A personal essay newsletter by a self-described dilettante exploring aesthetics, fashion and everyday experience, with recent pieces on the pleasure of looking deliberately dumb in clothes and on cycling and urban life. Readers get idiosyncratic cultural criticism written in a literary, self-aware voice.
Website: https://the-dilettante.ghost.io/
Arabian Growth publishes long-form essays on Saudi Arabia's people, culture and economy, drawing on profiles, official reports and data. Issues examine reputation, heritage dress and the cultural sector's own statistics.
A stylist's weekly newsletter on building a considered, expressive wardrobe, mixing client case studies, personal outfit diaries and designer discovery. Readers get practical wardrobe-editing frameworks alongside commentary on fashion culture and consumption.
A podcast-and-newsletter about clothing and fashion, pairing cultural history with reported episodes and guest essays. Issues cover items like balaclavas and handbags, plus a philosophy discussion series.
The Empty Cup is a weekly-ish newsletter of dispatches on attention, combining long interviews with scholars and activists, such as a conversation with historian Anthony Grafton on the liberal arts, and an Indigenous activist on radical attention, with thematic issues like fashion. Readers get essayistic reflections on how attention, study and care are shaped by culture, politics and history.
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