Heather Havrilesky answers reader letters about family, friendship, guilt and ambivalence, mixing personal essay with advice. Paid subscribers get one or two long-form columns per week, each opening with a work of art.

Gibor publishes personal divrei Torah tied to the weekly parsha and Jewish holidays, blending memoir, self-reflection and Torah commentary. Each issue also comes as a downloadable PDF and focuses on personal growth, conformity, grief and faith.

A personal newsletter about design, making and tinkering, and how those projects connect with personal and community growth. Issues are first-person essays that move from anecdotes such as taste tests, building experiments and a 3D-printed crane model to reflections on identity and habit.

Rob Brezsny's newsletter offers astrology-flavored essays, horoscopes and excerpts from his books, written in a lyrical, playful and personal voice. Readers get reflective pieces on emotions, spirituality, consciousness and imagined hopeful futures.