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For reading lovers, this is a must visit site, as starting from newspapers, magazines, essays, books reviews and articles everything you may find at the Arts & Letters Daily
This site is among the sites which provide the most intelligent, articulate and illuminating articles published on the internet. Updated about six times a week, the site provides some of the most interesting reads available on the net. Facility of the site navigation is that at one place you are linked to number of sites or articles of your interest.

People having love to read stuff at the net can log on to the site to read a lot of reading stuff FREE at all.

I personally spent hours to search and realized that you need more time to search and read the stuff at the site.

According to Wikipedia: “Arts & Letters Daily is a web portal owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It features links to a diverse array of high-quality news stories, features and reviews from throughout the online Anglosphere. In this, it has some of the characteristics of a weblog. Access is free, and it receives around 3.7 million page views per month.”

Arts and Letters Daily is included in “Top 100 classic websites” of the internet from PC Magazine

Quotes about the site:

* “Required reading for the global intelligentsia.” - (The New York Times)
* “he online equivalent of what Henry James would have called a “Great, Good Place” - an informal gathering place for public discourse” — (Journalist Charles Wright)
* “Yes, it is essentially a lemonade stand. But it is intended to be the most intellectually attractive lemonade stand in the universe.” — (Founder and Editor Denis Dutton)
* “A lusciously fat, slobbering intellectual’s site” — (Wired)
* “Arts & Letters Daily satisfies your intellectual cravings like an expert sommelier at the swankiest restaurant in town.” — (The Times)
* “The Arts & Letters Daily worldview seems to perceive all truly contrarian opinions and practices, whether in politics or art and literature, as the collective expressions of radical leftists and dippy postmodernists.” — (The Reading Experience)
More about the site from other links:

“Telling people about it, I sometimes say it’s an intellectual Reader’s Digest (except that it doesn’t condense the articles). It sounds easy to produce, but after my first few online visits I realized that putting it together involves imagination, energy, critical judgment and intense curiosity. Denis Dutton, the editor, invented it as a response to cybernetic chaos. He compares the Web to an Australian goldfield, covered with mountains of low-grade ore. Finding the gold on the Web calls for careful sifting. “
Full article linkL:
Robert Fulford’s column about Arts & Letters Daily published at The National Post, January 22, 2002.

Link to the site: Arts & Letters Daily