[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that a half-million dollars does not buy one much of a house in Toronto.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly celebrates the fifth anniversary of her marriage on the Toronto Islands.


• The Dragon's Gaze considers exoplanet fatigue in the news, suggesting Proxima b is about as excited as the media will get.


• Far Outliers looks at the foreign safety zone set up in Nanjing in 1937 as the Japanese approached.


• Language Hat considers the globalization of Latin American writers.


• Language Log examines the linguistics behind "hikikomori".


• The LRB Blog looks at the British political spectrum.


• The Map Room Blog reports on some beautiful letterpress maps.


• Marginal Revolution notes that in Africa, urbanization is not accompanied by economic growth.


• The NYRB Daily shares vintage photographs of Syria's Palmyra.


• Spacing looks at the examples of the Netherlands.


• Window on Eurasia looks at a call to create a unified Russian diaspora lobby in the United States and examines ethnic Russian migration from Tuva.