Substacks recommended by Best American Essays Newsletter

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Queering Reality is a series for exploring and reshaping the world through a queer lens by Elizabeth Earley, a queer writer, scientist, and ex-christian with magical thinking who is also a mom and Board President at Jaded Ibis Press.

(Mis) Adventures in a Writing Life

By Dorothy Dean Walton

A monthly newsletter on the unexpected obstacles and joys in a writing life

Kyoko’s Substack

By Kyoko Mori

My personal Substack

Open Secrets Magazine

Open Secrets is an online magazine for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep "secret." Contact Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel at opensecretsmag at gmail.com

Air/Light Magazine

We mean to look out expansively from this place rather than to gaze narrowly back at it, to express a West Coast aesthetic, a West Coast sensibility, and direct that lens onto the world.

New Means

By JP

Writing that zooms out. New Means discusses politics in the broadest possible ways, from our neighborhoods to our workplaces to our religious lives to organizing to the ways we collectively think.

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

The Exciting Nightmare: a Series of Essays on Modern Times

By Baron Wormser

A year's worth of thousand-word, topical essays concerning Modern Times.

These 1000-word essays will open your mind.

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olurinatti

By Olayemi Olurin

Olayemi Olurin exploring the issues facing us today

Brilliant thinker, a mind on fire.

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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN'S DIARY

By Christian Lorentzen

Criticism, essays, etc.

The Black Intellect Journal

By Michael Jackson

Today's Most Important Events, Opinions & Topics.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Amazing writing, prompts, wonderful ideas from a beautiful soul

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Thinking about...

By Timothy Snyder

Opening the future by understanding the past.

One of the world's great historians thinking about Ukraine.

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Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

Generous, beautiful, and real.

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Essay This

By Welcome Table Press

Celebrating the essay, in all its forms.

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

The Beinart Notebook

By Peter Beinart

A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

In a tireless pursuit of truth, Heather Cox Richardson shows us why history matters.

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Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.