Political Currents by Ross Barkan

News and views covering America's story from a decidedly anti-partisan perspective.

How American power shapes international politics.

Written for (and by) the insatiably curious. Expand your conceptual vocabulary with new ideas in your inbox 2-3x per week.

Scrawling socialism on walls.

A newsletter about class, news, and more

your flagship web site for my damned posts

I write about the Great Books, classic literature, and the contemporary publishing world.

The future of fiction is decentralized, pseudonymous, and cryptographically distributed.

Cultural and literary essays. Flavour profile: hints of bitterness, notes of saltiness.

Understand the Japanese Psyche with a local English speaker's perspective

Not an island. Editorial assistant at New Statesman. Out every Sunday morning.

A view of baseball history from historian, author, and SABR member Paul White.

literary encounters, local indignities

A near-daily newsletter about books, politics, and the ways we talk about both.

Reflections on writing, creativity, and insights I’ve learned from the recent publication of my debut novel.

drawings from nightclubs and warzones

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

A home away from home. Arguments, thoughts, first drafts.

Looking at the intersection between the new media trends of now and the legacy media trends of yesterday.

One man's commentary on politics, culture and society

A critical inquiry into one’s self, through others. Profiles and interviews with writers and artists about all things writing and art

Politics and culture as though they mattered.

Criticism, essays, etc.

literature & culture

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Sports, Business, Politics, Culture

All politics is local.

Congress is the engine to our democracy that keeps America running. However, little is understood about what goes on inside this beautiful place.

A little Substack for big fiction

For those looking for thoughtful writing on great music.

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

cool but rude

A free cartoon hits your inbox every Tuesday + live videos & stories from my sketchbook that prove being a New Yorker cartoonist & comedian in Manhattan is exactly as unhinged as you'd imagine.

Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.

Will Leitch's weekly free newsletter with an original essay, and links to everything he writes.

The history and politics of monopoly power.