The Open Letters is a collection of personal essays and open letters from multiple writers on everyday life, seasons, work and identity. Issues share a reflective, first-person voice that explores transitions and emotional honesty.
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A darkly comic, digressive personal essay newsletter by a writer who roams the world and riffs on travel, geopolitics, and cultural myths with sharp, mordant humour. Readers get long, literary dispatches that blend reportage-style observation with absurdist speculation and self-mockery.
Long-form literary essays and criticism from The Paris Review, covering forgotten novels, literary history and contemporary culture. Readers get close readings and cultural analysis rooted in literature and the arts.
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.
Personal essays that use art, philosophy, literature and pop culture to examine experiences that are hard to put into words, such as talent, desire and love. Readers get reflective, richly referenced writing with a distinct authorial voice.
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