Arts & Letters Daily

The pick for readers who like their weekend stack heavy on books, ideas and criticism. Arts & Letters Daily has been pointing to essays, book reviews and arts writing across the web since 1998, and its email edition now reaches over 175,000 subscribers. Each post leads with two or three subjects and a teasing excerpt, which makes for odd, rewarding pairings: one November email set the critic George Scialabba beside electroconvulsive therapy. The tone leans academic, and that is the point, because the picks are the kind of serious writing that rarely trends anywhere else.