Substacks recommended by Magic + Loss

Recommended by Magic + Loss

a newsletter and podcast on wellness, 'fitness' and our bodies from a feminist anti patriarchal/anti-racist perspective. sometimes funny, hopefully always useful.

Feminist f*tness

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Rick Wilson’s Substack

Thoughts and observations on the American Crisis.

Smart aleck, also just smart.

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Peter Trachtenberg: Not Dark Yet

Writing about literature, music, politics, ethics, history, and the end of the world. In no particular order.

Apocalypse and beauty, the only topics.

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The Golden Hour: climate, children, mental health

By Anya Kamenetz

The Golden Hour is a newsletter about thriving and caring for others on a rapidly-changing planet.

Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert

This is heart work

Always a gem.

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The Virtual Memories Show News

By Gil Roth

Promoting & preserving art & culture, one conversation at a time

Saving seriousness

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DemocraTorah

By Avraham Bronstein

In the words of Senator Raphael Warnock, democracy is the "political enactment of a religious idea."

Politics and prophecy from my favorite rabbi.

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Everything Is A Wave

By Amanda Guinzburg

Words & Pictures. Shadows & Light.

Soul deliverance in a newsletter.

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The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump

By Mary L Trump

In which we come together to save American democracy, or at least have fun while trying.

Retro

By Seth Abramson

A celebration of music, TV, film, art, video games, books, digital culture, comics, toys, and other pop-culture joys from throughout U.S. history.

Arts & Letters Daily

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

Mess & Noise

By Phoebe Assenza

Mid-career, mid-life & momming

Radical Reports

By Teddy Wilson

Research, Analysis, and Intelligence on the Radical Right.

Know the enemy.

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The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

CultureWag

By JD Heyman

Culture: High, Middle, and Deliciously Low!

Ask E. Jean

By E. Jean Carroll

Tormented? Driven Witless? Whipsawed by Confusion? Ask E. Jean is the longest currently-running advice column in American publishing.

The Snap Forward

By Alex Steffen

You no longer have a choice about whether to live on a planet in crisis. What you can choose is how successfully you do it. Big-picture foresight, practical solutions and personal strategies from acclaimed climate expert Alex Steffen.

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Diagnosing a world in crisis while finding means and strategies for a better, realer, more human future.

Chills, by Lauren Wolfe

Fearless reporting, a behind-the-curtains look at how journalism is made — and an unabashed point of view. Welcome to Chills.

BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

By Carissa Potter

emotional messes & intimate conversations

The full catastrophe, my favorite.

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Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

The LZ Sunday Paper

By Lauren Zalaznick

The most important news about, by, and (mostly) for women, hand-curated by me, for you, every week.

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Jill Filipovic

Politics, women’s rights, foreign affairs, and law

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Dismantling diet culture and anti-fat bias, especially in health, fashion, and parenting. (But non-parents like it too!)

Model Citizen

By Will Wilkinson

Artisanal takes for the discerning take-consumer (and more!) from Will Wilkinson.

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you