CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN'S DIARY

Out of the shadows and into the deep.

My personal Substack

My name is Ella and I write about books.

Welcome to the Ideas Letter, where heterodox ideas come alive. A project of the Open Society Foundations, The Ideas Letter is published fortnightly.

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

a field guide to slow looking

Firsthand accounts of Israel's occupation of the West Bank.

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

Debut Novelist

Thoughts about books I read, the work of writing and publishing, and life

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

gold toilets & chandeliers

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