[Articles, essays and other bits used or referred to by original pieces in the Notebooks. They're cited here as footnotes to ensure as much sourcing as possible.]

• Making the Rich Richer, Richard Rorty / NYT, March 6, 2000
• US War on Terror Shows Promise in the Philippines, James Hookway / WSJ, June 18, 2007
• Renewing American Leadership, Barack Obama / Foreign Affairs, July-August 2007
• Wimbledon Memory Suspended in Time, Christopher Clarey / NYT, June 20, 2005
• The Missing Master, George Vecsey / NYT, January 24, 1983
• McEnroe Tops Bord in 4-Set Wimbledon Final, Neil Amdur / NYT, July 5, 1981
• The Literature of Good Grief, Tom Kuntz / NYT, November 29, 1998
• Theodore G. Bilbo on Richard Wright's “Black Boy”, Pierre Tristam / Candide’s Notebooks

• In Defense of the BBC, Andy McSmith / The Independent, July 20, 2007
• Hostage in a Gaza Hospital, Mona El-Farra / From Gaza, With Love, July 15, 2007
• Setting Sail With America's Swashbuckling Neocons, Johann Hari / UK Independent, July 13, 2007
• This Blogging Business, Krystian Woznicki / Candide’s Notebooks, July 23, 2007
• The Atomic Bazaar, William Langewiesche
• The Surge: A Special Report, Patrick Cockburn / The Independent, August 7, 2007
• The Black Sites, Jane Mayer / TNY, August 13, 2007
• Bush on God in 50 Quotes, Candide’s Notebooks, August 15, 2007
• After 60 Years, Will Pakistan Be Reborn?, Mohsin Hamid / NYT, August 15, 2007

• The War As We Saw It, Buddhika Jayamaha, Wesley D. Smith, Jeremy Roebuck, Omar Mora, Edward Sandmeier, Yance T. Gray and Jermey A. Murphy / NYT, August 19, 2007
• The Vanishing Coalition, Leonard Doyle, Kim Sengupta / UK Independent, August 23, 2007
• Bush: Is the President Imploding?, Andrew Stephen / New Statesman, August 23, 2007
• How the Taliban Funds Its Resistance, Anne Pennketh, Ben Russell / UK Independent August 28, 2007
• The Forgotten Holocaust, Robert Fisk / UK Independent, August 28, 2007
• Will the Democrats Betray Us? Frank Rich / NYT, September 16, 2007
• 2 G.I.'s, Skeptical but Loyal, Die in a Truck Crash in Iraq, David Stout / NYT, September 13, 2007
• Perils of Email, Janet Malcolm / NYR, September 27, 2007

• Where Military Rules Don't Apply, Steve Fairaru / Washington Post, September 20, 2007
• Guards' Shots Not Provoked, Iraq Concludes, Sabrina Tavernise, James Glanz / NYT, September 21, 2007
• How Private Armies Became a $120 Billion Global Industry, Daniel Howden, Leonard Doyle / UK Independent, September 21, 2007
• The Real Story of Baghdad's Bloody Sunday, Kim Sengupta / The Independent, September 21, 2007