A monthly newsletter from a Taiwan-based research site exploring the intersection of pop culture and subcultures. Recent issues are titled monthly reports, and the excerpts here show only headings, so the actual content and depth cannot be judged from this sample.
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Greil Marcus publishes a recurring Real Life Rock Top 10 of music, video and cultural oddities, plus an Ask Greil column answering reader questions about music and culture. Each issue is a personal, essayistic take on concerts, songs and found objects.
A film critic with four decades of experience reviews movies in theaters and on demand, with star ratings and pop culture commentary. Readers get opinionated, well-informed critiques and context about new releases.
BOY CULTURE is a daily-ish culture newsletter by Matthew Rettenmund covering gay history, film, and pop culture, with links, film reviews, and archival retrospectives on figures like early AIDS-era celebrities and pioneering gay adult filmmakers. Readers get a mix of news roundups and personal, well-researched essays on LGBTQ cultural history.
A cultural-criticism newsletter by Laura Fontana, part of NightReview, examining online phenomenology, digital sociology, social media shitstorms and pop culture. Issues offer long-form reportage, such as a two-part investigation into how internet dynamics built the political-media persona of Roberto Vannacci.
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