A Japanese media newsletter that explores memory, recording and recall, asking how people understand the world and pass it on. Each issue pairs recent research, such as studies on screenshots as external memory and the science of déjà vu, with essayistic and literary references.
Website: https://ki-to-oku.net/
Elfriede Jelinek's newsletter publishes personal essays in German that connect current politics, such as the Hamas attack and rising far-right movements, with historical memory and Walter Benjamin. Issues also reflect on theatre, comedy and language, with some pieces offering English translations.
A reflective travel journal that uses walks through English and Japanese places to explore memory, impermanence, freedom and beauty through a Platonist and continental philosophical lens. Readers get essayistic meditations that pair concrete landscapes such as castles, abbeys and island architecture with thinkers like Fromm and classical Japanese poetry.
An experimental prose newsletter of lyrical, fragmented essays set in Montreal's Parc X and Plateau neighbourhoods, weaving personal walks, Virginia Woolf, Baudelaire and flânerie with reflections on memory and a childhood diary. Readers get literary, associative writing rather than news or practical advice.
Bradley Warshauer's blog and newsletter mixes literary personal essays with reflections on New Orleans life, memory and place. Issues range from vivid, carefully crafted prose about Mardi Gras and a lakeside childhood to essays on the nature of nostalgia.
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