Black Octavo
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
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BBC News
- Labour hails big wins in England as Sunak holds on to Tees Valley victory
- Watch: Key moments from the local elections... in 60 seconds
- Local election results in maps and charts
- Sunak says results 'disappointing' but voters will 'stick with us' at general election
- When is the next general election?
- Curtice: Conservatives remain in deep electoral trouble
- Hainault sword attack victim thanks NHS for saving his life
- Post Office’s expert gave false evidence to court
- Post Office lawyer accused of 'big fat lie'
- Remains of man thought to be hostage found in Israel
El Clarín
- Inhabilitada para ser candidata, María Corina Machado desafía al chavismo y encabeza la campaña de la oposición en Venezuela
- Texas: cierran escuelas, evacuan a la población y advierten que las inundaciones empeorarán tras días de lluvias torrenciales
- Un retratista digno de un rey (pero no de un presidente)
- Una guerra en Europa: Italia también apuesta a cambios militares ante los nuevos escenarios y amenazas bélicas
- Cuándo serán las elecciones presidenciales en Uruguay 2024
- Avanzan las aguas en Brasil: las inundaciones alcanzan el centro de Porto Alegre y el desastre climático ya deja 37 muertos
- En España, Pedro Sánchez se siente víctima de la desinformación y abre el debate: ¿el poder político puede regular a la prensa?
- Turquía interrumpe las relaciones comerciales con Israel por la guerra en Gaza: ¿Qué hay detrás de la medida?
- Biden llama "xenófobos" a Japón e India en su defensa de la inmigración en EE.UU.
- Guerra en Gaza: ya son casi 2.200 las personas arrestadas en las protestas pro palestinas en universidades de Estados Unidos
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
- You can stop the Rwanda raids. Here’s how
- Revealed: ‘Wild West’ for personal data undermines UK human rights
- openDemocracy South American reporter wins prestigious Uruguay press award
- MPs urge action over ‘woeful lack of transparency’ in universities
- UK professor condemns own university over collaboration with oil giant
- ‘Infringing our rights’: Nigerian nurses sue over effort to stem ‘brain drain’
- Nigerian woman faces jail for giving tomato paste bad review on Facebook
- 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
Reuters AlertNet
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Bookforum
- Writers, professors, and academics boycott Columbia University; Lauren Groff on her Florida bookstore and book bans
- 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
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