A personal essay newsletter where the writer reflects on illusion, escapism and the pull of phone algorithms, using allegory like Plato's cave. Also offers occasional short stories and musings on life and the universe.
Website: https://jacewrites.com/
Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
Personal essays that use art, philosophy, literature and pop culture to examine experiences that are hard to put into words, such as talent, desire and love. Readers get reflective, richly referenced writing with a distinct authorial voice.
Christina Larocco writes personal and historical essays that braid family stories with ideas from history, such as the myth of individual genius and the cultural origins of ideas. Readers get reflective, well-researched essays that connect everyday life to larger questions about meaning, creativity and mortality.
Mezza Riga is an Italian literary-journalism newsletter about tennis, publishing portraits, reportage, essays and personal pieces. Each issue offers long-form writing on the sport's people, objects and culture, including its obsessions and its spectacle.
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