CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN'S DIARY

The future of fiction is decentralized, pseudonymous, and cryptographically distributed.

a field guide to slow looking

Writing from the field

Harvesting what really matters in great books. Self-development, psychology, morals and success stories

Bunnicula is a vampire a rabbit who sucks the juice out of vegetables...

I'm an acquired taste. If you don't like me, acquire some taste!

a serial of my life, on and off the road

Read with APS Together. Discover a different way to book club.

Surveying the "forthcoming books" landscape through short reviews.

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

Essays about books, life, ideas

Books, art, music, movies

drawings from nightclubs and warzones

Writer, podcaster

a serialized novella

The editor of the Whitney Review of New Writing and co-editor of Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey.

remains to be seen

Criticism among the Afterlife of Culture.

Criticism, essays, and other odds and ends

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

Culture, Literature, Criticism, Fiction

The Mob Blog

i listen to a lot of music, i like a lot of it, i share it with a lot of you!

books, films, intellectual history, the creative process

A bi-weekly essay on literature

Surveying the contours of the New Sentimental Order

a living archive

Nine Circles +

Essays on culture, philosophy and literature.

"Her life was saved by rock and roll"

Becoming literate is a lifelong task, but it shouldn’t take your entire day.

“The bigots, the hysterics, the destroyers of the self."

radical rethinking of realism, wholly opposed to the creative-industrial complex

fiction, non-fiction, essays, novel excerpts, art criticism, movie reviews, hotel & restaurant reviews, buddhism, interviews, psychoneuroimmunology, sports and more

Ghosts, pictures, movies

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

a footnoted celebration of assorted (counter)cultural detritus

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

HOW TENSE ARE YOU?

Writing by Lily Lynch.

Technology, Religion, Literature, Gossip

Avant-Garde Birdwatching

A weekly email with an essay, links to my work, and recommendations for books and articles I have enjoyed

A heterodox journal of culture, ideas and political economy

The Fitzstack

Secrets and Bombs

cool but rude

fiction craft, publishing demystification, weird books

The best in books, arts, and ideas.

Miami, literary criticism, sports, and random cultural commentary.

From the author of Surveys and Sleeveless (Semiotext(e))

Lullabies for the remaining romantics

the junk shop of history

"The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are." -- Karl Kraus

Reporting and analysis by award-winning independent journalist.

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.

Speculative Fiction | Criticism | Belles lettres | Philosophy

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Intelligence for Thinking People

Some things I saw along the way

This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

Movieshows

Egalitarian socialism in the 21st century. Politics and commentary from a Marx scholar in the rural South.

An emotional scrapbook of the Internet.

Slice-of-life comics by Edith Zimmerman.

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

photographs enthusiasms essays speculation interviews conjecture

Bite-sized book reviews by distinguished and engaging writers, direct to readers‘ in boxes. Editor Ann Kjellberg is a multi-decade veteran of The New York Review of Books and founder of the literary magazine LIttle Star