IN THE MAGAZINES . . . Weblogs might be nothing more than a embarrassing corner of the Internet's vast slush pile, but here's some hope: they'll lead you to magazines you can read for free. Try these--

His Amazing Achievement What Bush's failure in Iraq means to his critics. [The New York Review of Books]

Macondo What's so special about García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude? [The Chronicle of Higher Education]

Doorways to the Past Explaining the fame of Peru's Machu Picchu.[The New York Times Magazine]

250 Million Downloads Google Earth and the new cartography. [Wired]

Buzzworthy? Another comprehensive review of the iPhone. [Newsweek]