![]() ![]() When I consider that only a year ago I was struggling with my first windows-based computer and using a mouse for the first time, I felt that I had finally "arrived" in Cyberworld. This process took less than five minutes. Through A&L Daily I got into the on-line Washington Post, did a quick search, and presto! There was the Appleby review. The Joyce Appleby review of Dutch had been sent to me for transmission to the list, without any indication of its publication date in the Washington Post. The site is owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Arts & Letters Daily is a web portal which links to news stories, features, and reviews from across the humanities. (One DOES have a life!) Recently I used it for my work as H-Scholar editor. Media & Internet District of Columbia, United States <25 Employees. I now read more selectively and less frequently. ![]() When I first began using the site, I became mesmerized- reading article after article. At the top of the Monday, October 11 issue (a print-out of which I happen to have before me) are links to articles or reviews about Milovan Djilas, Colette, a newly-discovered Beethoven quartet, Paul Kurtz, the poor sale of foreign fiction in the United States, and Charles Rosen's thoughts about piano artistry, to name only a few. The central section of the home page consists of annotated links to over 100 articles that the editor deems especially interesting or timely. Savor drifting through this record-setting Sunday puzzle by Sam Ezersky. What would I do without the Guardian, which (for example) continued to report on the Ladbroke Grove train wreck long after American newspapers had lost interest in the story, and which offers a perspective quite different from my local paper, the San Francisco Chronicle. I've "bookmarked" the ones I use frequently: the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, and the Observer/Guardian. Some of them require first-time readers to register, after which they can be read directly. Jane Bennett, Janet Malcolm, and More For the philosopher Jane Bennett, stuff has agency. Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate Daily aggregation of news and reviews covering literature, criticism, philosophy, theory, books. 'Apocalyptic Pulsings,' 'Unnatural Peril,' and More Jeff Sharlet’s America is a world of apocalyptic pulsings and unnatural peril. Published Monday through Saturday and updated each day, it consists of an attractively designed home page with links to fifteen newspapers, nine news services, three news magazines, and about seventy journals, magazines, and book reviews. Remembering Tran Our longtime managing editor, Tran Huu Dung, died earlier this week. The brain child of New Zealander Denis Dutton, it is a gateway to on-line newspapers, news services, news magazines, and journals all over the world. Indeed, my only criticism of the site IS its addictiveness. Earlier this year Barbara Bell recommended the A&L Daily site. I thought I would start the ball rolling with a review of one of my favorites, Arts and Letters Daily. H-Scholar subscribers have been invited to review websites. ![]()
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