The Elif Life

FRANZ is dedicated to creative engagement with Franz Kafka's life and work, including the first-ever publication of his complete letters in English.

Off the cuff MJ writing/videos/picts/audio for paid subscribers and an ongoing All Fours Group Chat for everyone (not a book club! A place to talk about your own life.)

How to find and use any story's emotional superstructure

I was born in Zaporizhzhia three years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. What followed was a learning curve. A Ukrainian killjoy with a PhD in Comparative Literature, I teach, curate cultural projects and write about Ukraine's resistance to Russia.

...is hard to master.

The great Iris Murdoch once wrote, "One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." This occasional newsletter aims to celebrate Small Treats and perhaps even be one of them. Thank you for subscribing! xo Buzzy

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

Step into a sanctuary curated by Esmé, featuring guest contributors like R.F. Kuang & Jenny Odell. Each edition presents essays & prompts exploring the beauty/complexity of being alive. Unlock 2 monthly essays & bonus resources with a paid subscription.

News and updates from the author of HEALTH AND SAFETY and FUTURE SEX.

Inconstant essays, nostalgia, big feelings, writing thoughts, food, rage.

Notes from outside the consternation machine

A place to explore the way the short story works.

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Observations, aphorisms, and literary ephemera, from a diffusely overeducated book critic and underemployed lit-mag editor.

Rich conversations with Earth's most buoying and provocative thinkers Questions they've never been asked.

This cultural criticism newsletter is written by an author based in Italy and sent out in both English and Italian.

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

& a search party

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

writing about philosophy, books i've read, other things i've seen or heard or thought about

Where good movies are always news! 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

A twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process, with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.

Edited by essayist Claire Berlinski, this is Substack's top forum for the discussion of international news among readers and writers, around the world, who are concerned about the future of liberal democracy and the gathering storm of global war.

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 2025 it begins 5/31!)

About books, TV, movies, and higher etiquette. Also God sometimes. Also Taylor Swift.

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