiry
- Hunt defends job cuts to increase defence spending
- Watch: How runaway horses caused chaos in London
- LGBT veterans memorial: ‘We're not a dirty secret’
El Clarín
- Hamas publicó un video de un rehén con el brazo amputado y su familia rogó: "Sé fuerte para sobrevivir"
- En Tennessee quieren permitir que los maestros lleven armas ocultas a la escuela y estallan las protestas
- Un escándalo sexual y denuncias de violación destruyen la carrera de un histórico líder político de Irlanda del Norte
- Pedro Sánchez, el conductor de una carrera política llena de giros inesperados en España
- ¿Qué pasará en España si el jefe de Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, presenta la renuncia?
- "Es desolador": el exceso de fábricas de autos en desuso en China
- Arrestaron en Francia a un adolescente radicalizado que quería atentar durante los Juegos Olímpicos de París
- Detuvieron a una adolescente por apuñalar a dos profesores y a un alumno en una escuela de Gales
- La guerra: Ucrania ataca infraestructuras energéticas en Rusia a cientos de kilómetros de la frontera
- España: Pedro Sánchez dice que va a "reflexionar" sobre una eventual renuncia por una investigación contra su esposa
NYTimes Most Emailed
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The New Yorker
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Le Monde Europe
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The Washington Post
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ELPAIS.com – Guerras, Conflictos y Malestar social
- Un periodista que viajó a Milán para cubrir el Valencia-Atalanta, positivo por coronavirus
- Mapa de la expansión y claves para entender el coronavirus de Wuhan
- El turismo italiano se resiente; España mira expectante
- “La magnitud del problema del coronavirus no será diferente a una gripe”
- Seis italianos encerrados por partida doble
- Trump nombra al vicepresidente Pence a cargo de la crisis del coronavirus
- El coronavirus de Wuhan | Japón cerrará todos sus centros escolares hasta fin de marzo
- El Gobierno salva el primer escollo de los Presupuestos gracias a ERC
- La mesa de diálogo se reunirá mensualmente y los acuerdos serán “en el marco de la seguridad jurídica”
- Así avanzan las encuestas en Galicia y País Vasco
OpenDemocracy
- Threat of Israel-Iran war fades – but danger is unchanged for Gazans
- The fate of LGBTIQ+ Ghanaians is in the hands of a court they don’t trust
- Cubans face endless misery amid dire food and power shortages
- From America with cash: Right-wing groups want to end abortion in the UK
- ‘It’s a trap’: LGBTIQ+ Ugandans wary of court ruling on right to healthcare
- Government admits it broke law to allow gamebird shooting
- Labour in ‘cash for access’ scandal over meetings with £150k donor
- Trump has just hung an albatross around his neck – abortion
- Do we really need a Global Commission on Modern Slavery?
- Academics call for transparency over university funding
Reuters AlertNet
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Bookforum
- Remembering literary critic Helen Vendler; student journalists covering protests at Columbia
- Writers withdraw from the PEN Awards and World Voices festival; Anne Carson on her new book
- Writers discuss abortion at Brooklyn Public Library event; leaked New York Times memo on Gaza coverage
- Spring 2024
- Justin Taylor’s novel takes on the celebrity memoir
- Helen Oyeyemi’s story within a story within a story
- An English novelist’s art of getting by
- How Keith Haring got his halo
- What Aaron Bushnell’s death says about power, protest, and pathology
- Lucas Rijneveld’s novel takes Nabokov to the farm
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