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Reading Recommendations: Curated recommendations

Resources to help find some good reading materials.

Curated literary sites

Suggested reading links from online sites:

Arts and Letters Daily: The site's motto, "Veritas odit moras," or "Truth hates delay," is from Seneca's version of Oedipus.

Brain Pickings: An inventory of the meaningful life.

The Browser"We aim to help our readers discover the best writing available by recommending articles, interviews and books that are of interest to the intellectually curious reader."

Delanceyplace.com"...a brief daily email with an excerpt or quote we view as interesting or noteworthy, offered with commentary to provide context..."

Electric TypewriterHandpicked reading lists on a variety of subjects.

JSTOR Daily: "An online publication that contextualizes current events with scholarship. Drawing on the richness of JSTOR’s digital library of more than 2,000 academic journals, thousands of monographs, and other materials, JSTOR Daily stories provide background—historical, scientific, literary, political, and otherwise—for understanding our world. All stories contain links to free, publicly accessible research on JSTOR."

Literary Hub: A single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life.

Longreads: Links to journalism and magazine stories from your favorite publications.

Electric Literature publishes essays, criticism and literary news.

Public Domain Review: Dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas – focusing on works now fallen into the public domain.

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