The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/literature Still the gold standard for long-form intellectual criticism. Graduate students learn
cadence, argument, and scholarly swagger here.
Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org Probably the closest contemporary equivalent to an online humanities commons—film,
theory, race, media studies, literary criticism, all happily contaminating each other.
Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org Excellent model for how to write scholarship that still sounds like it was written
by a human being with a pulse.
Literary Hub https://lithub.com More journalistic and fast-moving, but useful for tracking publishing trends, interviews,
excerpts, and literary discourse.
The Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org Especially the interviews archive. A graduate education in writerly neurosis and compositional
process.
n+1 https://www.nplusonemag.com Where theory kids, Marx-curious critics, and cultural pessimists go to sharpen knives.
The Drift https://www.thedriftmag.com Young intellectual energy with a surprising amount of rigor. Good for students trying
to understand where criticism is heading.
The Baffler https://thebaffler.com Savage cultural criticism. Teaches students that academic prose does not have to sound
embalmed.
3:AM Magazine https://www.3ammagazine.com Wonderful for experimental literature, continental theory, obscurities, and intellectual
detours.
The Millions https://themillions.com Good literary journalism and publishing-world awareness without total market brain.
HiLoBrow.com http://hilobrow.com Edited by Josh Glenn of Hermenaut and Lingua Franca infamy.
Theory / Humanities / Cultural Studies
e-flux https://www.e-flux.com Essential for students interested in visual culture, media theory, contemporary art
discourse, archive fever, etc.
JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org A surprisingly useful bridge between scholarly work and accessible humanities writing.
Post45 https://post45.org Vital for contemporary literature, media studies, affect theory, platform culture,
television studies.
Electronic Book Review https://electronicbookreview.com A hidden gem for digital culture, hypertext theory, AI/media discussions, cyberculture
residue.
Archives / Research / Discovery Machines
Internet Archive https://archive.org Every graduate student should learn archival spelunking here immediately.
UbuWeb https://www.ubu.com The outlaw archive of avant-garde culture. Chaotic. Essential.
The Marginalian https://www.themarginalian.org Less scholarly than contemplative, but extraordinarily useful for students learning
associative intellectual thinking.
Bonus “Professional Survival” Sites
The Chronicle of Higher Education https://www.chronicle.com Students should understand the machinery they’re entering.
