Arts & Letters Daily is laid out newspaper style with very little graphics. It is packed full of links to current information. The far left-hand column lists links to other sites. The remaining three columns give headlines with links to the full story. The second column lists “Articles of Note”. The third column is for “New Books”. The far right-hand column is titled “Essays and Opinion”. The site is updated daily as the title implies, with new headlines added to the top of the list bumping previous articles down the page. Arts and Letters Daily makes an excellent homepage. It is the perfect jumping off point for any news and information you may wish to access, and delves far deeper than your average news site.
Categories in the Links section are as follows: Breaking News, Newspapers, Nota Bene, Magazines, Book Reviews, Columnists, Favorites, Weblogs, Radio News, Radio Music, Diversions, Classics, and Google/Refdesk. Breaking News includes traditional news sources such as AP, Fox News, and CNN. The Newspapers are from all around the world. Nota Bene Latin for “note well” features an eclectic collection of interesting articles. Magazines includes seventy-nine magazines in many areas of interest listed alphabetically and including titles such as American Conservative, Artforum, Discover, Dissent, Mother Jones, New Scientist, Poets & Writers, Scientific American, Skeptical Inquirer, and Wired just to name a few. Book Reviews is another long and comprehensive list of links to book review sites and book review sections of prominent publications. Choose from a list of seventy-six Columnists to see their latest thoughts. Favorites takes you sites such as Butterflies and Wheels, Drudge Report, Ethics and Policy, Ifeminists, Improbable Research, Opera Critic, Quackwatch, Shakespear Web, Snopes, and so many more.
Webligs will take you to fourty-seven weblogs. Radio News lists links to listen to radio news online. Radio Music does the same, but takes you to music rather than news. Diversions will take you to games, jokes, poetry, and other interesting sites. Classics features another eclectic and interesting set of articles and sites. Google/RefDesk gives links for those who are doing research.
Articles of Note gives headlines and links to stories in an endless variety of publications too voluminous to list including Scientific American, Art News Online, Edge, The L.A. Times, Backstage.com, Economist.com, Orion, Tech Central Station, and The Washington Post.
New Books includes teasers and their corresponding links to great articles about new books from sources such as The New Yorker, Slate, Spiked-Online, The chronicle of Higher Education, and many more.
Essays and Opinion includes blurbs and links to articles varying points of view. Unlike most sites Arts and Letters Daily gives access to opinion pieces from the far left, the far right, everything in between, and some that do not fit any standard political category.
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