Extramural Reading Project

Magazines and Newspapers

• The New Yorker
• The New York Times (news; left-leaning editorials and op-eds)
• The Wall Street Journal (news, business; right-leaning editorials and op-eds)
• Slate (wide range)
• Salon (wide range; similar to Slate)
• The Economist (news, business, economics, science, culture; centrist)
• The New Republic (politics, economics, literature, etc., slightly left-leaning)
• Reason (libertarian)
• Tablet (Jewish literature and culture)
• Grantland (sports--edited by Bill Simmons)
• The Weekly Standard (right-leaning politics)
• The Nation (left-leaning politics)
• Utne Reader (collects articles from a range of magazines)
• Harvard Business Review
• New York magazine (good profiles---some stuff on the website is lower quality than the magazine)
• The Atlantic (focus on the magazine; stuff on the website is mixed)
• The American Scholar
• The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Higher education) (Access through library proxy for free access.)
• The New York Review of Books (Literature, ideas, politics; left-leaning) (Access through library proxy for free access.)
• Harpers (general-interest)
National Review (politics; right-wing)
• Commentary (politics; right-leaning)
• Dissent (politics; left-leaning)
• Vanity Fair (a variety of things, including some good profiles)
• Foreign Affairs (politics, public policy, economics, international relations; a good mix of views from a wide range of political perspectives)
• The New Statesman (one of the pre-eminent British magazines)
• The Guardian (one of the pre-eminent British newspapers)

Curated Sites with Links to Interesting Articles:

• Andrew Sullivan (politics [across the political spectrum], religion, sexuality [warning, he addresses sensitive topics], economics, literature, culture, etc.)
• Arts & Letters Daily
• Longform.org
• My blog's Interesting Links section.
• 3 Quarks Daily
• Brain Pickings