Arts & Letters Daily
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Type of site
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web portal and news aggregator |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Slogan(s) |
Veritas odit moras ("Truth hates delay") |
| Website | aldaily.com |
| Alexa rank |
 52,496 (November 2014[update]) |
| Launched | September 28, 1998 |
Arts & Letters Daily is a web portal which links to a diverse array of news stories, features and reviews from across the humanities, each introduced with a short blurb or teaser. The site is owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
According to founder and former editor Denis Dutton, Arts & Letters Daily was inspired by the Drudge Report but was meant to reach "the kinds of people who subscribe to the New York Review of Books, who read Salon and Slate and The New Republic—people interested in ideas". Arts & Letters Daily has in turn been the inspiration for similar "idea based" blogs such as Abbas Raza's 3 Quarks Daily."
Arts & Letters Daily's layout, designed in July 1998 by Dutton, "mimics the 18th century English broadsheets and a 19th century copy of a colonial New Zealand periodical, the Lyttelton Times". Three columns of links dominate the site: Articles of Note, Book Reviews, and Essays/Opinions.
To the left of the main columns is a series of links to other online content providers, as well as a section titled “Nota Bene" (the Latin for "mark well"), which is the site's fourth and final collection of daily links to articles deemed to be of particular interest.
Arts & Letters Daily originated from "Phil-Lit", a mailing list created in 1994 by Denis Dutton and D.G. Myers, which served as a symposium on articles and reviews found on the web. When the list reached eight hundred subscribers, Dutton suggested that the articles be put together on a single webpage.
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