Improving Reading Skills, 4/e & Developing Critical Reading Skills, 5/e
	Deanne Spears
	Student Resources

 

While online reading will probably never take the place of old-fashioned books and magazines, I have sampled a few sites and found them to offer an intriguing variety of interesting essays and articles. Here are a few of my favorites.

City Pages

The online edition a St. Paul-Minneapolis publication

Cybereditions

This wonderful site offers a compendium of articles on politics, music, the arts, book reviews, social issues from periodicals and newspapers all over the world, for example, in addition to the standard American newspapers and magazines, it offers selections from the Jerusalem Post, American Spectator, Mother Jones, Civilization, The Nation, Slate, and dozens of others. Liberals and conservatives and middle-of-the-road types are all represented. The offerings are changed and updated five days a week.

The Onion

The online version of the nation's leading satirical newspaper, which is actually a mock newspaper. The venerable New Yorker magazine in its May 10, 1999 issue, called the print version "the country's most interesting satiric publication" (May 10, 1999)

Salon

An online magazine featuring articles on the arts, culture, politics, and so forth. Very hip and readable.

Slate

an online magazine offering commentary on a variety of issues, especially favored by political wonks)

Wired

An ultrahip online magazine devoted to computer and technology issues, generally of the cutting-edge variety

Utne Reader

This site offers a modified version of this magazine which publishes the best of the alternative press.)

Yahoo! Internet Life

A print magazine with excellent coverage of Web sites on every conceivable subject. A sampling from the July 1999 issue lists sites for soul food, the newly-released movie "South Park," personal finance, travel, sports, music and film reviews, the war in Kosovo, and toons, including one called "Pink Donkey and the Fly". Happy, which you can visit at http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/wpt. The online version has links to every Web address listed in each monthly issue.