A personal newsletter exploring the quirky histories and everyday oddities of popular culture and consumer life, from Airbnb's shifting business model to the psychology of bargain-hunting. Its essays mix anecdote with light economic reasoning, such as why interest rates reflect lender risk.
Website: https://fieldnotes.katrinagulliver.com
Long-form Italian essays on video games that read them through cultural criticism, myth, nostalgia and climate imagery. Each issue takes a single game, such as Gears of War: E-Day, A Plague Tale: Resonance or Aphelion, and examines what it says about its series, genre or cultural moment.
Stephen Troussé writes witty, essayistic music criticism on bands and their histories, including 2 Tone, Dexys Midnight Runners, Pulp's comeback album More, and Nick Cave's Red Hand Files. Readers get sharp album reviews and cultural commentary that connects pop's past to its present.
A newsletter by Chris Dalla Riva exploring popular music through data, history and cultural analysis, alongside album-listening series and author interviews. Readers get essays on how songs shape language and culture, ranked album reviews, and conversations with music writers.
A research-driven personal newsletter by Sydney Urbanek exploring the intersection of popular music and moving images, currently a long-running multi-part series on Beyoncé's Parkwood Entertainment film output. Readers get detailed, cinephile-style film and music history with a reflective, essayistic voice.
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