Personal essays and poetry by a writer moving between analog and digital life, the ancient and the urgent, and the intimate and the strange. Issues weave everyday scenes, such as buying a chef's knife or riding a New York subway, into reflections on responsibility, perception and fear.
Website: https://letters.lianmsing.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.
Chris Arnade writes essays and photo dispatches from long walks, mostly through America and abroad, mixing reportage with reflection on books and ideas. Recent issues cover de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, the history of the integrated circuit, and updates on his health and travel plans.
A pastor's reflective weekly-style essays linking a church pond's fate to nature, grace and everyday life, each ending in a short prayer. Readers get careful nature writing, personal anecdotes about family and a standard poodle, and gentle theological reflection.
Personal essays on rural life in southern New Hampshire, drawing on the seasons, woods, ponds and memory. Each issue is a reflective piece on topics like a 50th high school reunion, autumn at the pond and an abandoned canoe.
One short email a week with hand-picked newsletters from the index. Free, no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
