The Elif Life

...is hard to master.

Kaya Genç’s Substack: essays on culture, literature, politics and contemporary art from Turkey

Essays, nostalgia, big feelings, writing thoughts, rage.

Notes from outside the consternation machine

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Head of Writer Relations @Substack

Conversations with fascinating thinkers about becoming more human, trustworthy, and free. Creating deeper, more trusting relationships with others and ourselves.

Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Homebase for The Last Thing I Saw Podcast. Conversations about movies with leading critics and filmmakers. New releases, old favorites, festival highlights, streaming recs.

The person asking a question at the beginning of a Tarot card reading. Or, a newsletter project by Alexander Chee.

Cultural criticism at the intersection of pop culture, the archives and Black womanhood

Claire Berlinski writes about international news and trends, liberal democracy and its discontents, and living in interesting times. Her readers and writers join her in what has become Substack's premier salon for the discussion of global affairs.

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2023 it begins 6/17!)

A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.