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Recommended by ARX-Han

The Metropolitan Review

The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.

Book Club from Hell

We read cursed and non-cursed books

Jack BC

I write fiction. I'm publishing drafts for an upcoming novel here, working title 'AD'. Criticism more than welcome. If you want to hear more from me, I've published a novel called Tower, and co-host the Book Club from Hell podcast.

Information Processing - Steve Hsu

For many years I wrote the blog Information Processing on Google's Blogspot. I've recently moved it to Substack.

Requests of Literary Exile

By Hyun Woo Kim

On writing literature in a non-native language

Three Hundred Tang Poems

By Hyun Woo Kim

Chinese poems from the Tang Dynasty in your inbox, every Wednesday

Futurist Letters

By Cairo Smith

A home for the New Wave. Essays and short fiction on tomorrow and the past. Buying exceptional work. Pseudonyms welcome.

L.A.'s Dreamlands

By L.A. Labuschagne

I like my theology practical and my fiction transgressive.

The Camarilla

By Gabriel K. Sinclair

My personal Substack

An intriguing literary theorist and member of the Sidebar Literary Podcast.

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Contarini’s Attic

Odds and ends about things that interest me, mostly literary and historical, frequently Victorian and Edwardian.

Philip’s Substack

By Philip Goff

My personal Substack

Gen X Science Fiction & Futurism

By KMO

Science fiction, AI, reflections on turbulent times.

Salieri Redemption

By Chris Jesu Lee

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

A fantastic and incisive literary blog that combines incisive social commentary with adept psychological analysis of both culture and writers.

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Miles of Writing

By Miles MacNaughton

Writer of flash fiction and short stories. Occasional blogs and commentary on the contemporary literary scene.

miniMAG

By Alex

Short. Intense. Weekly

Great short pieces and poetry.

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Baltic State

By Dan Baltic

Stories, Musings, and Delusions

The author of 'NUTCRANKR,' a hilarious satire about an alienated young poster who posts his way into disaster.

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Tooky's Mag

Gentlemen's Magazine

An entertaining publication and podcast that covers obscure but interesting writers you might otherwise not find.

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Mars Review of Books

By Noah Kumin

The Digital Home of the Mars Review of Books

My favorite contemporary literary magazine active today.

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Dwell by Andrew Boryga

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

THE NIGHT DOES NOT END

By Aaron Gwyn

A newsletter dedicated to the works of Cormac McCarthy.

For fans of Blood Meridian - a true corncob appreciator.

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Leafbox

By LEAFBOX

Interviews with Creatives, Entrepreneurs, Researchers etc with Occasional Essays, and Short Fiction

A great podcast featuring an incredibly broad range of guests.

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oldoldoldoldnew

By Philip Traylen

Extrications and ecstasies.

Cross Current

By Mo_Diggs

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

Heterodox cultural commentary that leans into the syncretic for fresh and interesting takes.

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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN'S DIARY

By Christian Lorentzen

Criticism, essays, etc.

One of my favorite literary critics working today.

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Matt's Newsletter

By Mattp969

For larger socio-political or Magickal thoughts.

Immanent Dissolution

By Udith Dematagoda

Essays on Literature, Philosophy, and Contemporary Culture

Secret Harmonies

By Naben Ruthnum / Nathan Ripley

For Readers of Naben Ruthnum and Nathan Ripley

Hacking State

By Murshak

In search of exploits.

Political Currents by Ross Barkan

This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

A triple threat, Ross is a journalist, novelist and writer with deep analysis of New York politics along with exceptional literary criticism and novels of his own.

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Contra

By Pedro Gonzalez

Lines in the sand.